Recipes
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THREE CHEESE MOLD
I'A teaspoon gelatin
‘A cup cool water
2 tablespoons grated onion
*/» cup sour cream
'A cup blue cheese
'A cup shredded cheddar
'h cup cottage cheese
‘A teaspoon Worcestershire
sauce
'A teaspoon powdered garlic,
not garlic salt
Sprinkle gelatin over cool
water. Allow particles to soften
and absorb water for five minutes.
In food processor, mix three
cheeses until blended. Add and
process to combine grated onion,
sour cream, Worcestershire sauce,
garlic, and gelatin. Line a round,
two-cup mold (I use a glass bowl)
with clear plasdc wrap. Spray
wrap lightly with cooking spray.
Pack in cheese mixture and chill
overnight Unmold by inverting
bowl and removing plastic wrap.
Sprinkle with chopped parsley.
Serve with crudites: zucchini
strips, carrot sticks, fresh
mushrooms, cherry tomatoes,
broccoli, and cauliflower floretts
(all grown in New Jersey, of
course).
Good things about this recipe:
• Cheese mold may be prepared
several days ahead if stewed in a
plastic bag in mold.
• Vegetables may be prepped in
mnming or purchased already pre
pared from market.
•The platter is easy to assemble:
put cheese mold in center (rounded
side up) and surround with cru
dites, garnish edges of plate with
parsley sprigs and radichio tuck
edc under edge of crudites.
Can be assembled fast at last
minute and looks like you’ve real
ly worked hard on this dressy dish.
Prep time: cheese mold is 15-20
minutes. Crudites—prep veggies
30 minutes; purchased crudites 5
minutes to arrange on plate.
Serves 6-10.
/ love Lancaster Farming. I’m
a cook, mostly from scratch. 1 col
lect antique cookbooks and old
kitchen tools and use them all. I
garden and cook out of the garden
all summer. Also raise fancy dayli
lies (5,000 plus plants) and exotic
hostas.
Karen Kinnane
Pompton Plains, NJ
RICH
BUTTERMILK WAFFLES
2 cups all-puipose flour
'/> teaspoon salt
3 tablespoons granulated sugar
I'A teaspoon baking soda
VA cups buttermilk or sour
cream
2 large eggs, separated
4 tablespoons butter, melted
1 teaspoon vanilla '
Brush waffle iron with oil or
spray with non-stick spray and
preheat.
Silt flour, salt, sugar, and baking
soda into large bowl.
Mix buttermilk and egg yolks,
stir in butter and vanilla.
Beat egg whites until soft peaks
form. Mix milk mixture into the
dry ingredients, fold in beaten egg
whites.
Ladle mixture on to prepared
waffle iron and cook until golden
for 3 to 5 minutes until done.
Serve immediately with maple
syrup, syrup with nuts, strawber
ries, or mixed fruit topped with
whipped cream, etc.
Happy eating!
My grandchildren love these.
Betty Light
Lebanon
Wrap Up June Dairy
BAKED HAM SLICES IN
MILK AND BROWN SUGAR
1 teaspoon powdered mustard
4-6 tablespoons brown sugar
1 teaspoon allspice
'/«teaspoon black pepper
2 cups milk or to cover
Lay ham in casserole dish.
Sprinkle ham with mustard and
brown sugar. Add allspice and
pepper. Pour in enough milk to
barely cover ham. Bake, covered,
at 325 degrees for one hour. Check
and add more milk if necessary.
My husband LaKee and I live on
a small dairy farm in Greencastle.
We like to milk about 50 cows
and we also rent a neighboring
farm.
There are two daughters at
home to help with the work, but a
third daughter comes home to help
out on her days off. Our oldest
daughter is married and living in
Lancaster.
Linda Christman
Greencastle
SUN Princess Reigns In Four Counties
BEAVERTOWN (Snyder Co.)
Jennifer McWilliams, daugh
ter of Lester and Barb
McWilliams from Beavertown,
was crowned the 1999 SUN Area
Dairy Princess by outgoing dairy
princess Lisa Heimbach. Leslie
Kenamond, daughter of John
and Nancy Kenamond of
Mifflinburg, was named first
alternate princess. Sandy
Opdyke, daughter of Charles
and Ann Opdyke of McClure,
was elected second alternate
princess.
The SUN Area Dairy
Princess Pageant was held
Saturday evening June 12 at the
Susquehanna Valley Mall in
Selinsgrove. “SUN” Areas
include Snyder, Union,
Northumberland and Moutour
counties. The Boscov store in the
Susquehanna Valley Mall spon
sored Ag Dairy Days with the
help of the SUN Area Dairy
Princess Promotion Committee
and local businesses.
The 25th Anniversary Dairy
Princess Pageant began with
Dawn Marie of Big Country
Radio serving as the master of
ceremonies. This year the SUN
Area Dairy Princess promotion
committee celebrated 25 strong
years of promoting the dairy
industry. They honored all the
past princesses at the pageant.
This year 11 dairy maids,
Christina Brosious, Sarah
Erdley, Brittany Fry, Selena
Hollenbach, Tina Hollenbach,
Melissa McWilliams, Brittany
Rice, Tara Rice, Amanda
Shaffer, Lad Shirey, and
Corinda Varner participated.
They nine dairy miss partici
pants are; Amanda Hauck,
Raquel Hauck, Dawn Heimbach,
Valerie Hoover, Jessica Kessler,
Tanya Rice, Jennifer Waite,
Makenzie Walters, and Emily
Weller. The 1998 Pennsylvania
Alternate Dairy Princess Megan
Myers from Franklin County
joined in Saturday evening’s
event.
All of the young ladies partic
ipated in a fashion review, with
commentary by Jane Hawn,
public relations manager at
Boscov’s. Nathan Sanders pro
vided musical entertainment.
COCONUT CREAM
PUDDING
I'A cups sugar
V< cup com starch
3 cups milk
4 eggs, separated
1 cup coconut
1 teaspoon vanilla
In saucepan, combine 3 /« cup
sugar and com starch. Stir in milk.
Cook and stir over medium heat
until thickened. Cook and stir 2
minutes more. Remove from heat.
Beat egg yolks, stir in 1 cup hot
milk, return to pan. Cook and stir
over medium heat until gently
boiling. Cook and stir 2 minutes.
Remove from heat. Cool to hike
warm, stir in coconut and vanilla.
Pour in heat proof 2-quart bowl.
Beat egg whites until stiff, gradu
ally add remaining sugar, beat
until stiff. Spread over pudding,
scaling edges. Bake at 350 degrees
for 10-15 minutes or until top mer
ingue is golden.
Delicious! This is our favorite
pudding. It’s easy and quick to
prepare.
Mrs. Joel Weaver
East Earl
Harold Holt, retired extension
agent, presented this year’s
Dairy of Distinction Award to
Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Shaffer of
Port Treverton.
The 25th annual Ag Dairy
Days was filled with fun and
excitement for all ages. On
Thursday, June 10, a ceremony
was held to honor local women
and men over the age of 65 who
have been active in agriculture
over the years. Country Legend
provided musical entertainment
and Eager-Beaver 4-H Club sold
milkshakes.
Friday evening, June 11 a
seven-foot-tall giant ice cream
sundae was built in the Rostov's
Court. Turkey Hill Dairies of
Conestoga, furnished 138 gal
lons of premium vanilla ice
cream, 10 gallons of chocolate
sauce, 25 pounds of pecans, and
5 gallons of strawberries.
Contestants, FFA members from
Middleburg, Mifflinburg,
Selinsgrove, and West Snyder
High Schools, Dairy Maids,
Dairy Misses, and the SUN Area
Dairy Princess Committee
dipped and served the public
free ice cream sundaes.
Approximately 1,500 sundaes
were served.
Saturday, June 12 was a day
full of fun-filled events. The pub
lic got to participate in a petting
zoo showing them different
breeds of dairy animals. A
“celebrity cow milking contest”
was held with volunteer cow
milkers from local businesses.
Ard’s Farm Market in
Lewisburg, and Northern
Central Bank sponsored a
cheese tasting event. The
Pennsylvania Holstein
Association gave out samples of
Pennsylvania milk punch.
Elaine’s Little Barnyard provid
ed a variety of baby farm ani
mals such as turkeys, pigs,
ducks, and goats. An all-you-can
eat Scooper Bowl was presented
by Swineford National Bank.
MILK
Month Celebration
COCONUT DESSERT
. 60 Ritz crackers
'/ pound butter, melted
2 packages inStand coconut
cream pudding
IVi cups milk
2 quarts vanilla ice cream,
softened
Cool Whip
Mix together crackers and butter
to make crumbs. Put crumbs in
bottom of oblong pan, reserving
some for top. Mix together pud
ding, milk, and ice cream, and pom
over crumbs. Refrigerate until set
When set, spread whipped topping
over top. Sprinkle with reserved
crumbs.
This is our favorite dessert
recipe. It is quick and simple to
prepare. We live on a dairy farm.
My husband and I are farming for
a year now and we really enjoy our
work. We milk about 60 cows and
have SO heifers.
We became first lime parents
four weeks ago to a little boy
named Clayton Steve. Since then
I'm glad for quick recipes.
Ivan and Esther Mae Sensenig
Narvon
SUN Area dairy promoters include, from left, Leplie Kena
mond, first alternate; Dairy Princess Jennifer McWilliams.
Lisa Heimbaeh, outgoing dairy princess, and Sandy
Opdyke, second alternate.
SUN Area dairy maida Include, front from left, Amanda
Shaffer, Brittany Rice, Melissa McWilliams, and Laci Shirey.
Back, from left, ate Tina Hollenbach, Corinda Varner, Sele
na Hollenbach, and Brittany Fry.
Visit Butterfly House
HERSHEY (Dauphin Co.)
Mote than 300 butterflies repre
senting North American species is
displayed at the Butterfly House at
Hetshey Gardens.
The Butterfly House is open dai
ly, weather permitting, from now
through Sept. 18. Hours are 9 a.m.
to 6 p.m.
V >
ICE CREAM PUDDING
Line a cake pan with
17] package cylinders of Ritz
crackers, crushed, mixed with
Vj - 3 /« stick butter.
Beat together:
17i cups milk
2 small packages vanilla instant
pudding
Beat in:
1 quart vanilla ice cream
Fold in:
1 package of whipped Dream
Whip
Place mixture on top of cracker
crust. Garnish with marashino
cherries. Freeze.
My husband and boys, Aaron, 8,
and Jared, 6, live on a farm in
Snyder County, where we raise
replacement dairy heifers. The
boys love living on a farm and are
lookingforwardfor the first time to
showing their heifers at the Beaver
Fair in September.
Butterfly gardening will be
taught every Saturday morning at
11 a.m.
Admission to Hetshey Gardens
including the Butterfly House is $5
for adults; $4.50 seniors 62+;
$230 youths 3-15; children under
3 are free.
For more information, call (717)
534-3492.
Irene Harris
Middicburg