88-Umcaster Farming, Saturday, September 4, 1999
If you are looking for a recipe but can’t find it, send
your recipe request to Lou Ann Good, Cook’s Question
Corner, in care of Lancaster Farming, P.O. Box 609, Eph
rata, PA 17522. There’s no need to send an SASE. If we re
ceive an answer to your question, we will publish it as
soon as possible. Sometimes we receive numerous
answers to the same request, but cannot print each one.
Answers to recipe requests should be sent to the same
address. x
QUESTION A York reader is looking for a recipe for
apple walnut bread with sugar topping. She said the recipe
appeared in this paper under “apple topics’’ a few years ago.
Did anyone dip the recipe? Send it in please.
QUESTION Mandy Hodecker would like the recipe for
key lime meringue pie. She would also like the filling recipe for
white whoopie pies.
QUESTION G. Sweitzer, Airville, would like recipes for
canning cantaloupes and for using gray hubbard squash.
QUESTION Wanda Boop, Mifflinburg, would like
recipes for making goat’s cheese. She also has goat milk for
sale, forwhich you can contact her at R. 2, Box 80, Mifflinburg,
PA 17844.
QUESTION Shirley Schwoerer, Wysox, lost her recipe
for Impossible Pineapple Pie, anyone have one for her? Shir
ley writes (with a smile) that she would be lost without this
paper because her hubby says that she can’t even boil water
without a recipe.
QUESTION A reader would like a recipe to make
canned applesauce.
QUESTION Evan Weidman, Newville, would like a
recipe to make a large amount of barbecue sauce.
QUESTION Howard Ransack, Belvidere, N.J., writes
that he has an abundance of garlic and would recipe for
pickled garlic as produced by the Amish in Lancaster County.
Ingredients include garlic cloves, vinegar, onions, green pep
per, salt, sugar, dill seed, and mustard seed.
QUESTION J. Poll, Leesburg, Va., remembers clipping
a recipe for pickled eggplant from this column. He lost the
recipe but has loads of eggplant. Anyone clip the recipe to
which he is referring? Please send it to be reprinted.
QUESTION Donna Girardin, Campbell Hall, N.Y., would
like a recipe for “half-sour pickles,” which she said are often
sold at flea markets and fairs. Would appreciate canning
instructions to go with it.
QUESTION Phyllis Stauffer, Carlisle, wants a recipe
that tastes like the hash brown casserole served at Cracker
Barrel restaurants.
QUESTION Elmer McGowan, Millerstown, wants a
recipe to make tongue souse.
QUESTION —A Pottsville reader is looking for barley flour
and other specialty flours.
QUESTION Phyllis Stauffer, Carlisle, wants a recipe
that Little Caesar’s used to have. It was a buttery dip with
herbs that they served with breadsticks.
QUESTION C. Fields, Topton, wants the recipe for the
Amish Friendship bread starter. She has the recipe to make
the bread, but needs the starter. She also would like the star
ter for a 30-Day Friendship Cake made with sugar, peaches,
crushed pineapples, and marachino cherries.
QUESTION Charles Ensor, Sparks, Md., would like a
recipe for sweet Italian sausage.
QUESTION A reader would like recipes to use barley in
stews, as a whole-grain breakfast cereal, etc.
QUESTION Dianne Decker, Shippensburg, wants a
recipe for Shaker Pie, which is a very wet pie made with
coconut
QUESTION —A reader wants to know where to buy Swiss
cheese with a touch of ham and blue cheese by the roll or
pound. She can find these items in 4-ounce packages, but
they are very expensive. She would also like to know where to
buy shrimp chips in a big box.
Cook’s
Question
QUESTION Fern Qerth would like a recipe for lime
marmalade.
QUESTION Lenora Kumler, Duncannon, would like a
recipe for flapjacks using eggs, flour, and milk. Flapjacks are
fried in an iron skillet like pita bread but eaten like pancakes
with butter and molasses.
QUESTION Barbie Smoker, Quarryville, lost the recipe
for Kiwi Jam printed about a year ago. Her family really liked
the jam, and she wondered if anyone clipped it and could send
it in to be reprinted.
QUESTION A reader purchased a package of brewer’s
yeast by mistake and wants to know how to use it.
QUESTION Arlene from Snyder County would like
recipes for Swiss Chard.
QUESTION Mrs. Amos Kauffman, Honey Brook, would
like a recipe to can apples (not apple pie filling) in hot water
bath.
QUESTION Lou Ann Sutter, Lebanon, wants to know
where she can buy Cento Stuffed Cherry Peppers, only this
item, not other Cento products.
QUESTION Mike would like to know where to purchase
goat and sheep milk in Schuylkill County.
QUESTION Shirley Schwoerer, Wysox, wants to know
how to can tiny ears of com, which she understands is
harvested from field corn when it is 2- to 3-inches in length
before the tassle begins to show. She found a recipe that is for
immediate use, but her family can’t eat them that fast so she
wants to can the tiny ears in jars. The recipe is for pickling
baby ears, but she would like a recipe to can without pickling
so that she can use them in dishes such as chow mein.
QUESTION —G. Sweitzer, Airville, would like to know how
to make cream of wheat or cream of farina from soft or hard
wheat berries using a grain mill. Also, wants cookings
instructions.
QUESTION Joan Miller, Intercourse, wants to know if
the cream puff recipe that includes a cream or pudding filling
is the same recipe used to make fancy puff sandwiches. If not,
does anyone have a recipe for the puff sandwiches?
QUESTION —Cindy Pudliner, New Holland, would like the
recipe for the biscuit sold at the restaurant called Joey's,
which was located beside the Comfort Inn in New Holland.
She used to order thaSausage and biscuits for breakfast The
biscuit made a light fluffy cake biscuit.
QUESTION A.W. Good, East Earl, would like to know
where to buy Kosher Jel. A previous source is no longer avail
able because the plant burned down.
QUESTION Barb Gaugher, Mansfield, wanted a recipe
for Kosher barrel pickles like those sold at deli counters.
QUESTION Brenda Houser, Middletown, would like a
recipe to make cookies that taste like the ones served at
Shady Maple Smorgasboard. The varieties that she likes are
Chocolate Chip Truffle, which has a chocolate batter with cho
colate chips in it and a soft chocolate center, and Peanut But
ter Truffle, which has a peanut butter batterwith chopped nuts
and a soft peanut butter filling.
QUESTION K. 8., York Springs, would like a recipe to
make rotisserie chicken that tastes like that made by Rutters’
Mini Market.
QUESTION Several years ago, J. Rouse clipped a
recipe from this section for maple syrup pork chops. Her fami
ly loves the recipe, but she lost it Anyone else clip the recipe?
Send it in so we can reprint it.
QUESTION Lynn Rossi, Lititz, would like a recipe for
marinated mushrooms, which are made without cooking oil
and sold by S. Clyde Weaver, East Petersburg.
QUESTION Mrs. Dale Burkhart, Narvon, misplaced a
recipe for a seasoning mixture to mb into beef roast before
roasting. She recalls that some of the ingredients included
instant coffee granules, beef bouillon, salt and pepper.
ANSWER Pat Schreffler, pitman, wanted easy and
good recipes to make freezer pickle* pr similar recipes for
pickling zucchini. Zucchini can be substituted for pickles.
Thanks to Mabel Hamish, Willow Street, for sending this
recipe.
Frozen Cucumbers
4 quarts sliced cucumbers, very thin
3 medium onions, sliced thin
4 tablespoons salt dissolved in water
Let stand 2 hours in salt water, drain. Combine;
3 cups sugar
2 cups vinegar
Bring to a boil. Set aside to cool. Pour syrup over cucum
bers and onions, freeze.
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Fayette
County
To Hold
Farm-City
Day
UNIONTOWN (Fayette Co.)
Fayette County Farm City
Days is scheduled for Saturday,
September 11, from noon to 6
p.m. The event is scheduled to
occur at Herring Farms, owned
and operated by the Darwin and
Bailey Herring families. Herring
Phrms is located approximately
3 miles southeast of Farmington,
just off Gibbon Glade Road.
Directional signs will be posted
leading the way to the farm, but
one way to reach the farm is to
turn south off of Rte. 40 unto
Rte. 381 south for 2 miles, then
left onto Gibbon Glade Rd. for 1
mile.
The purpose of Farm City
Day is to provide an opportunity
for citizens who have little farm
exposure to visit a working farm
and learn how the modern
farmer provides the most plenti
ful and safest food in the world
to the public. Visitors will wit
ness the operation of a modern
dairy farm, including feeding
and possible milking of the
Herring Holstein dairy herd, calf
feeding, and a walking and
wagon tour of points of interest
on the farm.
Special features this year will
include several farm and non
farm safety demonstrations,
including chain saw, ATV, lawn
mower, and First Aid.
Additional special features
, will be a wagop tour stop at an
historic one-room school and the
Woodlands Zoo.
Other recreational activities
for kids of all ages include an ice
cream eating contest, face paint
ing, pedal power tractor pull, an
antique tools display, and possi
bly a celebrity milking contest,
plus other events and exhibits.
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The Pennsylvania 4-H
Wildlife Habitat Evaluation
Team, consisting of three Berks
County 4-H members, placed
18th in the National
Competition in Manhattan,
Kan.
The team consisted of Heath
Bashore, Hamburg, Berks
County 4-H Rabbit Club; Lee
Gauker, Fleetwood, Berks
County 4-H Beef Club; James
Kauffman, Laureldale, Berks
County 4-H Reptile and Rabbit
Clubs; and Julie Dunkerton,
McKean County 4-H.
Individual honors went to
James Kauffman who placed
second nationally for interpret
ing wildlife habitat from aerial
photographs. The team qualified
for the national event by win
ning the state contest at Penn
State.