88-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 1, 2000 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. You may also e-mail questions and answers to Igood.eph® lnpnews.com QUESTION Mary Winters, Elizabethtown, wants a recipe for hot wings or buffalo wings. QUESTION Mrs. Arthur Robbins, West Oneonta, N.Y., wants a good recipe for penuche fudge. Her husband’s grand mother made a wonderful fudge that was sugary but not hard. QUESTION —A reader wants to know where to buy Swiss cheese with a touch of ham and blue cheese by the roll or oi icennM chiHou crhumamf uA/csnv u/ante a rar-ina pound. She can find these items in 4-ounce packages, but < ttrey are veiy expensive. also like toknow where to 9 7 buy shnmp chips in a big box. QUESTION—BeverIy Findleiz, Holtwood, wants a recipe for pumpkin delight, a delicious dessert served at Hoss’s dessert bar. QUESTION Jody Applebee, Pratesburg, N.Y., wants a recipe that tastes similar to chow chow made at Kitchen Kettle Village. QUESTION Jody Applebee, Pratesburg, ty.Y., wants a recipe her mom used to make. It is a sticky bun that has orange Tang as one of the ingredients. QUESTION —Myrtle Sorge, Sicklerville, N.J., is searching for a recipe to make kidney pudding in casings. QUESTION Trina Boitnott, Boones Mill, Va., wants a recipe for pecan jelly and other nut-flavored jellies. She tasted pecan jelly in a specialty shop in Virgina. The jelly tasted exactly like pecan pie in a jar. QUESTION A reader wants a recipe for horseradish jelly. QUESTION—Sandy Truckner, Avonmore, is looking for a recipe that had been printed in a children's cookbook that was popular in the late 1950 s or early 19605, where she lived in northeast Ohio. Called Eskimo Cookies, the no bake choco late cookie did not contain roiled oats. QUESTION C. Savare, Neshanic Station, N.J., wants a recipe for potato salad with an oil and vinegar dressing, and does not contain eggs or mayonnaise. QUESTION Eva Marie Poliquin, Alburits, wants recipes for canning meats, soups, meatballs, chili, etc. QUESTION Nancy Melinain, Dunstable, Mass., wants the recipe for pumpkin fudge that tastes like that sold at Green Dragon. QUESTION Eva Marie Poliquin, Alburtis, wants recipes to can spaghetti with meatballs, sausage, meats, soups, and chili. QUESTION Sue Slimmer, Myersville, Md., would tike a bread recipe that uses a lot of grain. She'd also like to know of cookbooks featuring bread. QUESTION Jane Sauble, Manheim, wants a recipe for Moravian pie. QUESTION Janet Weisner, Kempton, wants recipes to make yeast breads in the following flavors: strawberry, blueberry, apple cinnamon, cheese, and cream cheese. QUESTION Norma Eckard, Gettysburg, wants a recipe for dietetic peanut butter balls and other sugar-free candy recipes. QUESTION A reader wants a recipe to make chicken chow mein for 50-100 people. QUESTION A reader wants to know if it's possible to make puffed wheat or puffed rice without much financial investment QUESTION G. Sweitzer, Airville, wanted recipes for using gray hubbard squash. Cook’s Lentils Maintain Popularity LENTIL BRAN MUFFINS 1 cup buttermilk 2 cups bran cereal 2'/i cups all-purpose flour 1 tablespoon baking soda ‘A teaspoon salt 1 cup lentils, rinsed, cooked, purred 'A cup vegetable oil 1 cup granulated sugar 2 eggs, well beaten Pour buttermilk over cereal and let stand until absorbed. In a QUESTION Lydia Murphy-Althouse wrote that she is a new wife in Berks County and a new subscriber to this paper. She needs good-tasting bear recipes. 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. ANSWER Hera are a few recipes for Richard Kleckner, Quakertown, from an anonymous person. 2 cups sugar 3 eggs % cup vegetable oil 2V* cups flour V/t teaspoon baking soda ’A teaspoon salt V* cup cocoa dissolved in 11/*I 1 /* cups hot water Bake at 325 degrees until done, about 30 minutes. Chocolate 2% cups all-purpose flour (unfttad) 1 teaspoon baking soda ft 1 cup butter . , 1% cups sugar f 1 teaspoon vanilla 4-ounce package instant vanßia pudding 2 eggs 12-ounces package chocolate chips Combine butter, sugar, vanilla, and pudding mix. Beat until smooth. Beat in eggs. Gradually add flour and baking soda. Batter will be stiff. Bake at 375 degrees for 8-10 minutes. To make the cookies more chewy, put about '/* cup whole wheat flour in the batter. Coffee Chocolate Cake 3'A cups sifted flour 2 teaspoons baking soda 1 cup shortening 2'A cups sugar 1 teaspoon salt 2 teaspoons vanilla 4 eggs 1 cup cocoa 2 cups strong coffee (2 teaspoons coffee in cup of hot water) Sift together flour and baking soda. Set aside and turn oven to 350 degrees. Blend shortening, sugar, salt, and vanilla and eggs until smooth. Add the flour mixture alternately with cof fee mixture beginning and ending with flour. Bake at 350 degrees for 30-35 minutes. Makes three 9-inch layers. ANSWER Dianne Decker, Shippensburg, wanted a recipe for Shaker Pie, which is a very wet pie made with coco nut Here’s a pie recipe, not called shaker but wet and with coconut Thanks to Mrs. Nathan Rudolph, Greencastle, for sending it '/« cup butter 1 cup sugar Va cup evaporated milk 3 eggs, beaten V 2 cup light corn syrup Va cup nuts Vi cup chocolate chips % cup coconut 1 teaspoon vanilla V* teaspoon salt Cream butter and sugar. Add beaten eggs, syrup, milk, salt, and vanilla. Stir in Va cup nuts and coconut. Pour into 9-inch unbaked pie shell. Combine remainderwith nuts, coco nut, and chocolate chips. Put on top. Bake 40 minutes at 375 degrees. (Continued from Pago B 6) medium bowl, mix flour, soda, and salt; set aside. In a large bowl, heat oil, sugar, and eggs. Add the len tils, then the dry mixture and the cereal mixture. Pour into lined muffin tins or spread evenly in a greased ISxlOxl-inch cookie sheet and bake in 350 degree oven; 15-18 minutes for muffins or 30-40 minutes for cookie bars. Mildred Hess Myers town Sara’s Chocolate Cake Kentucky Derby Pie * . •K *J * OLD WORLD PIZZA Cheesy Rice Crust (recipe follows) 4 cups water I cup dried lentils 1 pound bulk pork sausage 3 (15-ouncc) cans tomato sauce 2 teaspoons dried oregano leaves 2 teaspoons dried thyme leaves V« teaspoons garlic powder 'li teaspoon dried basil leaves I’A cups shredded mozzarella cheese 'h cup grated parmesan cheese Prepare cheesy rice crust for two pizzas as directed below. Bake in 450-degree oven 20 minutes or until set Heat water in 3-quart saucepan over high heat until it comes to a boil. Add lentils. Cover and sim mer 30 minutes or until tender. Drain lentils in colander. Return to pan. Mash lentils, using potato masher. Cook sausage in 10-inch skillet over medium heat until browned. Pour off excess fat Stir in mashed lentils. Combine tomato sauce, orega- - no, thyme, garlic powder, and basil. in bowl. Blend well. Spread half die tomato mixture over each cheesy rice crust Top each with half the sausage mixture, half the , mozzarella, and half the patmesan. < Ralte in 450 degree oven 10 minutes or until,hot and bubbly. Makes two pizzas or 16 servings.. Note: Pizzas may be frozen before baking. Bake frozen pizza in 450 degree oven IS minutes or until hot Cheesy Rice Crust Combine 5 : cups cold cooked rice, 4 eggs, | beaten, and I'/icups shredded' cbeddar cheese. Mix well. Divide \ mixture between two greased ‘ 12-inch pizza pans. Lightly press into bottoms and up rides of pans. Mildred Hess Myers town LENTIL-RICE TOMATO SOUP 1 medium onion, chopped 2 tablespoons oil 1 cup dry lentils '/a cup brown rice 6 cups water 1 pound tomatoes (fresh or canned), diced Pinch sweet basil Salt and pepper to taste Saute onion in oil until golden, not brown. Add the lentils and rice. Add water and bring to a boil. Cook over low heat until the lentils and rice am done. Add the toma toes (whole and sauce), sweet basil and seasoning. Heat before serv ing. Serves 6. LENTIL BARLEY SOUP V« cup onion, chopped 3 A cup cckry, chopped 'A cup butter 2 cups crushed tomatoes 2 cups water or tomato juice 1 cup chicken broth V« cup lentils, rinsed 3 A cup barley 1 tablespoon rosemary 'lt teaspoon ground black pepper ’A cup shredded carrots In a large pot, saute onion and celery in butter until tender. Add remaining ingredients, except car rots. Cover and simmer 35 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add carrots, cover, and cook five more minutes. Makes four to five servings. Mildred Hess Mycrstown
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