88-L«nca»ter Farming, Saturday, February 12, 2000
if you are looking for a recipe but can’t find it, send
your recipe request to Lou Ann Good, Cook’s Ques
tion Corner, in care of Lancaster Farming, P.O. Box
609, Ephrata, PA 17522. There’s no need to send an
SASE. If we receive 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 an
swers to lgood.eph@lnpnews.com
QUESTION - Chrissy Diehl from Woodbine, Md., is
looking for the recipe for kettle popcorn, the kind
cooked in large black kettles at fairs in Maryland and
Pennsylvania.
QUESTION Holly Hackenberg, Lewistown, is
looking for either a source or a recipe for teaberry
candies. They are about the size of SB’s. The family
sugar cookie recipe just isn’t the same without the
teaberry candies folded in the batter.
QUESTION The Early American Steam Engine
and Old Equipment Society is looking for corn meal
recipes. They want to provide a corn meal recipe bro
chure to those who buy the stone mill-ground corn
meal from them. Send recipes to the society in care of
Susan Knaub, EASE&OES, P.O. Box 652, Red Lion, PA
17356.
QUESTION A reader is looking for a recipe for co
conut custard pie.
QUESTION - Ruth Lockwood from Pine Bush, NY,
wants a recipe for homemade iiverwurst.
QUESTION Clara Hess, Little Marsh, wants a
recipe for Greek basic white bread.
QUESTION Doris Vanderlily from Ottsville would
like a recipe for salt bread that is made in a bread ma
chine.
QUESTION Pauline Feldman, Chambersburg,
wants a recipe for Easter pie.
QUESTION S. Kanady, Mickleton, N.J., wants a
recipe to make Jewish kosher pickles of green toma
toes. The process starts with pickles in a crock with
kosher salt brine covered with grape leaves and
weighted down with a stone and stored at room tem
perature.
QUESTION Donna Beyerbach, Oakdale, wants to
know how to make garlic powder from homegrown
garlic bulbs.
QUESTION Carol Nunn, New Columbia, wants a
recipe for banana butter, which does not contain
butter but is similiar to apple butter but made with ba
nanas.
QUESTION Dale e-mailed that a recipe appeared
in the paper for rye bread with caraway seeds. He
tried it and thought it was the best he ever had, but
has lost the recipe. Does anyone know to what recipe
he is referring? He thinks it appeared in the paper
around Christmas.
QUESTION Thelma 8011, Harleysville, would like
to know how to keep homebaked cookies from be
coming hard when serving them on a plate and stor
ing them for later use.
QUESTION Mrs. Zimmerman, Manheim, would
like recipes to make ice cream cake, which is layered
with ice cream and toppings.
QUESTION Mrs. Zimmerman, Manheim, would
like recipes, hints, and cookbooks that teaches
cheese and yogurt making. She also wants the name
of a mailorder company where she can purchase cul
tures for cheesemaking:
QUESTION K. Moyer, Summerville, is searching
for a recipe to make cracked wheat bread.
QUESTION Shirley Schwoerer, Wysox, wants a
recipe for Italian Riccota Bread, not using yeast.
QUESTION Jody Applebee, Pratesburg, N.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 cas
ings.
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
Virginia. The jelly tasted exactly like pecan pie in a jar.
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QUESTION Sandy Truckner, Avonmore, is look
ing 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 chocolate cookie did
not contain rolled oats.
QUESTION A reader wants a recipe to make
chicken chow mein for 50-100 people.
QUESTION A reader wants to know if it’s possi
ble to make puffed wheat or puffed rice without much
financial investment.
QUESTION Phyllis Stauffer, Carlisle, wants a
recipe that Little Caesar’s used to have. It was a but
tery dip with herbs that they served with breadsticks.
ANSWER Nancy Melinain, Dunstable, Mass.,
wants the recipe for pumpkin fudge that tastes like
that sold at Green Dragon. Thanks to Debbie Rey
nolds of Wrightsville for sending in this recipe.
Creamy Pumpkin Fudge
1 Vz cup sugar
% cup evaporated milk
Vz cup pumpkin
2 tbsp. butter
1 Vz tsp. pumpkin pie spice
1 A tsp. salt
2 cup mini marshmallows
1 pkg. (12 oz.) vanilla baking chips
1 tsp. vanilla
Line 8-inch square pan with foil; grease foil. Butter
sides of pan.
Combine sugar, milk, pumpkin, butter, and spices
in pan. Stirring constantly, bring mixture to a boil over
medium heat.
Add marshmallows, vanilla chips, and vanilla, stir
until melted.
Pour in prepared pan. Chill. Cut in squares.
ANSWER G. Sweitzer, Airville, wanted recipes for
gray hubbard squash. Thanks to a Lancaster Farming
subscriber for these two recipes.
Mashed Winter Squash
Preheat oven to 375° and scrub a 3 to 4 ib. Hubbard
or other winter squash. Place the squash on a rack
and bake it until it can be pierced easily with a tooth
pick. Cut in half, remove seeds, peel the squash, and
mash the pulp.
For 1 cup of squash, add the following ingredients:
1 tablespoon butter
1 teaspoon brown sugar
Va teaspoon salt
Va teaspoon ginger
Warm cream or orange juice
Beat mixture well with enough warm cream or
orange juice to make it a good consistency. Place in a
serving dish and sprinkle with either raisins or nut
meats and Va cup crushed pineapple.
Squash Pie
2 Vz cups cooked or baked squash (pulp)
Va teaspoon ground cloves
3 /a teaspoon cinnamon
Vz teaspoon ginger
Vz teaspoon ginger
Vz cup sugar or honey
2 tablespoons molasses
5 eggs
1 cup heavy cream or undiluted evaporated milk
Blend the cooked squash with Vz cup cream. Place
the puree in a large bowl and with a wooden spoon
beat in the spices, salt, sugar (or honey), and molas
ses.
In a separate bowl, whisk together the eggs and the
other Vz cream. Blend this mixture into the squash
mixture.
Preheat oven to 450°. Pour the filling into a 9 or 10-
inch unbaked pie shell and bake for 10 minutes at
450°. Then reduce temperature to 325° and bake for
45 minutes or until done.
Pauline Hess-Fisher from Lancaster also sent in
this recipe.
6 med. acorn squash
1 Vs lbs. lean sausage
3 /* cup evaporated milk
3 /» cup croutons
1 cup cooked English peas
1 V* tsp. salt
Va tsp. pepper
Va tsp. thyme
Cut off the stem-end of the squash. Discard seeds
and stringy parts. Set cut-side down into baking dish.
Put in V2-inch of water. Set in 350° pre-heated oven.
Cook 30 minutes.
In meantime, brown sausage meat. Drain. Soak
croutons in milk about 5 minutes. Add to sausage.
Add oeas and seasonings. Drain baking dish. Use
mixture to fill squash. Return to oven and bake 20
minutes.
Mashed potatoes sprinkled with cheese may be
used as a topping if you want to stretch your dish.
Squash Delight
ANSWER - Carolyn
Mack was looking for reci
pes to make fresh sausage
before it goes in the casing.
Here’s an family favorite
from Florence Moore in
Bear, DE.
Fresh Sausage
18 lbs. fresh pork in cubed
size pieces
5 tbsp. salt
3 tbsp.sage
3 tbsp. pepper
Itbsp.sugar
Moore’s father used to
spread all of the meat on a
metal topped table and
then sprinkle the seasoning
over it. He then just kept
turning the meat until it
was all mixed thoroughly.
The meat should then be
ground either at the
butcher and through a
home meat grinder. Moore
says the sausage was deli
cious. She cautions against
having the meat too coarse.
If it is too coarse, she re
commends grinding it
again.
ANSWER - A New York
reader wanted a particular
brownie mix. Here are two.
The first is from Rosene
Zimmerman in New Hol
land. And the second is
from Pat Elligson in Millers,
Md.
Brownie Mix
6 cups flour
4 tsp. salt
8 oz. can cocoa
4 tsp. baking powder
8 cups sugar
Mix together first 5
ingredients. Then cut in 2
cups of shortening. In can
be stored in air-tight con
tainer for up to 3 months.
For a 9X13 inch pan, add
4 cups mix, 1 tablespoon
vanilla, and 4 eggs. Mix
well. Bake at 350° for 20 to
25 minutes.
Sand Castle Brownies
Vs cup chopped nuts
Vs cup semisweet choco
late chips
Vs cup flaked coconut
% cup packed brown sugar
3 A cup granulated sugar
Vs cup cocoa
1 Vs cup flour
In a one quart container,
layer ingredients in the
order given above, packing
well between each layer.
Cover and store in a cool,
dry place up to 6 months.
To bake, place contents
of container in mixing bowl
and mix well. Add 2 eggs
that have been beaten with
cups vegetable oil and 1
tsp. vanilla.
Mix well. Spread into a
greased 8-inch square pan.
Bake at 350° for 30 min
utes. Cool on a wire rack.
Elligson suggests that the
brownies make a good gift.
You could give container of
mix with instructions at
tached.
ANSWER - A New York
reader wanted to know if
white flour could be used in
a bread machine. Thanks to
Virginia Zimmerman, who
suggested adding 1 Va tsp.
of Gluton flour per cup of
white flour to use it in the
bread machine. She said
that you can find Gluton
flour in the bulk section of
your supermarket.
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