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QUESTION Cindy Stahl has Alpine dairy goats that
provide the family with more milk than needed. She would
like recipes for milk-based recipes other than puddings,
ice cream, cheese, butter, and milk soap. Non-dessert
recipes would be most appreciated.
QUESTION Herman Bean, Easton, writes that he is
78 years old. He remembers his grandmother made mo
lasses cookies when he was a small boy. His mother still
made them at 95 years of age but died 10 years ago and
took the recipe with her. The dough was cut with flower
or boy and girl-shaped cookie cutters. When baked, the
cookies were about an inch thick, 4-inches high, and 2- or
3-inches wide. They were sort of a grayish color, soft, and
had to be put into a can for a couple of days before eat
ing. Bean said, he believes the cookies are a “Dutch fa
vorite.”
QUESTION Shirley Schwoerer, Wysox, requests a
recipe for canned pickled sausages or ring bologna.
QUESTION A reader would like to have vanilla or
lemon pudding recipes used to fill doughnuts.
QUESTION Ruth Erb, Beavertown, wants a recipe
called Ann-Margaret’s Favorite Chocolate Cake.
QUESTION A reader from Dauphin would like a reci
pe for society pickles, which she heard stay crunchy after
they are canned.
QUESTION - Elaine Fyock, Windber, is looking for a
recipe for New England clam chowder, which tastes simi
liar to that served at Ponderosa Retaurant.
QUESTION Steven Skramko, Richfield Springs, N.Y.,
would like a recipe to make Shoe Top cookies, which look
like leather used for repairing shoes. He writes the recipe
is from 60 years ago.
QUESTION Chris Martin, Benton, wanted to know
how to make dough pockets similiar to “Hot Pockets.”
QUESTION The Early American Steam Engine and
Old Equipment Society is looking for com meal recipes.
They want to provide a corn meal recipe brochure 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 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.
QUESTION A reader wants to know if it’s possible to
make puffed wheat or puffed rice without much financial
investment.
ANSWER A reader wanted a recipe for the jelly-filled
Archway cookies or one similiar to it. Thanks to Marie
Miller for sending a recipe.
Fruit-Filled Archway Cookies
Cream together:
1 cup shortening
IV* cups sugar
Add alternately with 1 cup milk, stir In;
2 eggs, beaten
2 teaspoons vanilla
4Vi cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
Beat mixture and drop by tabiespoonsful onto cookie
sheet. Imprint center of each cookie with floured thumb.
Add cherry pie filling or any fruit mixture desired into im
print. Bake at 375 degrees for 12-15 minutes. Makes 4
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dozen.
ANSWER Linda Fletcher, Walnutport, wants a
recipe to make summer bologna in the oven. Thanks
to I. Wenger for sending two recipes that she uses.
Beef Or Pork Roil
25 pounds beef (use pork for pork roll)
% pound Tender Quick
Grind together twice. Let stand 24 hours in refrig
erator. Add:
2 cups brown sugar
3 tablespoons black pepper
2 teaspoons saltpeter (may be omitted)
5 tablespoons Liquid Smoke
Mix well and stuff in bologna bags. Wrap in aluminum
foil and bake at 350 degrees for one hour.
2 pounds ground meat
1 cup water
1 Vs teaspoon Liquid Smoke
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 tablespoon mustard seed
1 teaspoon seasoned salt
2 tablespoons Morton Tender Quick, or to taste
Combine ingredients and wrap in roll shapes in foil. Re
frigerate for 24 hours. Bake in 350 degree oven for 75
minutes. Open foil for last 15 minutes of baking.
ANSWER Lucy Lowe, Claymont, Del., wanted a reci
pe for ozark pudding. Thanks to O.W. Seibert, Hummels
town, for sending a recipe.
Ozark Pudding
1 egg
3 /4 cup sugar
2 tablespoons flour
IV2 teaspoons baking powder
1 Vi cups apples, sliced thin
1 teaspoon vanilla
Vs teaspoon salt
Vz cup nutmeats
Combine egg and sugar. Combine flour, baking powder,
and salt. Add to first mixture. Fold into this mixture the
nutmeats, apples, and vanilla.
Bake in greased baking pan until apples are tender and
top is browned in 350-degree oven, about 25 minutes.
Serve hot or cold over ice cream or with whipped
cream.
Here’s a similiar recipe sent by an anonymous reader.
Ozark Pudding
% cup sugar
V» cup flour
V* teaspoon salt
1 egg
1V« teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon vanilla
Vi cup chopped nuts
Vt cup chopped apples
Mix flour, sugar, salt, and egg. Add vanilla and baking
powder. Mix. Fold in chopped nuts and apples. Spread
thin in a greased pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 35 min
utes.
ANSWER Phyllis Stauffer, Carlisle, wanted a reci
pe that Little Caesar’s used to have. It was a buttery dip
with herbs that they served with breadsticks. Thanks to
Melissa Lapp, Cassadaga, N.Y., for sending a recipe.
% cup butter, melted
3 tablespoons olive oil
3 tablespoons parmesan cheese
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 tablespoon oregano
1 tablespoon parsley
Combine ingredients and serve hot.
ANSWER Sandy Farmer, here’s another granola bar
recipe from Vera Zimmerman.
Qranola Bara
1 % pounds marshmallows
V« cup margarine
Melt together and add:
V* cup vegetable oil
Vx cup honey
y« cup peanut butter
In another bowl, combine:
9% cups rice crispy cereal
5 cups oatmeal
1 cup crushed peanuts
IV4 cups raisins
1 cup coconut
1 cup graham crackers, crushed
1 cup chocolate chips or M&Ms
Combine both mixtures. Pat into oblong cake pan. Cut
into bars.
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nutrients.
Among other things, selenium Luckily, most people get
helps form four types of the en- enough selenium from a balanced
zyme glutathione peroxidase diet. Good sources usually include
which fight peroxides that can tuna and other seafood, liver,
damage cells and tissues. It also meat, pasta and grains,
appears to be important in sperm The new recommendations for
formation. A severe selenium deft- selenium also include a daily
ciency can lead to Keshan disease, upper limit of 400 micrograms,
a form of heart disease that strikes but that takes into account a safe
children and women of child-bear- ty factor of 400-600 micrograms.
Summer Sausage
Breadsticks
mg age.
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CRUMB CAKE
3 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
'A teaspoon salt
2 cups sifted sugar
Vi cup butter
Mix and reserve half cup for
the crumb topping. To the re
maining ingredients, add:
2 eggs, beaten
1 cup milk
Vi teaspoon vanilla
Bake at 350 degrees for 45
minutes or until top springs back
when lightly touched.
Michelle McMichael
Berks Co.
Grandma
Right
About
Fiber
I was surprised to read that
fiber doesn’t help against colon
cancer after all.
Does this mean a high-fiber diet
is no longer important?
Not by a long shot. The studies
you mention, published in March
2000, were disappointing but not
totally unexpected.
First, the research studied only
people who had already suffered
from colon polyps, which are
growths on the inner wall of the
colon or rectum. About 40 percent
of people over age 50 get polyps.
About 5 percent to 10 percent of
polyps become cancerous.
Two studies showed no differ
ence in the rate of the recurrence
of polyps between people put on
special diets and those who
weren’t. The first study, con
ducted over four years, showed no
effect from a low-fat, high-fiber,
high fruit and vegetable diet. An
other three-year study showed no
difference between those eating a
high fiber (13.5 grams) cereal each
day compared with eating a low
fiber (2 grams) cereal each day.
That’s probably what you read
in the headlines. There’s more to
the story, though.
For one thing, colorectal cancer
takes decades to develop. Dietary
factors may affect the formation
of polyps years before they can be
detected. Even studies lasting
three or four years might not
show any effect if the process has
already started. The researchers
in both studies plan to continue
following patients, watching for
more long-term impacts.
Also, the polyps that did form
In the study tended to be small.
Dietary factors might help pre
vent (heir growth into large poly
ps, of lower the risk that any large
polyps develop into cancer. The
studies did not look at those possi
bilities.
Fiber has other benefits, too.
Soluble fiber has been linked with
a decrease in blood cholesterol, so
it may be helpful for people sus
ceptible to heart disease. A high
fiber diet also can help prevent di
verticulosis, a condition in which
tiny pockets form in the colon.
(Ironically, if you’ve already got
diverticulosis and those pockets
become inflamed, you need to se
verely limit fiber intake until the
inflammation goes down).
High-fiber foods, like beans,
whole grains, fruits and vege
tables, also have vitamins, miner
als and phytochemicals that may
reduce cancer and offer other ben
efits. So don’t write fiber off yet.
Editor: This column was re
viewed by Sharron Coplin, regis
tered dietitian and Ohio State
University Extension associate in
the College of Human Ecology.