86-Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, June 3, 2000
Juniata County Dairy Princess Bobbi Jo Dressier with
sister Mindy, dairy ambassador, and parents Pat and Russ
Dressier.
LASAGNA
1 pound ground beef
1 medium onion
1 quart jar spaghetti sauce
9 lasagna noodles
15-ounce cottage cheese
12-ounce mozzarella cheese
'A cup parmesan cheese
Brown meat and onion. Drain
grease. Add spaghetti sauce and
simmer for 5 minutes. In a sepa
rate bowl, blend cottage cheese
and parmesan cheese. In a
greased 12x8-inch baking dish,
layer noodles, sauce, and cheese.
Begin with sauce and end with
mozzarella cheese. Bake 30-45
minutes at 375 degrees until top
cheese is lightly browned. Serves
4-6.
I live on my family’s dairy
farm with my parents’ Russ and
Pat Dressier and sister Mindy.
We have about 110-head Hol
steins, 65 are milking. We farm
210 acres.
I am grateful to my parents for
choosing to be dairy farmers
even though neither of them had
farm background. Growing up
on a dairy farm gave my sister
and I opportunities other kids did
not have, like working side by
side with our parents and show
ing our heifers in 4-H.
On May 7, I was crownea the
Juniata County Dairy Princess. I
am looking forward to a great
year promoting this wonderful
industry.
Bobbi Jo Dressier
Juniata Co. Dairy Princess
EGG QUICHE
8 slices bacon or ham, cooked,
diced
1 cup shredded cheese
3 eggs
VA cups milk
Vi cup Bisquick
Vi cup butter, melted
Put bacon and cheese in
bottom of greased 9-inch pie
dish. Mix, in blender, eggs, milk,
Bisquick, and butter. Pour over
meat and cheese. Bake at 350
degrees for 35 minutes. Let
stand 10 minutes, then serve.
Serves 4.
This recipe can be doubled to
serve 8 and will fit nicely in a
9x13-inch baking dish.
We are not dairy farmers, but
we really enjoy this breakfast
dish. It is quick and easy to pre
pare and finds its way to our table
at least once a week.
Our family enjoys fanning. We
have two broiler barns and also
an orchard farm market. Most of
what we sell is grown here, in
cluding peaches, apples,
strawberries, raspberries, and a
wide variety of vegetables.
Our two sons, Josiah, almost 3
years, and Benjamin, IV2, are a
blessing to us, and we are grate
ful for the priviledge to enjoy
farming together as ajamily.
Andrea Martin
Mohnton
Dairy Recipes To Get You ‘Mooving ’
VIDALIA ONION PIE
Pie crust:
1 Vi cups flour
Vi teaspoon salt
Vi cup chilled vegetable short
ening
1 tablespoon butter
3-4 tablespoons ice water
Filling:
2 pounds thinly sliced Vidalia
onions
Vi cup unsalted butter
2 cups sour cream
3 eggs, beaten
W teaspoon salt
Vi teaspoon pepper
Dash hot pepper sauce
Vi cup freshly grated par
mesan cheese
For pie crust, mix flour and
salt in large bowl. Cut in short
ening and butter until mixture
resembles coarse crumbs. Stir in
water, 1 tablespoon at a time,
just until mixture can be gath
ered into a ball. Wrap in plastic
and refrigerate at least 30 min
utes.
Roll dough between two
sheets of floured wax paper into
a large circle about '/s-inch
thick. Fit into a 9-inch pie pan;
trim and flute edge. Refrigerate
while you prepare filling.
Heat oven to 450 degrees. For
filling, saute onions in butter in
large skillet until crisp-tender.
Remove from heat. Mix eggs
and sour cream in large bowl.
Stir in onion mixture, salt,
pepper, and hot pepper sauce.
Pour mixture into prepared pie
crust. Sprinkle with parmesan
cheese.
Bake at 450 degrees for 20
minutes. Reduce oven tempera
ture to 325 degrees. Continue
baking until top and crust are
golden, about 20 more minutes.
Cool on wire rack. Serve warm.
Greetings from Rexroth
Farm in York County.
We sure have appreciated the
good farming weather so far this
season. Just hope it continues.
We don’t need another year like
last year.
We have a diversified farming
operation crops, beef cattle,
and dairy. And our cows are Hol
steins.
I enjoy Lancaster Farming
every week, but / really look for
ward to the June issues. There
are so many good recipes to try.
And the contest with all the cow
prizes most of them black and
white variety makes it even
more enjoyable.
This pie is wonderful if you
like onions. People who didn’t
think they would like it, tried it
just because I made it, and they
couldn’t believe how good it
tastes. Hope some of you will try
it and I sure hope you like it.
Looking forward to preparing
lots of new recipes for our farm
crews.
(Continued from Pago B 2)
POTATO CASSEROLE
2 pounds frozen hash brown
potatoes
Vi cup butter, melted
1 can cream of chicken soup
2 cups cheddar cheese, grated
'A cup chopped onion
2 cups sour cream
1 teaspoon salt
Mix together all ingredients.
Place in buttered 3-quart cas
serole. May be prepared the day
before and refrigerated, covered.
Remove from refrigerator about
two hours before baking. Bake
at 350 degrees for 45-60 min
utes. Serves 12.
My family enjoys this recipe
very much.
Our nine grandchildren enjoy
playing with the nine llamas
that we raise.
I love this paper, especially
the recipe section. I have tried to
win one of your great prizes
before, but will keep trying.
Lucinda Bray
Berks Co. Dairy Princess
DAIRY POTATO SALAD
4 pounds potatoes, cooked,
peeled
1 cup mayonnaise
2 cups sour cream
Vi cup vinegar
Vi cup chopped onion
V «cup chopped celery
4 hard-cooked eggs
Salt, pepper, and dill to taste
Slice potatoes and gently mix
all ingredients together.
Lucinda is the 18-year-old
daughter of John S. and Marcia
Bray, Richland. She is the Berks
County Dairy Princess and
served as the Berks County Al
ternate Dairy Princess last year.
Lucinda is treasurer of west
ern Berks 4-H Dairy Club and a
member of Tulpehocken FFA.
Cindy is graduating member of
Tulpehocken High School 2000,
a member of the National Honor
Society, and Tulpehocken’s
Outstanding Young Woman of
the Year.
Cindy is employed by Way-
Har Dairy Farm, when not busy
with her own Jerseys and Hol
steins of Mountain-Edge Farm.
She owns eight animals and
enjoys showing her dairy cattle
and market swine at various
county fairs each year.
This fall, Cindy will attend
Penn State University, main
campus, to study landscape ar
chitecture.
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Sue McKinsey
Windsor
June Baklik
Shelton, Conn.
Lucinda Bray
Berks Co. Dairy Princess
Two of June Baklik’s nine grandchildren are Ronny and
Ashley who enjoy playing with one of the baby llamas the
Bakliks raise.
RANCH BURGERS
2 pounds ground beef
1 cup milk
IVz cups cracker crumbs
4 eggs
Mix together well. Form into
patties, roll patties in flour, and
brown quickly. Place in layer in
roast pan.
Sauce;
2 tablespoons chopped onion
2 tablespoons chopped celery
2 tablespoons butter
I cup ketchup
1 tablespoon mustard
I'/j cups water
2 tablespoons Worcestershire
sauce
l A cup brown sugar
1 teaspoon garlic salt
Vi teaspoon black pepper
1 teaspoon salt
Combine all ingredients.
Simmer 10 minutes. Pour over
burgers and bake one hour at
300 degrees.
This recipe is one of our favor
ites. Especially the sauce. I use it
on ham balls, too.
We don’t live on a farm, but we
still use a lot of dairy products.
We have a bike shop plus a few
animals. That helps keep Mary
Lou, 12, and Wendall, 10, busy
over the summer when there is no
school. They also help their
uncles on the farm.
Edward, Grace, Mary Lou, and
Wendall Weaver
Glendon and Yvonne Horst with children Austin and
Kristy. Another son, Derek, is not pictured.
SOUR CREAM CHICKEN
4 boneless, skinless chicken
breasts
2 cups sour cream
2 cans cream of mushroom
soup
1 cup butter
5 cups Ritz crackers, crushed
1 cup Cheddar cheese (op
tional)
Parboil chicken. Cut in
chunks and lay in 9x13-inch
pan. Mix soup and sour cream.
Pour over chicken. Melt butter
and stir in crackers. Spread on
top of sour cream mixture. Top
with cheese if desired. Bake at
350 degrees for 45 minutes.
Serves 8-10.
I’m sharing this recipe with
you because it is one of our fa
vorites. It is also easy and fast to
fix. The sour cream and buttery
crumb mixture is what makes
this dish delicious. Thanks to all
dairy farmers for making these
products available to us.
Although we are not dairy
farmers, my husband farms in
his spare time. Besides his full
time job as a mason, he has 30
steers and also boards heifers.
He also plants com and soy
beans on about 90 acres.
We have three children,
Austin, 5, Kristy, 4, and Derek,,
1.
Glendon and Yvonne Horst
Newmanstown
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