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,
Ephrata, PA 17522. There's no need to send a self-ad
dressed stamped envelope. If we receive an answer to
your question, we will publish it as soon as possible.
Check your recipe to make sure you copy the right
amounts and complete instructions for making the reci
pe. Sometimes we receive numerous answers to the
same request, but cannot print each one.
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same address. You may also e-mail questions and an
swers to lgood.eph@lnpnews.com
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QUESTION Charles Cramer, New Market,
Md., would like a copy of the “Lancaster Level
Flo Cookbook (Recipes From the Land of the
Pennsylvania Dutch).” His family enjoyed a rec
ipe that they believe was originally published in
this 19705’ cookbook. The potato salad recipe
had a delicious salad dressing.
QUESTION A reader wants a recipe to
make elderberry wine from fresh elderberries.
QUESTION A subscriber from Leesport
writes that she has a problem with sponge and
chiffon cakes. Although the cakes bake well,
she ends up cutting off one-inch from the bot
tom of the cake because it is a gummy consis
tency.
QUESTION Kenneth Hixon, Warfordsburg,
would like a recipe for making gherkin pickles.
QUESTION Kenneth Hixon, Warfordsburg,
would like a recipe for stuffing peppers with a
cabbage slaw mixture and canning in a pickled
vinegar mixture. He needs complete instruc
tions and ingredients.
QUESTION A Somerset reader wants a
recipe for cooked potato salad dressing that is
very yellow from including lots of eggs. The
dressing is chilled after it is cooked.
QUESTION Don Love writes that ladies
are not the only ones who like the “B” section.
He used to manage restaurants in Gillette, Wy
oming, and enjoys good old American country
cooking. He’d like recipes to make homemade
marshmallow creme, homemade cottage
cheese, and cream cheese or substitute.
QUESTION Eleanor Kisner, Muncy, wants
zucchini recipes for casseroles.
QUESTION Several months ago Michael
Brennan, Wilkes Barre, was at an auction in
Sullivan County where he ate chicken noodle
soup. He writes that it was delicious and look
ed to be only noodles and chicken. He believes
the people at the food stand were from Berks
County and were also selling beef vegetable
soup. Brennan would like both recipes.
QUESTION Michael Brennan, Wilkes Barre,
would like a recipe for what he calls brown
basmati long-grain rice. Perhaps the word is
misspelled as I have never heard of it before.
Does anyone know to what he is referring?
QUESTION A reader is looking for recipes
for hot pepper jam and for sweet pepper jam
that tastes similiar to that made by Kitchen
Kettle.
QUESTION A reader would like a recipe to
make a baking mix similiar to Bisquick, which
she can use in recipes calling for Bisquick.
QUESTION A reader wants recipes for
Send Your Favorite Beef Recipe To Enter Contest
The Pennsylvania Beef Council and Lancaster Farm
ing are sponsoring a beef recipe contest to highlight the
versatility and nutritional value of beef. To enter the
drawing, pick out your favorite recipe which includes a
substantial amount of beef or veal.
Simply give us your favorite recipe to prepare that
steak, roast, fdet, or ground beef for your hungry family
and write a short description on why the recipe is such a
hit with your family.
Your recipe may fall into the appetizer, soup, entree.
Cook’s
Question
Comer
breads, cakes, etc., using whole grains. She’d
like to cook and bake more healthful foods.
Anyone have some ideas and recipes to share?
QUESTION - Betty Jakum, Littiestown,
wants a recipe for cabbage-noodle salad that is
served cold similar to potato salad or coleslaw.
It is sold at the Allentown Farmers Market.
QUESTION Bonnie Reese, Wellsboro,
writes that a few years ago, she clipped a won
derful recipe for vegetable pizza from this
paper. The recipe had a crust that tasted simi
lar to crescent roll refrigerated dough. She lost
the recipe and asked if anyone else clipped it
and could send it in to be reprinted.
QUESTION Bonnie Reese, Wellsboro,
wants a recipe for cheesecake that tastes like
that served in restaurants. The cheesecakes
are about 10-inches in diameter and 4-inches
in depth.
QUESTION A Newburg reader would like
recipes for jams and jellies or fruit spreads
without sugar or artificial sweetener. She’d like
recipes that taste similar to brands such as Po
taner’s All Fruit, Spreadable Fruit, or Smucker’s
Simply 100% Fruit.
QUESTION - Sylvia Allgyer, Christiana,
would like a recipe for sourdough seven grain
bread.
QUESTION - Eva Mae Oberholtzer, Ephrata,
would like recipes to make goat cheeses and
soaps. She writes that Michelle Good, Beaver
town, had sent in a dairy contest recipe for a
goat milk pudding and Eva Mae asks if she
would send in more recipes using goat’s milk.
QUESTION Shirley Schwoerer, Wysox,
wants to know where to buy vanilla beans in
bulk other than in a health food store.
QUESTION Like many of our readers,
Bonnie Koons, Harrisburg, writes that she
loves B section and all the recipes she tries
from it are great. She wants a recipe for
cheesecake cookies, which have a snickerdoo
dle recipe base, cheesy center, and a cherry on
top.
QUESTION Shirley Miller, Nazareth, would
like to find a recipe or booklet about potato
flour.
QUESTION Shirley Schwoerer, Wysox, re
quests a recipe for canned pickled sausages or
ring bologna.
QUESTION Ruth Erb, Beavertown, wants a
recipe called Ann-Margaret’s Favorite Choco
late Cake.
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.
ANSWER Summertime brings lots of reun
ions and gatherings where participants are
asked to bring a hot and cold dish. Several
readers requested recipes to take to these
events. Thanks to many readers for sending
recipes, which are printed on page 86.
ANSWER Herman Bean requested a reci
pe for cutout molasses cookies. Dorothy
Stoms, Deerfield St., N.J., sent a drop cookie
recipe, which, she writes, is very old. The reci
pe is from an 84-year-old friend who got it from
her mother. Dorothy has used the recipe for 20
years and taken the cookies to family gather
ings and church suppers or given to friends.
The cookies go fast according to Dorothy.
Molasses Cookies
Vz cup molasses
Vz cup sugar
Vz cup milk
Vz cup shortening
Mix together shortening, sugar, milk, and
molasses until light and fluffy.
In another bowl, mix together:
2Vz cups flour
Vz tablespoon baking soda
% teaspoon cinnamon
Vs teaspoon ginger
Mix together both mixtures, add Vz cup rai
sins.
vegetable, snack and salad categories or any other crea
tive way to prepare and present beef and veal.
The deadline to enter recipes is Friday, August 25.
Contest winners will be printed in the September 2 issue
of Lancaster Farming.
Send your entry immediately. Winners will be selected
by a random drawing at the end of August, however
Lancaster Farming will be printing beef recipes
throughout September.
Please clearly print or type your recipe entry. Also be
Drop on greased cookie tray. Bake 15 min
utes at 350 degrees.
Store in cookie tin for a day or two. Makes a
soft cookie.
ANSWER For George Spencer who wanted
to know who sells buttermilk, Samuel Zook
writes that he will have a quart or two to sell
each week starting in the fall. He has a few
neighbors who churn their own butter and
would probably also sell buttermilk. Write to
him at 430 N. Shirk Rd., New Holland, PA
17557.
ANSWER C. Alleman, Hummelstown,
wanted recipes for pepper cabbage and pick
led vegetables. Thaks to a reader who sent in
the following recipes. More will be included
with the garden vegetable feature printed on
the “Home on the Range” page next week.
Red Pepper Relish
24 sweet red peppers
7 medium onions
2 tablespoons mustard seed
2 tablespoons salt
3 cups vinegar
3 cups sugar
Grind peppers and onions, saving the juice.
Combine with juice and other ingredients. Boil
30 minutes. Pack into hot sterilized jars and
seal at once.
Yellow Summer Squash Relish
8 cups squash
4 cups bell peppers, chopped
2 cups onions, chopped
2 cups vinegar
2 teaspoons celery seed
2 teaspoons dry mustard
3 cups sugar
Vt. cup water
Mix vegetables and let stand one hour.
Drain. Mix vinegar and remaining ingredients.
Pour into kettle with vegetables. Bring to a boil
and cook 10 minutes. Pour into sterilized pint
jars and seal. Yield: 8 pints.
Pickled Com Chunks
4 ears fresh corn
2 cups white vinegar
1 Vi cups water
1 Vi cups sugar
1 Vi teaspoon salt
1 Vi teaspoon celery seed
Vi teaspoon mustard seed
Vi teaspoon ground red pepper
2 small onions, thinly sliced
Remove husks and silk from corn. Cut into
one-inch pieces. In a large saucepan, combine
remaining ingredients, bring to boiling point.
Boil two minutes. Add corn, cover and cook
five minutes. Cool and chill. Serve corn with
corn holders as an hors d’ oeuvre or as a meat
accompaniment. Makes 2 quarts.
ANSWER A reader wanted a recipe for
soft and high oatmeal whoopie pies. Thanks to
R. Hoover, New Holland, for sending a recipe.
Oatmeal Whoopie Pies
2 cups brown sugar
% cup butter
2 eggs
Vfe teaspoon salt
2 cups flour
2 cups rolled oats
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon baking powder
2 teaspoons baking soda, dissolved in 4 ta
blespoons boiling water
Cream together sugar, butter, and eggs. Add
salt, flour, rolled oats, cinnamon, and baking
powder. Add baking soda water last. Beat.
Bake at 350 degrees for approximately 10 min
utes.
Frosting:
2 egg whites
2 teaspoons vanilla
4 tablespoons flour
2 tablespoons milk
4 cups confectioners’ sugar
1 cup shortening
Beat egg whites until stiff. Add remaining in
gredients and mix. Spread between two cook
ies.
specific and accurate with measurements, temperatures,
times, and sizes of baking dishes to use. We may disquali
fy entries if these guidelines are not followed.
Along with the recipe include your complete mailing
address so we can send you a prize if you’re a winner. In
addition please enter one recipe per family. Contest par
ticipants must be 18 or older.
Send entries to Lou Ann Good, Lancaster Farming
Beef Recipe Contest, P.O. Box 609, 1 East Main Street.
Ephrata, PA 17522.