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1 teaspoon dry or regular mus-
tard
1 cup sugar
Vi cup vinegar
1 tablespoon flour
2 eggs
Combine all ingredients but
eggs. Bring to a boil and cook
several minutes. Remove from
heat and cool. Add 2 beaten eggs
and bring to a full boil for a min
ute or two. Makes about one
pint. Add two quarts diced pota
toes and whatever else you wish
to use such as a little onion, a few
carrots, celery seed and a couple
hard-boiled eggs, chopped.
My mother, Ruth Seager, al
ways enjoys working outside. She
helped my dad in the field and
enjoys her garden and raising her
own vegetables.
Flowers are another of her fa
vorites.
Her church is very important
to her. She has been active in
Women’s Society and has played
the piano and organ for 65 years.
She will be 84 in July.
Linda Seager
Blaln
CHEESY RICE BAKE
1 small onion, minced
Vi cup butter
4-ounce can chopped green
chilies (optional)
8-ounces cottage cheese
1 cup sour cream
2 cups cooked rice
8-ounces shredded cheddar
cheese
Saute onion in butter until ten
der. Stir in chilies (optional), cot
tage cheese, sour cream, and rice.
Spread mixture in 13x9x2-inch
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baking dish; top with cheddar
cheese. Bake covered in 350 de
grees for 25-35 minutes. Makes
16-20 servings.
Diana Bigelow
Blair Co. Dairy Princess
RACHEL’S PEANUT
BUTTER COOKIES
1 cup lard
1 cup peanut butter
1 cup sugar
1 cup brown sugar
2 eggs
Mix together all ingredients
and add:
2Vi cups sifted flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
Mix well, roll into balls. Place
on cookie sheet. Press with fork
to make a crisscross. Bake at 375
degrees for 8-10 minutes.
A very special lady came
into my life 17 years ago. De
spite our age difference we be
came the best friends. Her
name was Rachel Smeltzer,
who helped me become the per
son I am today. By her exam
ple, she taught me the value of
a simple life, family, and to
live by the fruits of the Spirit
listed in Ga1.5:22-23 (love,
joy, peace, patience, kindness,
goodness, faithfulness, gentle
ness, and self control).
We never missed a day with
out talking or my visiting. We
spent hours in our rockers by
the cookstove, solving the
problems of the world and just
being together. There is so
much / learned from her. We
canned meat, vegetables, and
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for fast and easy
storage
fruit, made Jam and soap, all
on the cookstove.
Rachel taught me how to
quilt and all about farming,
and always saved “Lancaster
Farming ’’for me to read.
Rachel also shared her
bread and pies and other tasty
dishes. No canned or frozen
food was ever in her home. Ev
erything was made from
scratch.
Rachel filled a void in my
life and my heart and I love
her very much. She is now with
God and I miss her terribly.
We shared quality time togeth
er and had fun no matter what
we were doing. I was with her
the day she died and was able
to tell her one last time, “I love
you and thank you for loving
me, for being my friend
Debbie Reynolds
Wrighfsville
CABBAGE MEAL-IN-ONE
1 small head cabbage
1 cup hot water
1 cup onion
2 cups canned tomatoes
1 pound ground beef
Salt and pepper to taste
/* cup raw rice
Vz teaspoon oregano
Cut cabbage in wedges and
place in greased 3-quart casse
role. Mix raw ground beef, rice,
and onion, and arrange between
wedges. Combine tomatoes,
water, and seasoning and pour
over top. Cover the casserole and
bake at 350 degrees for V/z hours.
Betty Biehl
Mertztown
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Spring is the time for colorful
flowers on the trees and bushes.
Many people have beautiful
beds of red and yellow tulips
too. I’ve been digging flower
beds in order to plant annuals.
Petunias, impatiens, and dian
thus have been purchased from
three different stores.
Then our youngest daughter
added to the flower business by
sending me a bouquet of del
phiniums, daisies, iris, and tu
lips. She remembers me every
May 1 with a bouquet. This
year she sent them early as she
knew we planned to go away.
Even as a child, she picked
flowers along our lane and laid
them at the front door.
Last week, my husband
bought a load of hay at Green
Dragon near Ephrata for our
son to feed to his many heifers.
This gave me an opportunity to
browse in the produce area.
There was a great variety of
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vegetables and fruits plus
meats. I was surprised to see Je
rusalem artichokes. On the
farm, we always had a big row
of them to dig. My mother pick
led them, but I like them simply
cooked with salt and butter.
They have pretty yellow daisy
like flowers each fall just in
time for the children to take
some to school. Some things are
seasonal, like trimming the
grapes around the smokehouse
every spring.
Our asparagus patch is giving
us lots of produce to eat, freeze,
and to give away. We forgot to
check on it and the first picking
gave us 175 stems. Some were
thin, but good. The long row of
peas will be needing a fence
soon. However, the sweet peas
did not come up as the seed was
purchased last year. At that
time, we had red, purple, and
pink flowers to pick.
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