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QUESTION Verna Juchy, Middletown,
wants a recipe for rhubarb crisp made in a mi
crowave.
QUESTION Shirley Orfanella, Quarryville,
wants a recipe for wet walnuts to put on ice
cream. She also wants information on how to
preserve walnuts since they harvest lots of
English walnuts in the fall.
QUESTION Mrs. Thomas Vandzuna, Port
age, requests a recipe for sweet sausage. Her
son brought some and they love it. Their family
buys half a hog and mixes its own mix, and
would like to try sweet sausage the next time.
QUESTION Stephanie Luckenbaugh, Ab
bottstown, lost the recipe for switzel, which
she had clipped from her column. She would
like the recipe for “this very thirst-quenching
drink.”
QUESTION Stephanie Luckenbaugh, Ab
bottstown, requests a good recipe to make Leb
anon bologna.
QUESTION Sue Hurley, Newville, requests
recipes to make different kinds of instant pow
dered tea mixes, such as raspberry and peach.
QUESTION A subscriber would appreci
ate if anyone would share a recipe for making a
tasty apple pie spice from a combination of
spices as cinnamon, cloves, and ginger.
QUESTION A reader writes that many new
dessert recipes are featured in magazines and
newspaper, but she is reluctant to buy expen
sive ingredients for recipes that she isn’t sure
her family will like. She’d rather try recipes that
other readers enjoy. The reader would like
some new dessert recipes that other readers
recommend.
QUESTION Audrey Brown, Connellsville,
writes that her doctor put her on a fructose/
sucrose-free diet. She is not allowed to eat any
thing with sugar, barley flour, brown rice,
wheat germ, coldcuts, fruits, etc. She cannot
find recipes for food that tastes good and
makes a one-to-two person serving. Anyone
able to help her?
QUESTION Rosalie Nolt wants a recipe for
New England clam chowder, similar to Friend
ly’s or Campbell's soup.
QUESTION A Pine Grove reader wants rec
ipes for different kinds of soft pretzels and dif
ferent coatings for chicken and vegetables for
deep frying.
QUESTION Josephy Steffey wants a recipe
for deer bag bologna that tastes like Lebanon
bologna.
QUESTION - Beth, Hampstead, Md., re
quests a recipe for oriental chicken salad that
tastes like that served at Appleby’s.
QUESTION Barbie Beiler would like to
have a recipe for cinnamon French bread sticks
that taste like those served at restaurant break
fast buffets.
QUESTION A reader wants some diabetic
bread recipes that can be made in a bread ma
chine.
Tour Shippensburg Gardens June 9
SHIPPENSBURG (Cumberland Co.) The 16th an
nual Shippensburg Garden Tour will feature quite a vari
ety of garden settings. As always, the tour will highlight a
number of different type gardens which will be of interest
to a wide variety of tour-goers.
In addition to the four gardens in Shippensburg, this
year’s tour includes gardens rarely seen in this area. Two
of the gardens, located in the Greencastle area, are on the
tour at the owners’ invitation.
One of the gardens claims more than 40,000 annuals
planted each year in beautifully designed gardens, a
building to accommodate 7,800 persons, and beautiful
gardens and ponds a perfect setting for 25 weddings
planned for that site this year. The other garden in that
area is also unique, featuring 51 flower beds with a wide
variety of annuals, bulbs, and shrubbery. A wooded area,
a pool, ponds, shade gardens, and more formal gardens
will be intriguing to those who attend.
ANSWER Here is a recipe for shoo-fly pie
and crust and a poem sent in by Alta Sensenig,
Newville, in honor of her mother. Alta writes
that she hopes and trusts that she too can one
day teach her children the wonderful art of
cooking.
Mamma’s Recipes
Mamma’s the finest cook on earth.
She told me long ago,
Bread’s no good unless you add
Some loving to the dough.
and when you’re baking pies, she said,
“A pinch of faith and trust.
If added to the shortening
Makes a flaky, tender crust. ”
Compassion by the spoonful
In the batter of a cake
Makes it come out light and fluffy
And the finest you can make.
Now these things canot be purchased
In the store across the way.
But Mamma keeps them in her heart
And uses them each day.
Wet-Bottom Shoo-Fly Pie
1 cup flour
% cup brown sugar
V* teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon shortening
1 cup molasses
1 egg
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 cup hot water
Combine flour, brown sugar, salt, and short
ening until crumbly. Save % cup crumbs for
topping. Combine baking powder and hot
water. Add remaining ingredients. Pour into un
baked pie sheel. Top with 3 A cup reserved
crumbs. Makes one pie. Bake 10 minutes at
375 degrees. Reduce heat to 350 degrees and
bake an additional 30 minutes.
Flaky Pie Crust
1 % cups flour
Vz teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
Vz cup shortening
3 tablespoons milk or cold water
Combine dry ingredients. Cut in shortening.
Add milk.
This is the family’s favorite shoo-fiy recipe.
For variety, add 1 teaspoon vanilla, a dash of
nutmeg and cinnamon. Add 1 cup nuts to the
crumbs for topping.
ANSWER Rhoda Conover, Gettysburg, sent
in this recipe for homemade noodle dough.
Homemade Noodle Dough
2'A-2Vz cups flour
2 eggs
1 egg yolk
1 tablespoon oil
1 teaspoon salt
Vs cup water
Combine ingredients in food processor and
process a few minutes or mix by hand. Knead.
Let rest 30 minutes. Roll out dough and cut into
3 /s- 1 /4-inch strips with pizza or pastry cutter.
Cook as desired.
ANSWER Betty Smith, West Chester,
sends in this recipe for making peach butter.
Grape butter is made the same way she writes.
She has been using this quick and easy method
for years.
Wash, pit, and quarter IVa dozen ripe
peaches. Skin may be left on. Add a little water
to bottom of pan. Cook until soft. Put through
food mill. Use:
5 cups fruit pulp
7Vi cups sugar
Vz pouch Certo
Put fruit into large pan, add sugar, and mix
well. Bring to a full rolling boil, boil hard one
minute. Remove from heat, stir in Certo. Skim
off foam. Ladle into jars and seal.
Peach Butter
A plant sale will be featured, free refreshments will be
served, and entertainment will be provided by the Ship
pensburg German Band.
Cost for this year’s tour will be $6 in advance, $8 on the
day of the tour, and students, $2.50. Tickets will be avail
able from the church members of Christ U.M. Church, at
the church during morning hours from 9 a.m.-noon, Moh
day-Friday. Tickets will also be available at Criders’
Meats on Old Scotland Road, Shippensburg, East Meets
West and Edwards’ Mercantile in downtown Shippens
burg, or for information or tickets call Rose Dillner at
(717) 532-8155.
Checks should be made out to Christ U.M. Church
Garden Tour and be enclosed with a 34-cent stamp for
each ticket booklet ordered.
Tour includes:
Shippensburg Peace Garden
About 10 years ago, Pauline Underwood, a lifelong pro
ponent for universal peace, envisioned a community gar
den dedicated to peace and the preservation of the earth.
When the Park and Recreation Department granted the
land for the garden, two grants have been received and
the present landscape design has developed.
A wide variety of specimen trees, roses, and shrubs are
included in the beautiful color scheme of deep reds, pinks
and silvery whites chosen for the garden. Visitors to the
garden tour will have the opportunity to ask Master Gar
deners, who will be present at this site, about the various
trees and shrubs.
New additions include a Nine-Bark “Diablo,” “Forest
Pansy” Redbud, and Viburnum “Ononadaga,” A peaceful
place to visit anytime you are in Shippensburg, but espe
cially today when you can learn about the plantings.
Mervin And Esther Carver
25 Stewart Place
Shippensburg, PA 17257
(The plant sale will be at this site.)
The Carver yard was on the tour six years ago.
This is an example of a shade garden with a wide vari
ety of perennials grown here. A small lily pond acts as a
centerpiece for the various beds and flowering trees.
Herbs are of special interest and are included in the plant
ings.
Bob And Mary Heefher
3 MainsviDe Road
Shippensburg, PA 17257
(Refreshments and the German band will be at this
site.)
It is not a surprise to find out that Esther Carver (Gar
den 2) is Mary Heefher’s sister. The entire family are avid
gardeners. Mary’s garden was also on the tour six years
ago. The Heefher garden has a tremendous selection of
bulbs, plants, and ornamental grasses. Mary arranges
flowers at Weis Market (Cressler’s Marketplace) and her
eye for coordinating designs and colors flows into her gar
den. She has added another mini garden and a miniature
rose garden.
Les And Es Martin
900 Olde Scotland Road
Shippensburg, PA 17257
This unique wooded site is beautiful. It will be a plea
sure for you to see what lies beyond the bridge you cross
to get to this location. The pool and patio are located be
hind the house. The front yard area includes the wooded
area and is quaintly decorated with Es’ creativity.
This property nestles right into this location and uti
lizes the natural landscape with their own.
Jerry And Arlene Martin
1032 Buchanan Trail East
(Rt. 16 E)
Greencastle, PA 17225
Just 1.1 miles off of Rt. 81 south at exit 5, you will
make a startling discovery. This amazing site will cater to
25 weddings this year and there are 40,000 flower plants
arranged into designs and patterns throughout the
18-acre site.
Rev. Merle And Beulah Cordell
8979 Grindstone Hill Road
Chambersburg, PA 17201
Located near the Martin property, this is an amazing
display of blooming color. It is a residt of years of nurtur
ing plant cuttings, storing favorite canna bulbs, and buy
ing needed plants to fill 51 flower beds. Last year the Cor
dells shared their garden with more than 1,000 visitors.
Extension Workshop For
Child Care Providers
WEST CHESTER (Chester Co.) “Child Care
For Mixed Ages” is the title of the workshop being
presented by Penn State Cooperative Extension at 7
p.m. to 9 p.m. on Thurs., June 6 at the center, 601
Wcsttown Road, Suite 370, in West Chester.
Trudy Dougherty, family living agent, said,
“child care providers will get ideas on how to make
caring for children of different ages work. They will
discuss some of the problems that arise when caring
for children in a mixed age group.”
For more information on the program, support
materials, and other services from the “Better Kid
Care Program,” call Trudy Dougherty at (610)
696-3500. Visit the Better Kid Care Website at
www.betterkidcare.psu.edu.