Dairy Recipe Entries Wrap Up June Dairy Month (Continued from Page B 16) cheese V* cup shredded Parmesan cheese 2 tablespoons lemon juice Cook linguinc according to package directions. Meanwhile, in a skillet over low heat, melt butter. Stir in flour, salt, and pep per until smooth. Gradually stir in milk. Bring to a boil and stir two minutes or until thickened. Remove from heat. Combine cheese, toss with lemon juice. Add to the sauce, stir until Cheese begins to melt. Drain linguine; add the cheese sauce and toss to coat. Enjoy! This is a very good recipe. It’s just enough for two people, but / double it for my family of five. We live on a farm, but we just sold our milk cows a year ago. We are now raising re placement heifers. I think my husband and I and our children needed a break after 20 years. Some day my husband and I would like to go back into milking but God only knows. So we are enjoying a little to gether time with each other. I hope you folks enjoy this reci pe! WASHINGTON CHEESECAKE Crust; 1 cup cinnamon sugar graham cracker crumbs 3 tablespoons sugar 3 tablespoons melted butter Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Combine crumbs, sugar, and but ter; press into bottom of 9-inch springfomj at 325,. de grees ror 10 minute/ Remove from oven, and increase oven temperature to 450 degrees. Cake: 3 8-ounce packages cream cheese at room temperature. V* cup sugar 2 tablespoons flour 3 large eggs 2 tablespoons milk 1 tablespoon vanilla extract or 1 teaspoon pure vanilla. Combine softened cream cheese, sugar, and flour, mixing at medium speed until well blended. Add eggs, one at a time, mixing well after each addition. Blend in milk and vanilla. Pour mixture over crust. Bake at 450 degrees for 10 minutes. Reduce oven temperature to 250 degrees, continue baking 25-30 minutes until toothpick or knife comes out clean. Remove from oven to wire rack, cool 5 minutes, then run knife around cake pan to loosen from rim of pan. Cool completely before removing rim of pan. Topping: Make a clear sugar sauce: Fourth Of July Initiative DES MOINES, lowa As Americans gear up to celebrate life, liberty and the pursuit of outdoor fun for the Fourth of July holiday, the National Pork Checkoffs Pork Information Bu reau (PIB) is promoting all- American pork ribs as a cele bration of delicious independence from everyday grilled meals. The Checkoff-funded PIB this year is showing consumers about the versatility of pork ribs and highlighting ribs as the natural summer cookout choice for the Fourth of July. A print and radio initiative that focuses on ribs pre pared with an ethnic twist is being conducted as part of this consumer effort. Dairy royalty in the Brubaker family includes, from left, Crystal, dairy ambassador; Candice, dairy darling, and Heather, Lancaster County alternate dairy princess. 2 tablespoons flour V*-Vi cup sugar l'/2-2 cups water Optional: 1 teaspoon lemon juice. Mix sugar and flour; slowly work in water until smooth,. Cook over medium heat or mi crowave until thickened. Remove from heat, cool. Add fruit of choice: strawber ries, cherries, blueberries, or kiwi slices. Mix gently, spoon over cheesecake, and serve, or spoon a 21-ounce can of cherry or blue berry pie filling over cheesecake to save time. Helen Fester Berwick 2 eggs 1 tablespoon flour 1 tablespoon softened butter 1 tablespoon sugar 1 teaspoon salt 1 pint com, (Whole or creamed 1 cup milk. Beat eggs and add ingredients. Mix well and pour into buttered casserole. Bake at 350 degrees until firm on top, approximately 45 minutes. For topping, crumble 2 bread crusts in fine pieces while V* cup butter browns. Toss crum bs in brown butter and sprinkle with salt. V* to 1 pound ground beef 1 small onion, chopped Salt and pepper to taste 1 16-ounce package frozen tater tot potatoes 1 can cream of mushroom soup (10 3 A ounces) Vi soup can milk 1 cup (four ounces) shredded cheddar cheese. In a large skillet, brown the meat and onion. Drain any fat. Season with salt and pepper. Place in a greased VA quart to 2 quart casserole dish. Top with tater tots. Combine soup and milk; pour over potatoes. Sprin- The effort includes distribution of a media kit to newspaper food editors nationwide encouraging them to write stories about the versatility of barbecued pork ribs. Also the kit includes three new recipes featuring sauces with multi-cultural influences. To reach more Americans with messages about ribs, representa tives from the PlB’s spokesper son network will conduct “DJ Drops” at radio stations in 13 key markets in the weeks leading up to the Fourth of July. Jill Appell, a pork producer from Altoona, 111., and a member of the Pork Checkoff Demand Enhancement Committee, said, Elizabeth Hauenstein Forest City SCALLOPED CORN Fannie Fisher Paradise QUICK TATER TOT BAKE kle with cheese. Bake at 350 de grees for 30-40 minutes. Yields 3-4 servings. We really like this casserole. Sometimes I put green beans on top of the hamburger. My husband Keith and I, with our two children, Jennifer, 3, and Brenton, Vh, live on a dairy farm near Annville. I re ally enjoy the June dairy reci pes. Joanna Homing Lebanon CREAMY PUDDING 2 quarts milk 1 cup evaporated milk V* cup granulated sugar Vi teaspoon salt 'A cup brown sugar 4 eggs Vi cup flour 'A cup cornstarch 2 tablespoons butter 2 teaspoons vanilla Vi teaspoon maple flavoring. Pour milk and evaporated milk into a saucepan. Add granu lated sugar and salt. Cook over medium heat until hot, but not boiling. Beat together brown sugar, eggs, flour, and corn starch. Add a little hot milk and stir. Pour into hot milk mixture and bring to a boil, stirring con stantly. Remove from heat. Whip in butter and flavorings. Cover with waxed paper and cool. When cool, whip again, it will make it lighter. Top with the following: 2 cups whipped topping Va cup graham cracker crumbs 1-2 tablespoons peanut butter Spread whipped topping over cooled pudding. Mix graham cracker crumbs and peanut but ter with a fork until it reaches de sired consistency. Just before serving, sprinkle over pudding. Christine Brubaker Womeisdorf BAKED FRENCH MUFFINS 5 tablespoons butter Vi cup sugar legg Promotes Pork Ribs As Cookout Choice “The DJ Drops will be a fun and effective means of using public relations to highlight pork ribs as the natural choice for Fourth of July celebrations. It also will demonstrate that pofk ribs are ideal to grill all summer.” DJ Drops are visits to targeted high-listenership radio stations by trained spokespeople during heavy-talk time periods, such as the morning commute. To make the visits fun and at tention-getting, the spokespeople will deliver all the fixings for an outdoor barbecue to DJs, includ ing the most important menu item a mouth-watering sam pling of “Latin Pork Back Ribs with Smoky Pineapple-Mango Vi cup milk 2'A teaspoons baking powder V «teaspoon salt 'A teaspoon nutmeg VA cups flour. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cream butter and sugar, and beat in egg. Add dry ingredients. Mix alternately with milk. Fill greased muffin tins about half full. Bake for 25 minutes. When done, brush with melted butter and roll in mixture of 'A cup sugar and 'A teaspoon cinnamon. Makes 1 dozen. / We have 45 cows on a dairy farm, and a greenhouse I like to wait customers off. I have a sister and three brothers. Vm 11 years old. My birthday is July 18. Rose Smucker Millersburg BAKED MACARONI AND CHEESE 3 tablespoons butter 2Vi cups uncooked macaroni 1 teaspoon salt 'A teaspoon pepper Vi pound Velveeta cheese 1 quart milk. Melt butter in 2-quart baking dish. Pour macaroni into melted butter; stir until butter coats mac aroni. Slice cheese and dice; add salt, pepper, cheese, and cold milk to macaroni. Bake uncover ed at 325 degrees for IVi hours. Don not stir while baking. This comes out of oven golden brown and creamy. This is a dish our whole family likes and it uses a lot of dairy products. My husband, James, and I live on a dairy farm with our four children, Jennifer, 7; Mi chael, 6; Amanda, 4; and Roe land, 2. Dairy products are often used in a lot of our meals. Our youngest son is not satis fied unless he has as glass of milk with every meal! Living on a farm is a great place to raise a family. Alma Burkholder Mifflinburg FUDGE 2 cups granulated sugar Vi cup of m ilk 1 cup butter 10 marshmallows 6 ounces chocolate chips Nuts (optional) Cook sugar and milk to soft ball stage. In a separate pan, over low heat, melt butter, marshmal lows, and chips. Mix the two and add 1 teaspoon vanilla flavoring. Nuts may be added if desired. Pour into greased 8-inch by 8-inch pan and cool before cut ting. My husband and / still live in a rural area of northern Maryland. We still love being outside city limits! Our chil dren are all grown and mar ried, but most live close to us. We enjoy the B Section of the paper and often try new rec ipes. Keep up the good work! Olivia Merryman Sauce.” The goal is to inspire im- permarket meat case and to the promptu on-air discussion about Checkoff-funded Web site, pork pork and ultimately to drive con- board.org. Whlteford, Md. BEST-EVER CHEESECAKE 2 cups graham cracker crumbs 2 tablespoons sugar Vi cup butter 4 8-ounce packages cream cheese, softened 1% cups sugar 7 eggs 3 8-ounce cartons commercial sour cream 1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon vanilla extract. Combine first 3 ingredients, mixing well. Firmly press mix hue into bottom of a greased 9-inch springform pan and chill thoroughly. Beat cream cheese with an electric mixer in a large mixing bowl until light and fluffy. Grad ually add VA cups sugar, mixing well. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Stir in sour cream and vanilla; mix well. Pour mixture into pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour and S min utes. Turn oven off. Allow cheesecake to cool in oven 4 hours, (do not open oven door.) Remove from oven. Loosely cover; refrigerate 12 hours. Re move sides from springform pan; transfer cheesecake to a serving platter. Cut into wedges and serve on chilled dessert dishes with strawberries or pie filling on top. Yield: 12-16 servings. Johnetta Pruitt Boyce, Va. WHIPPED MILK GELATIN 1 3-ounce package gelatin, any flavor 1 cup boiling water 1 cup milk. Add boiling water to gelatin. Stir until gelatin is dissolved. Cool until it begins to thicken. Add milk slowly, beating con stantly. Refrigerate until Arm. This is an easy dish to pre pare and children love it. We have three young children and they all enjoy dairy products. Marlene Martin Ephrata DIRT PUDDING 2 3-ounce packages vanilla in stant pudding 3 cups milk 8 ounce package cream cheese 8 ounces whipped cream top ping 12 ounces Oreo cookies. Mix milk and instant pudding. Add cream cheese and whipped topping, Beat together. Break cookies in plastic bag or food pro cessor. Line a 13-inch by 9-inch dish with Vi of the cookies, then pudding. Place remainder of cookies on top. This is a good recipe to dou ble and take to a church din ner. It is light and tasty after you’ve already had a large meal. It is, for sure, the most favorite dessert of our family. Betsy Derstine Mansfield (Turn to Page C 2) sumer traffic to pork in the su-