816-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 28, 2003
Finish June
(Continued from Page BIS)
S A teaspoon salt
Vanilla Filling:
VA cup confectioners' sugar
3 tablespoons butter
6 teaspoons milk
’/< teaspoon vanilla
Cream butter, sugar, egg yolk,
milk, and vanilla. Combine flour,
cocoa, salt; blend into creamed
mixture. Chill dough until firm
enough to handle. Prepare vanil
la filling.
Roll dough into 1-inch balls.
Dip balls into beaten egg white,
roll in chopped walnuts. Place on
lightly greased cookie sheet. Press
thumb gently into center of each
cookie. Bake at 350 degrees for
10 minutes or until set. Cool,
then spoon 'A teaspoon vanilla
Ailing into “thumbprint.” Gently
press Hershey Kiss on top of va
nilla filling.
My husband, Mervin. and I,
live on a dairy farm in Leba
non County with our six sons,
there's never a dull moment.
These cookies are a treat for us
all at Christmastime. I like to
make them for cookie ex
changes and for gifts. God bless
you all!
Louise Horst
Ncwmanstown
BREAKFAST DELIGHT
Bottom Part:
VA cup milk
'A teaspoon salt
dash of pepper
10 saltine crackers
Top Part;
9 eggs
4 tablespoons cream
'A teaspoon salt
dash of pepper
Vi cup sausage or ham pieces
1 tablespoon butter
'A cup shredded cheese
Put crackers in the bottom of a
I‘/’-quart serving dish. Combine
the milk, salt, and pepper in a
saucepan, heat until scalded.
Pour over crackers.
In a heavy skillet, fry the sau
sage in the melted butter. Add
the eggs, cream, salt, and pepper.
Scramble. Spoon over cracker
mixture and sprinkle with
shredded cheese. Let set 5 min
utes before serving, Makes 6 serv
ings. b>
/ live with my parents, three
sisters, and three brothers on a
farm in Union County. Besides
working part-time at a bulk
food store, I enjoy cooking and
working in the garden and
flowerbeds.
Our whole family likes reci
pes made with plenty of dairy
products like this one.
Naomi Oberholtzer
Mifflinburg
DRIED-BEEF DIP
1 package (8-ounce) cream
Tracy Leidy’s son,
Shane, at the races. This
was his first win.
Dairy Month With Flair
cheese
VA cups shredded cheddar
cheese
Vi cup sour cream
2 to VA ounces dried beef,
diced
'A cup chopped green onions
Vi cup chopped green and red
peppers
2 teaspoons Worcestershire
sauce
1 loaf round rye bread
assorted raw vegetables
In a mixing bowl, combine the
cream cheese, cheddar cheese,
and sour cream. Stir in the beef,
onions, peppers, and Worces
tershire sauce. Cut the top fourth
off the loaf of bread; carefully
hollow out bottom, leaving a
1-inch shell. Cube removed bread
and top of loaf; set aside.
Fill bread shell with beef mix
ture. Wrap in foil; place on a
baking sheet. Bake at 350 degrees
for 60-70 minutes or until heated
through. Serve with vegetables
and reserved bread cubes. Makes
3 cups.
When having friends over, I
rely on this dip. It’s tasty and
everyone likes it. It’s also a hit
around the holidays.
My husband, Craig, and I,
have three children. We sold
our cows two years ago because
of the milk prices, but Craig
works on a dairy farm. I hope
folks enjoy this recipe because
our family does.
PEANUT BUTTER
ICE CREAM
2' A pounds sugar
3 cans canned milk
5 eggs
S tablespoons cornstarch
1 jar (28-ounce) smooth peanut
butter
1 teaspoon vanilla (to taste)
Pour 1 quart of milk in a pan
with the cornstarch. Cook until
stiff. Add peanut butter. Mix in
the rest of the ingredients. Pour
in ice cream maker. Makes about
6 quarts.
My great-grandma passed
this recipe down to us. It is one
of our favorites. My dad and /
are farming a little over 170
acres. We grow com, hay, soy
beans, and wheat. We’re think
ing about planting rice, if the
rain doesn’t stop! Rain or no
rain, we’re thankful for all of
God’s blessings; especially the
privilege to farm.
Lisa Ann Deardorff
Lewisberry
COFFEE PUDDING
6 cups milk (divided)
'A cup thermflo
1 cup sugar
3 teaspoons instant coffee
1 tablespoon butter
1 tablespoon vanilla
Mix and heat 5 cups milk,
sugar, and coffee. Mix 1 cup milk
with thermflo. Stir into hot milk.
Bring to a boil. Remove from
heat; add butter and vanilla. Cool
and add 8 ounces whipped
cream. Garnish with cookie
crumbs, if desired.
This is my favorite pudding
recipe because it is delicious
and easy to make. My husband
and our daughters, Mary Jane,
3; and Martha Ann, 22 months,
love it, too. We also have a
3-month-old daughter, Malin
da.
We are not dairy farmers,
but we do feed about 50 heifers
for other farmers.
Lena Weaver
Ephrata
WONDER COFFEE CAKE
2 cups pastry flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon soda
Vi teaspoon salt
1 cup butter, softened
1 cup sugar
1 cup sour cream or sour milk
2 eggs
Crumb Topping:
Vi cup brown sugar
V* cup sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 cup chopped nuts
Mix ingredients together in
mixing bowl. Put in two
13x9-inch cake pans. Line one
pan with waxpaper. Bake at 350
degrees for 30 minutes or till
done. Cool, then put regular
frosting on top of cake that is not
on waxpaper. Flip the waxpaper
cake on top of the frosting cake
and top with crumbs.
This is one of our favorite
cakes.
CINNAMON CHAI
V* cup powdered coffee
creamer
1 cup powdered sugar
Vi cup instant tea (without
Sugar or lemon)
Vi cup sugar
1 Vi cups dry milk
3 teaspoons cinnamon
Mix all ingredients together.
Stir approximately 3 tablespoons
into a cup of hot milk.
We enjoy reading the Lan
caster Farming paper every
week.
Helen Fester
Berwick
We milk Holsteins in south
ern Northumberland County.
Ruth Schaffer
Dornsife
COCONUT ANGEL
SQUARES
1 prepared angel food cake,
cut in cubes
V/i cups cold milk
2 packages (3.4-ounce) instant
coconut cream pudding
1 quart vanilla ice cream, soft
ened
1 carton (8-ounce) frozen
whipped topping, thawed,
or real whipped cream
In a mixing bowl, beat milk
and pudding mixes on low speed
for 2 minutes. Add ice cream;
beat on low just till combined.
Mix with angel food cake cubes
and put in 13x9-inch greased
dish. Top with whipped topping,
or you can mix it in the mix in
stead of topping with it. Sprinkle
'A cup flaked, toasted coconut on
top. Cover and chill at least 1
hour. Refrigerate leftovers.
Makes 12-15 servings. This is also
good with other flavors of ice
cream and pudding.
This truly tastes like a coco
nut cream pie without all the
work!
/ enjoy your paper, ads, and
all. The antique section was a
great addition. Keep up the
good work.
CHOCOLATE CHIP
MUFFINS
2 cups flour
'A cup sugar
1 tablespoon baking powder
legg
V* cup milk
'A cup vegetable oil
3 A cup mini-semisweet choco
late chips
Mix all ingredients and pour
into 12 paperlined muffin cups.
Bake at 400 degrees for 18-20
minutes. Cool 5 minutes before
removing to cool.
These muffins are extremely
quick and easy, and my family
eats the whole batch if / make
them and take them to the bam
with us over evening chores. My
Brenton Keith, 2, and Jennifer Rose, 4, are the children
of Joanna and Keith Horning.
husband, Darryl, and I, milk
45 registered Jerseys and farm
about 65 acres of crop ground,
I have a small home business.
We have three healthy children
who help us around the farm.
Abigail, 6; Albert, 2; and Adri
anna, 1. The kids have 25
chickens from which they have
great fun selling the eggs and a
roadside stand in the fall for
pumpkins.
We are riding out these low
milk prices and are hoping for
a brighter future. Despite all
the negatives, this is a noble
way to spend a life.
Jonas Stoltzfus
Bird-In-Hand
BAKED MACARONI AND
CHEESE CROCKPOT
STYLE
1 stick of butter
2 cups uncooked elbow maca
roni
1 large container of small curd
cottage cheese
2 cups of shredded cheddar
cheese
21/ cups boiling water
In crackpot, cut butter into
small pieces; add uncooked mac
aroni; add cottage cheese; sprin
kle shredded cheddar over cot
tage cheese; pour boiling water
evenly in crackpot. Stir gently.
Cook 4-S hours on low.
I am the mother of five chil
dren, Shane, Chance, Paige,
Megan, and Luke, ages six
through 14. My husband,
David, is self-employed and I
work as a nurse. We live on a
small farm and are always
busy with kids, chores, or work.
The kids are all very active in
sports, dance, and racing go
carts. We enjoy camping and
traveling.
HEARTY HAMBURGER
SOUP
2 tablespoons butter
1 pound ground beef
1 cup onion
2 cups tomato juice
1 cup sliced carrots
Vi cup chopped celery
1 cup diced potatoes
1 teaspoon seasoned salt
1 to l'/2 teaspoon salt
'/»teaspoon pepper
4 cups milk
'A cup flour
Debra Shultz
Halifax
Melt butter in large skillet or
kettle and brown meat and
onion. Stir in next seven ingredi
ents. Cover and simmer till vege
tables are tender. About 20-25
minutes. Combine flour with one
cup milk. Stir into soup and
bring to a boil. Add remaining
milk and heat. Do not let it boil.
Enjoy!
My husband, Keith, and I,
with our two children, Jennifer,
4; and Brenton, 2, live on a
dairy farm in Lebanon County.
/ always look forward to June
recipes and also like to read the
other articles in the B-section.
Crush the crackers and mix
with the butter. Press into a
9x13-inch pan. Save a few crum
bs for the top.
Soften the ice cream about Vi
hour. Mix in vanilla pudding.
Mix the milk and whipped top
ping together and pour over the
cracker crumbs. Refrigerate
about 6 hours before serving.
This recipe will hold well in a re
frigerator for a week.
My husband, Willard, and /
built a house on a piece of land
of the farm he was bom and
raised on. We celebrated our
48th wedding anniversary on
June 4th. We have three sons,
Rodney, Jeffrey, and Kirk, two
grandsons, and one grand
daughter. Willard is retired
from constmction and works
parttime for Perry Township. /
work at the Kwik Shoppe
Drive-In in Shoemakersville
where I have been working ‘for
29 years and have also worked
13 years as a demonstrator for
Candle-Land parties of Myers
town.
Becky Reiter
Narvon
/ love reading Lancaster
Farming and cutting out the
recipes and trying them all out.
My husband enjoys reading all
the sales ads. He renewed his
subscription at the Pa. Farm
Show and he got a free hat. He
has a hat collection.
1 box Devil's Food cake mix
1 small package instant choco
late pudding
4 eggs
Vi cup oil
1 Vi cups milk
Filling:
2 egg whites
2 teaspoons vanilla
4 tablespoons flour
2 tablespoons milk
1 cup shortening
1 box confectioners’ sugar
Tracy Leidy
Mercersburg
For cake mix together ingredi
ents. Divide into two lined jelly
roll pans with sides. Put alumi
num foil in each pan then spray
with non-stick spray. Pour batter
into pans. Bake at 350 degrees
for IS minutes. Remove from
pans. Cool.
For filling combine ingredients
and beat well, then add 1 box of
confectioners’ sugar and beat
until fluffy. Put filling between
cakes.
/ always look forward to en
tering a recipe at this time of
year. My husband. Jay, and /
live on a 100-acre dairy farm.
We milk 50 cows, and have
50-75 heifers. With also have
four children, it is definitely a
busy life-style so Pm always
looking for quick and easy reci
pes.
Our family loves chocolate
whoopie pies and this is Just one
of many ways that / simplify
my life. I also get many calls re
questing this recipe.
Joanna Horning
Lebanon
ICE CREAM DESSERT
60 Ritz crackers
V* cup butter
'A gallon ice cream
2 packages (4-ounce) instant
vanilla pudding
I I A cup milk
1 8-ounce whipped topping
Shirley Dreibelbis
Hamburg
WHOOPIE CAKE
Pam Funk
Lancaster