Recipe for Butter Cupcakes and Sweet Notes to Readers
A Lancaster Farming reader from Al New Holland submits a butter cupcake recipe using three quarters cup butter two cups sugar three cups flour one cup milk three eggs and baking powder with vanilla. A note from Manheim writer L Lefever thanks a reader for a requested poem The Lost Lamb and asks to withhold her name in print. KE of Mount Joy asks for privacy while sending another recipe.
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Lena Hoover
al New Holland
Lancaster
L. H. Lefever
Manheim
Mount Joy
Lancaster Farming
Old Fashioned Corn Pone Mix Guide
Simple recipe listing ingredients for corn pone batter. Includes corn meal flour baking powder sugar salt egg milk and melted shortening with no precise instructions beyond mixing and baking expectations implied. Describes a classic quick bread base suitable for old time meals.
Free To Women Weekly Subscriptions Offer
A newspaper note invites housewives to submit a post letter with a recipe or home making hint. One year charter subscription to Lancaster Farming will be awarded weekly to a selected reader. Send letters to Lancaster Farming, Quarryville, Pa.
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Lancaster Farming
Quarryville
Farm Women 22 Plans Mother and Daughter Banquet
Final plans for the Farm Women's Society 22 mother and daughter banquet were set for May 4 at 7 p.m. in Kauffman's Tea Room East Petersburg. The group met at 1 30 p.m. at Mrs Hebron Herrs home with Mrs Willis Rohrer presiding. Discussions covered Homemakers Day at First Presbyterian Church Lancaster on April 25 and charity contributions to the Cancer Society Crippled Children Migrant Workers Fund. Miss Elinor Harsh reviewed Rolling North. Next meeting will swap to the banquet replacing the regular session.
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Farm Women’s Society
Kauffman
East Petersburg
Willis Rohrer
Hebron Herr
Willow Street
First Presbyterian Church
Lancaster
Cancer
Apple Blossom Cake and Reader Recipes Clip
A Bareville reader shares recipes and tips including an Apple Blossom Cake with layered batter and chocolate variation, plus cake and dessert ideas. Tips cover ironing dampening with warm water, vinegar for sparkling windows, and flower care with aspirin water, all from Lancaster Farming readers.
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New Holland
Lancaster
Springs Romance Turns Cold as Winter Returns
A playful verse contrasts Spring's flirtation with Winter's chill. The speaker recalls donning a new spring suit to court Spring, receiving affectionate kisses, then being abandoned as Winter resumes dominance. He vows to keep winter clothes ready until Spring commits.
Farm Women 21 Conduct Flower Seed Exchange
Society of Farm Women No 21 met at the Peach Bottom home of Mrs Charles Tindall on Thursday afternoon April 12. Members named their favorite flowers during roll call and a flower seed exchange followed. Treasurer Ruth Heidelbaugh reported 110.20, secretary Miriam Dubble gave her report. The group voted $5 to the Migrant Workers Fund and Mrs Howard Steinberg led a plastic demonstration. Next meeting May 10 will host mothers of members.
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Society of Farm Women No. 21
Charles Tindall
Peach Bottom
Zenith Graybill
Lillian Cooper
Ruth Heidelbaugh
Miriam Dubble
Clair DeLong
Migrant Workers’ Fund
Howard Steinberg
Betty Griffith
Marty Shenk
Alice Russell
Cooked Coconut Milk Pudding From Cornstarch Mixture
A recipe note describes heating milk, thickening with cracker crumbs and coconut, then adding vanilla. Whips in egg. Text continues on page 9.
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