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Newspaper
Lancaster Farming
Location
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1955
Page
2
Farm Women feature continues with a Walnut Pie recipe using walnuts eggs sugar molasses and flour baked in two shells for 35 minutes at 350 degrees. A reader from Willow Street thanks Lancaster Farming and shares a carrot bread crumb milk onion mixture recipe.
Dr Scholl's representatives will bring a full mobile unit to Martin Hoffman Shoe Store on S Railroad Avenue on December 17 from 9 AM to 5 PM. The event showcases women and children sizes 3 to 13 and men sizes 5% to 16 with Dr Scholl's arch supports and foot remedies. No charge unless you keep the product after fitting. Phone 4-8064 for appointments.
December 29 is set for the Family Christmas Party of Farm Women's Society No 1 at Town's End Lititz the home of Mrs Margaret Hopkins. Planning the covered dish social are Mrs Milton Brubaker Mrs Curtis Long and Mrs Melvin Snyder. President is Mrs Neil Clark. Next meeting is Saturday Jan 7 at Mrs Simon R Snyder's home Rt Ephrata co hosts Mrs Clayton Royer and Mrs Martin Moore Lititz.
A collection of reader submitted recipes notes butter eggs and seasonings for a corn dish with bacon and a chestnut filling. Names and addresses accompany the letters along with requests to add the sender to a mailing list and a Denver Christmas cookie recipe with walnuts and raisins.
Husbands were guests of Farm Women's Society 19 at Hostetter's Restaurant Mount Joy Saturday. A Jan 7 meeting was announced at Mrs Christian Musser Landisville home. Music by Hazel Stauffer Lou Yoder Bertha Hottenstein Corrine Nissley. Gertrude Langrey read An Old Fashioned Christmas. Lou Yoder led carol singing. Prof Elmer Hoover Leacher spoke on Nothing But the Best. Secret Sisters revealed.
A home baking note from Mrs Russell K Hillegass of Leacock shares a recipe for walnut drops. Mix flour soda cream sugar butter and eggs then fold in walnuts raisins and cinnamon bake at 350 degrees. The message also praises Lancaster Farming and offers household hints for readers.
A kitchen tip advises cutting a small pea sized piece from both ends of each potato before baking. This prevents bursting and ensures the potato bakes evenly through.
A household tip advises placing soap filled steel wool pads in a small glass jar with enough baking soda to cover the bottom, then sealing the lid to make the pad last indefinitely. The text also references Mrs Hillegass offering an uncooked salad dressing recipe using butter eggs salt mayonnaise and Borden's sweetened product.
John J. Oberholtzer of Birdin Hand was chosen president and Robert C. Groff of Quarryville was named vice president at a Lampeter Strasburg High School meeting. J Lloyd Rohrer Lancaster secretary Ira Welk Strasburg treasurer Donald Kaufman Willow Street reporter Raymond Landis Lancaster chaplain. Frank Hennessey of the Philadelphia IRS spoke on income tax and social security rules for farmers.
A home dressing made from condensed milk vinegar eggs and various ingredients yields over a quart of dressing that lasts weeks in the fridge. Apricot and pear honey recipe from Mrs Elmer H Sensemy lists apricots pears and sugar, soaked and chopped, then cooked until well done.
A letter from Mrs. Ivy E Good of East Earl endorses Lancaster Farming recipes and submits a $1 charter subscription. Mrs. Clyde N Espenshade of Elizabethtown reports a son with the 5039th Airborne Division in Alaska and shares a window cleaning tip using vinegar.
A fragment shows a social exchange about marriage and regret, contrasting feelings toward Billy and others.
Newly elected officers of Farm Women’s Society 6 will be installed Saturday January 7 at 2 PM in the home of Mrs Daniel Eshleman R2 Elizabeth town Co hosts will be Mrs Harry Longenecker and Mrs Irvin Shoop. The group held a Family Night Christmas party at the Elizabethtown Fire Hall with a covered dish supper and various performances by members and local students.
This recipe describes a crumb cake using three cups flour two and a half cups baking powder two cups sugar and fat mixture of lard and butter. It instructs forming crumbs setting aside one cup, folding in egg yolks and stiff whites, adding milk and flavoring, filling three crusts, topping with crumbs and baking in a moderate oven.
A reader Mrs W Norval BrooneH of R2 Notting ham encloses $1 for one year's subscription claiming interest in Household Hunts and Dutch recipes as part of Lan caster Farming content.
Readers are asked to submit Dutch recipes for the Women’s Page. Envelopes should be marked “Women’s Page Lancaster Farming” and mailed with the contributor’s name and address.
The message thanks supporters for their recipes and letters and promises more content next week. It notes ongoing efforts in the kitchen and invites continued engagement as the program looks ahead to new ideas and activities.
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