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Newspaper
Lancaster Farming
Location
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1956
Page
10
A Pennsylvania Dutch kitchen item features walnut flavor cookies using sugar, margarine, milk, flour, soda, and cream of tar, chilling overnight and baking in a moderate oven. A note highlights dried fruits as iron rich. Also included is a spiced fruit bread recipe with flour, baking powder, salt, sugar, and mace.
The poem celebrates the plain beauty of nature and enduring human values. It contrasts simple dawn air, flowers, and eyes with solid earth features like trees, a boulder, and a ship at sea. It ends praising faith, love among people, and a strong life.
A recipe lists ingredients for a spice currant bread including ground cloves nutmeg currants and eggs mixed with milk and shortening. It instructs combining dry ingredients with spices then adding the egg mixture and baking at 350 degrees for about an hour and a quarter in a greased loaf pan.
Sift dry ingredients then cut in shortening and add raisins bread crumbs egg milk and onion. Stir just until moistened. Drop by teaspoonfuls into water used to boil chicken. Cover and steam 20 minutes. Serve with broiled chicken.
A compact list for apricot pudding includes butter sugar eggs dried apricots bread crumbs cinnamon and baking soda. This line suggests a home kitchen dessert preparation with specific measures for each component.
Miss Ruth Kimble Lancaster County home economics representative will discuss Growing Old Gracefully at a Society of Farm Women meeting on February 16 at Mrs Henry Brubaker's Lititz home. Dr Samuel Hauck spoke at the Brubaker gathering, contributions were voted to Heart Haven, and Mrs Rachel Boll anger Lititz will host the March 3 meeting with Miss Margaret Hower as co host.
A recipe collection features a lemon scented apricot steamed pudding with lemon zest and milk, a prune and apricot fruit compote, and a prune cake with biscuit mix and mace. The note invites readers to send letters to the Women’s Page in Quarryville PA.
Farm Women 5 met at the home of Mrs Edith Longenecker in Manheim. They reported on the state convention in Harrisburg and held a memorial for late member Mrs Mary Hertzler. New member Mrs Miriam Graybill joined. Rosa and Ella Snavely presented a National Parks lecture. The next meeting is March 3 at Mrs Pauline Longenecker's home.
Farm Women 19 and 20 visit the Lancaster County Home and provide refreshments. The group met at Mrs Joseph Best's Kirkwood home with co-hostesses Mrs Best, Mrs Silas Rice, and Mrs Elam Hess. Mrs Park presided.
Members of the society sent delegates to the state convention in Harrisburg in January with reports. Mrs. Silas Rice to entertain at the March 1 meeting. Mrs. Louis G. Ferguson and Mrs. Carroll Greenleaf Jr. to assist as hostesses. A bake sale scheduled for March 3.
The Society of Farm Women No 6 holds a March 3 meeting at the Frey home in Elizabethtown with a demonstration by Robert Dysart of Pennsylvania Power and Light Co. Reports from the state meeting were given, devotional conducted, and a vocal solo performed. Auction followed. co hostesses named. a bus trip to the Philadelphia Flower Show on March 15 is planned with reservations led by Paul Brandt.
Lancaster prints listing of poultry auction prices at Rohrerstown with figures highlighted by Paul W. Martin. The notice emphasizes value and local interest in the sale.
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