Giant cookies prove big treats and bigger problems
Barbara Beam, Lancaster County Extension Agent Assistant, notes giant cookies or farmer's cookies come from an old recipe. The cookies simplify baking by using one large batch instead of many small ones though they can be hard to handle and may tempt someone to eat the whole thing.
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John Birtwell
Barbara Beam
Lancaster County Extension
Assis
Lancaster
Calif
Ross McCormick
Living End Susan Kreifel Bill Mitchell’s GF patent legacy
Bill Mitchell of Lincoln Park New Jersey holds over 60 patents with General Foods including substitutes for tapioca and a pectin extraction process that earned GF over 10 million. His quick-set Jell O method remains popular and his Pop Rocks Moon Dust candies sparked production growth. Mitchell, 66, was honored with the NWU Achievement Award and continues consulting for GF while exploring new ideas like carbonated ice.
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Bill Mitchell
General Foods
Mitchell
Lincoln Park
N.J
University of Nebraska
Nebraska Wesleyan University
Lincoln
NWU
Kodak Co
Rochester
N.Y
Kodak
Women advised on escaping abusive marriages with civil actions
A reader asks how a 120 pound woman can remove an abusive 190 pound husband. The author notes civil actions can aid, citing North Carolina concepts like constructive abandonment, divorce from bed and board, and alimony without divorce, with quick hearings and temporary support funded by the losing party.
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Ann Landers
North Carolina
Wrong Green misidentification in Handspinner's Guild report
A Lincoln Journal correction clarifies that Mrs B L Green and Mrs Wayne Green at misnumbered addresses were confused in a Handspinner's Guild fall dye in feature. The note points out a civil action to protect women and prompts reader awareness.
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Lincoln Journal
Napoleons and other reader recipe requests from Kitchen Barter
Readers seek a Napoleons pastry with flaky layers and white glaze and a phyllo based variation. They also request casseroles with ground beef potatoes and green vegetables, cake doughnuts and Salisbury steak recipes, pickled peppers stuffed with cabbage, papaya and guava dishes, a apple sugar caramel dessert, olive oil pickles, and beer cheese soup variants. The column invites mailed in signed submissions from Lincoln readers.
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Lincoln Journal
Lincoln
Neb
Aura Lee Turek
Kresge’s
Dime Store
11Th and
6 Sts
Velma Schaaf
G. H. Roeder
Esther R. Scott
H. Schroeder
Esther Prichard
Eunice Stout
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the Living End
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Wood
Joyce Pauley
B. Schimmel
Jane Doe
Sandra Retzlaff
E. Scott
Gourmet Magazine
Leamington Hotel
Minneapolis
Vanida Wilson
Charles D. Casper
Civic Center
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