The Rural Voice, 1985-01, Page 31admits after they've spent a long day
cooking and then serving up the meal,
"sometimes there aren't so many
laughs by the end of the night."
GERMAN BUNS
4 cups all purpose flour
1 small tsp. salt
1 tsp. soda
1 cup white sugar
1/2 cup margarine
1/2 cup lard
Blend together.
1 egg (well -beaten)
1 tsp. cream of tartar
Sift dry ingredients. Cut margarine,
lard mixture into flour. Make a well
and pour in egg and cream of tartar.
Mix with milk and water (half cup of
each).
Filling:
1 egg
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup flour
Roll out your buns and spread on the
filling. Sprinkle with raisins and cin-
namon. Roll up like a jelly roll and
cut off buns in slices. Bake at 400°F.
Helen Shute
PECAN PIE
1 cup pecan halves
3 eggs
2/3 cup sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
pinch of salt
1 cup corn syrup
1/3 cup melted butter
Spread the pecans in a 9" unbaked
pastry shell. Then combine eggs,
sugar, salt corn syrup, vanilla and
melted butter in a bowl and mix well.
Pour over the pecans. Bake on lower
oven rack at 425°F. for 10 minutes,
then at 350°F. for 30 minutes or just
until set. Cool.
Vera Fletcher
Another popular Kountry Kat-
erers' dessert is Marilyn Robinson's
Chocolate Wonder.
CHOCOLATE WONDER
Layer #1:
1 cup margarine
2 cups flour
Blend together and spread in a 9" by
13" pan. Bake at 350°F for 25
minutes until golden brown and then
cool.
Layer #2:
8 oz. Philadelphia Cream Cheese
1 cup icing sugar
1 cup Cool Whip
Whip together and spread on crust.
Layer #3:
2 packages instant chocolate pudding
3 cups milk
Whip until thick and spread on se-
cond layer. Cover with Cool Whip.
Marilyn Robinson
When it comes to keeping her own
family's cookie jar full, Joyce Bickell
relies on this recipe.
BOILED RAISIN COOKIES
Boil 2 cups of raisins in 1 cup of water
for five minutes. Then cream
together:
1 cup shortening or lard
2 cups sugar
3 eggs
Add cooled raisin mixture and 1 tsp.
vanilla.
Then add:
4 cups flour
11/2 tsp. cinnamon
'/, tsp. nutmeg
1/4 tsp. allspice
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. salt
Drop on greased pans and bake
350°F.
at
SOUR CREAM COFFEE CAKE
'/e cup butter
1 cup white sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla
1 cup sour cream
Cream these ingredients together and
then add:
2 cups all purpose flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. soda
Put one half of the batter in a small
angel food tin. Then add one half of
the mixture that follows:
3/4 cup brown sugar
2 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 cup chopped pecans
Follow with remaining batter, top
with rest of sugar mixture on top.
Bake at 375°F for 30 minutes.
Vera Fletcher
Have a happy, nutritious and
hopefully, bountiful New Year and
best wishes to all! ❑
Steps
Feeders
Railings
Curbing
Slabs
4 /, 2' ' 44 Yr" 21/2
HOG SLATS
Also farrowing and weaner slats
with narrower openings
Men acetnd by
ED's Concrete Products
Corner of Lorne and Humber Sts.
Stratford
Res. 423-6058 Bus. 271-6590
So you it the Pork Congress
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