88-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 30, 2003 Vz teaspoon salt trast to ‘plain’ Germans ofo the 1 tablespoon baking powder Anabaptist traditions, who are more prevalent 1 teaspoon vanilla in the south central part of Pennsylvania. Al- Mix alternately: though these two groups share much of the 2 cups flour same culture and foods, recipes are different, 1 cup milk and shoofly is no exception. My almost Pour in 9x13-inch cake pan. Spread 3Vz cups 97-year-old aunt (of very clear mind) sent me a frozen or fresh fruit on top. Bake at 350 de- newspaper article about shoofly pie, heavily grees for 30-35 minutes. quoting food historian William Woys Weaver, Glaze: author of “Pennsylvania Dutch Country Cook- 1Vs cup confectioners’ sugar ing.” Weaver states, ‘lt is not shoofly pie unless 2 tablespoons cream or milk it is made with molasses.’ Unfortunately in melted southcentral Pennsylvania, most people call If you are looking for a recipe but can't find it, send Butter, 1 teaspoon vanilla corn syrup molasses, so the shoofly pie is total- your recipe request to Lou Ann Good, Cook’s Question My Corner, 609, Melt butter in pan, add cream and sugar. Stir ly different from what I have always eaten. in of Lancaster Farming, P.O. Box care aunt told many years ago the crumbs for 17522. need send a self-ad- well. Take off heat and add vanilla. Spread on me Ephrata, PA There's no to the pies were always white. The recipe I have is receive to cake while cake is still warm. dressed stamped envelope. If we an answer in my great grandmother’s handwriting, which possible. your question, we will publish it as soon as ANSWER Rosanna Witmer, Millerstown, calls the pie Molasses Pie.“ recipe the right Crumb Check your to make sure you copy sent in this recipe for B&G sandwich topppers Elisabeth suspects the Shartlesville Inn is amounts and complete instructions for making the reci- to use on sandwiches, pizza, and nachos. more closely related to the shoofly pies of pe. Sometimes we receive numerous answers to the Pickled Sweet Peppers northeastern Pennsylvania than those in the same request, but cannot print each one. Fill pint or jelly jars with diced sweet pep- south central area. Answers to recipe requests should be sent to the same pers. Boil together for syrup: She writes that Weaver was able to trace address. Y ou may also e-mail questions and answers to 1 cup water molasses crumbs pies (a.k.a. shoofly pies) back LG(X)I)[email protected] 1 cup vinegar to the centennial celebration in , 1 cup sugar where it is appropriately called Centennial Pie. A reader would like recipes for QUESTION Make enough syrup to fill jars. Hot water It became shoofly pie only after reaching the morning especially with apples in muffins, one bath for 10 minutes after water is boiling. Pennsylvania region. it. She would also like muffin recipes with car- German Elisabeth doesn’t know why syrup was rot, mandarin orange, and other ANSWER Lee Laverty, Mount Joy, sent in corn zucchini, renamed in the recipe. Her flavors. this recipe in request for using cheese. molasses Mennonite My Own Baked Ziti mother-in-law gave her a copy of the “Mennon- QUESTION James Breon wants a recipe to 1 pound box ziti ite Community Cookbook,” when Elisabeth mar- make a Reuben sandwich. Boil 6-quarts salted water until just tender. ried her son 37 years ago. She uses it frequent- ly, but realized something was horribly wrong QUESTION Melanie Martin wants yogurt Drain, rinse, and set aside. a when recipes for Montgomery recipe that uses Clear Jel or unflavored gelatin. 1 pound Italian sausage links Pie, Lemon 2 jars Marinara sauce Cake-Pie, Vanilla Pie, and Walnut Custard Pie QUESTION Velma Boughter wants a recipe 15-ounces ricotta cheese (do not use cottage named molasses in the ingredients. Elisabeth for little hot cherry peppers stuffed with sauer- cheese) writes, “Yuk!” But, those from a different region kraut for pickling peppers in a brine and jarred. 1 pound shredded mozzarella cheese will probably react differently. QUESTION Shirley Schwoerer, Wysox, Vs cup grated romano cheese Shoo Fly Pie wants a recipe for unstuffed cabbage leaves. Fry sausage until cooked. When cooled, slice 2 8-inch unbaked pie shells into bite-sized pieces. Place into pasta along Crumbs: A reader wants complete in- QUESTION with one jar of sauce. Toss until evenly mixed. 2 cups flour structions and recipe to make cheese. sifted In a bowl, mix ricotta and shredded mozza- 1 cup granulated sugar QUESTION Luci Essig, Bernville, wants a rella. Toss into sausage/ziti mixture. Add 2 1 teaspoon baking soda brownie cupcake recipe. cups sauce. Mix until blended. Place in a large Stir together crumb ingredients. Cut in Vi baking dish. Pour the remaining suace over the cup shortening. Set aside. QUESTION - Debbie Mullinix, Woodbine, top and sprinkle with romano cheese. Cover Filling: wants a recipe for peach pound cake using Md., with foil bake in 350-degree for 30-45 1 cup (Br’er Rabbit Grandma’s fresh peaches. and oven molasses or minutes. Insert knife into center to check that are good varieties) QUESTION A Quarryville reader wants a it is heated through. Remove from oven and let 1 egg recipe for cream cheese icing that can be used set 10 minutes before serving. 1 teaspoon cinnamon to decorate cakes. 1 cup boiling water ANSWER V. New wanted a Martin, Holland, 1 teaspoon baking soda Margaret Grieff, Sidman, wants recipe for coffee called A-P which is QUESTION cake cake, Stir together. For a shoofly pie with a wet a recipe for Kosher dills similiar to those sold in sold at Yoder’s Store, New Holland. Thanks to bottom, divide liquid into each pie shell. Sprin- refrigerated supermarket cases and marketed Faye Gray, who sent this recipe she found in a kle with crumbs. under the label Claussen Dill Pickles. 1936 cookbook she inherited from her mother. For shoofly pie with “moist put Dutch Apies Cake a a zone,” QUESTION Margaret Grieff, Sidman, wants about half the crumbs in the bottom of each pie 3 tablespoons shortening a recipe for fillings and dough to make “Hot shell. Pour filling on top of crumbs, and top fill- Pockets.” 1 cup sugar ing with remaining 1 cups flour crumbs. Vz a QUESTION Margaret wants teaspoon For more cake-like pie, mix crumbs and fill- Grieff, Sidman, 1 baking soda ing, and pour into pie shells. to know if Cool Whip may be interchanged with 1 /4 cup milk sour Bake at 375 degrees for 40-45 minutes. whipped cream in recipes. Combine sugar and flour. Cut into shorten- ing. Dissolve the soda in the sour milk and add QUESTION G. Minckler, Wayne, wants rec- 3 ipes using rice flour. to first mixture. Roll dough about /4-inch on floured board and cut with cookie cutter or in Apple Appeal QUESTION Recipes needed to use end-of- squares. Bake in 400-degree oven 10 minutes. summer produce such as tomatoes, corn, Sprinkle with sugar. beans, and other vegetables. (Continued from Page B6) Thanks to Faye for also sending these reci- QUESTION Peaches and pears are so pes, which she writes, is from The Willows Res- Bake at 375 degrees for 18-22 minutes or until golden scrumptious in season, but how can I preserve taurant, Lancaster. It’s always interesting to brown. Remove to wire racks to cool. Serve with ice cream them best to use later on, a reader inquires. see how many different recipes exist for the if desired. Makes 2 dozen. Can they be frozen and used in dessert reci- same item. Bethany Smucker pes? If so, how? AP’S Christmas Cookies Narvon pound butter QUESTION Anyone have a recipe for blue- 1 APPLE CRUNCH 1 pound sugar berry whoopie pies? Through some glitch in the Place 4 cups pared sliced apple in a one-quart casserole. 4 eggs system this earlier request was dropped with- Combine % cup orange juice, non-caloric liquid teaspoon baking soda (scant) sweetener out a recipe being printed. Jeremie and others 1 to cup sugar, Flour to stiffen equal Vi I teaspoon ground cinnamon, and 1 have requested one. juice. Make four small rolls dough. Place in re- teaspoon lemon Pour over apples and toss. of Combine 1 cup graham cracker crumbs with 2 table- QUESTION Brenda Martin, Reinholds, frigerator until very cold. Roll out and cut cook- wants a recipe to make soy sauce. ies with your favorite mold. Bake about seven spoons melted butter. Sprinkle over apples cover with foil minutes at 400 degrees. and bake at 400 degrees for 25 minutes. Uncover and QUESTION Joyce Shoemaker, Mount Joy, bake 5 to 10 minutes longer. Makes 6 servings. wants a recipe for corn fries that taste like Dutch Apies Cake Betty Biehl those served at Oregon Dairy Restaurant. She 3 tablespoons shortening Mertztown writes that the corn fries look like French fries. 1 cup granulated sugar SUMMERTIME QUESTION A reader wants recipes for 1Vz cups flour 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 3-ounce package lemon-flavored gelatin dishes that work well to take to potluck dinners VA cup boiling water or covered dish events. 'A cup sour milk Combine ingredients. Cut with cookie cutter. 1 to 2 cans apple pie Ailing or 2 cups fresh apple QUESTION A reader wants recipes and Bake 10 minutes at 400 degrees. Sprinkle with Vi teaspoon cinnamon ideas for quick summertime cooking. sugar. Vi teaspoon grated lemon peel 9-inch graham cracker crust ANSWER A reader wanted 1 crumb Coatesville a ANSWER Helen Spencer, Hopewell, N.J., 1 tablespoon sugar recipe for blueberry bars like the Amish sold at lost her shoofly recipe from the Shartlesville /i cup shredded sharp American cheese Steel City Farmers Market, Coatesville. The which published earlier. Margaret Inn, we Also, '/: cup whipping cream, whipped bars were very moist and had an icing glaze Grieff, Sidman, wanted the to know best type of Dissolve gelatin in boiling water; chill until partialy set. over the top. Thanks to M. Stoltzfus, Lancaster, molasses to use in cookies and shoo fly pies. Combine pie filling or fresh apple, cinnamon, and who sent this recipe, which she formerly made Thanks to Elisabeth Chambersburg, for Keener, lemon peel. Reserve 'A cup of the gelatin and stir remain- for Coatesville Steel City Market. sending following recipe: the information and a der into apple pour into Royal Fruit Cake Elisabeth writes: “My father’s family was from mixture; crust. Cream together: Watsontown, Northumberland County. Her For “Meringue” fold reserved gelatin, sugar, and 1 cup sugar mother’s family was from White Haven, Luzerne shredded cheese into whipped cream. Spread over pie. Vs cup butter, soften, not melted County. Both these counties are more of the Chill until firm. 1 egg ‘fancy’ Pennsylvania German background (those Betty Biehl Add: of Lutheran and Reformed churches) in con- Mertztown