Vol. 2 No.10
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October 13, 2010
Treats for an Autumn Day from our Local Kitchens...
Pizza Sauce
Pumpkin Bread
Snitz for Pie
4 gallons tomato juice 4 onions, cut up 4 tablespoons basil 4 bay leaves 4 (8-ounce) cans tomato paste 2 (8-ounce) jars Parmesan cheese 4 peppers, cut up* 7 tablespoons salt 8 teaspoons oregano 8 tablespoons sugar 1 cup butter 2 to 3 cups clear jel Combine ingredients and boil together for an hour. ** Put in jars and seal. Cold pack 20 minutes. Yields 18 quarts. * Some of these can be hot peppers if you choose. **I add cheese just before putting into jars.
3 1/2 cups sifted flour 2 teaspoons baking soda 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1 teaspoon nutmeg 1 cup vegetable oil 4 eggs 2/3 cup water 2 cups pumpkin 3 cups sugar Sift dry ingredients, including sugar, into a bowl. Make a well and add remaining ingredients. Mix until smooth. Put into 3 loaf pans. Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour or until done. (If a toothpick comes out clean, it’s done.)
3/4 bushels apples* 12 cups white sugar** 4 tablespoons cinnamon 2 tablespoons allspice 2 teaspoons salt 5 heaping tablespoons flour Peel apples, put through grinder and let stand overnight, stirring a few times so they get nice and brown. Next morning, add sugar, spices and salt. Mix well. Pour flour warmed with a little water over apples and stir well. Put in jars and cold pack 1 hour. This tastes like snitz pie filling, but you don’t have the dried apples to soak, etc. *The apple mixture should fill a 13- quart bowl, so use apples accordingly. ** Sugar to your taste as this is way too much sugar for our taste.
Submitted by Katie Mae Schlabach
Cinnamon Candy Popcorn
1 cup butter 1/2 cup light Karo 1 cup sugar 1 teaspoon salt 1 cup cinnamon candies 1 teaspoon vanilla 1/2 teaspoon soda 12 quarts popped corn Boil butter, sugar, Karo, salt and cinnamon together for 5 minutes. Add vanilla and soda; stir well. Pour over popped corn and mix well.
Submitted by Rachel Miller
How To Cook Pumpkin
Submitted by Barbara Ann Detweiler Wash a pie pumpkin well and cut it in half. Scrape out seeds and stringy fibers. Cut halves into large portions. Peel if you wish before cooking, but if you cook the pumpkin with the shell on, the flesh will be a richer shade of orange and will also be easy to scoop out for mashing. To boil, add pieces to a pan containing one inch of boiling water. Simmer, covered, over low heat for 25 – 30 minutes. Scoop pumpkin from shell. (You may use this cooked pumpkin in your favorite recipe, or process it for canning or freezing. JF)
Submitted by Katie Mae Schlabach
Zucchini Casserole
Submitted by Sarah Miller 2 cups zucchini 1/2 stick butter 1 small onion chopped 1 cup Ritz crackers, crushed 1/2 cup milk 1 egg beaten 1 cup grated cheese 1+ cup pizza sauce 2 cups ground beef Salt and pepper to taste Mix all ingredients except beef, cheese and pizza sauce. Top with remaining ingredients. Bake at 350 degrees - 40 minutes.
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