Thanks to the hot, dry summer, our crops have come in quickly this year. We are in the midst of harvest, complete with trying to come up with a variety of transportable meals that are easy to eat on the combine or in the field. One of our readers sent in this recipe for a “good meal dish” for taking to the field.
Rarebit beef pie
1 pound hamburger 500 g
1 egg, slightly beaten
1/4 teaspoon poultry 1 mL
seasoning
1 teaspoon salt 5 mL
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chopped onion, to taste
1/4 teaspoon pepper 1 mL
Combine above ingredients and press into bottom and sides of a nine inch square (22 cm square) pan. Bake for 10-15 minutes at 350 F (180 C) and pour off excess grease.
Mix together:
11/2 cups drained 375 mL
canned tomatoes, chopped
1/2 cup shredded 125 mL
cheddar cheese
5 tablespoons bread 75 mL
crumbs
1/4 teaspoon garlic 1 mL
powder
3 cups cooked 750 mL
potatoes, grated
salt and pepper, to taste
Chop tomatoes, add cheese, crumbs and spices. Stir and pour over meat base. Bake again for 10-15 minutes at 350 F (180 C) and pour off grease. Top with potatoes, drizzle with a little margarine and sprinkle with paprika. Continue to bake at 400 F (200 C.) for 10-15 minutes, or until lightly browned. Serve with a salad and buns. Serves six. – J.M., Dodsland, Sask.
Seeking pie recipe
Dear TEAM: I have been trying to get a recipe for a pie using cottage cheese as a filling. I’m sure I saw the recipe in the Western Producer a few years ago. Common sense tells me that it must have had eggs, sugar, salt and lemon juice added to the cheese. My mother made the pie probably 55 years ago. I would like to make it for my brother (who also remembers it) for his birthday. – A. M., Biggar, Sask.
Dear A.M.: I remember a delicious cottage cheese dessert recipe that we got from my high school French teacher, Mrs. Nouch, more than 35 years ago. It can be made in a dessert pan or pie plates. It can also be made with graham wafer crust or pie crust.
Mrs. Nouch’s cheesecake
3 cups cottage cheese, 750 mL
well drained (24 ounces)
2 tablespoons lemon 30 mL
juice
1/4 cup milk 50 mL
2 packages plain gelatin 30 mL
1 cup sugar, white 250 mL
granulated
2 eggs, separated
2 cups whipped cream 500 mL
or 2 packages Dream Whip
Put cottage cheese through a potato ricer or sieve. Add lemon juice, and set aside after mixing well.
Put the milk in the top of a double boiler. Add the gelatin and let stand until it looks solid. Add the sugar and two egg yolks. This will appear heavy and thick, but when you place it over the boiling water, it will soften. Cook about three minutes until the gelatin becomes stringy. Add to cottage cheese and lemon juice mixture, and mix well. I put it back into the double boiler top to get all the gelatin from the sides. Set aside until half gelled, like thick, heavy cream.
Whip egg whites until they stand in peaks. Fold into the gelatin mixture. Whip half of the whipping cream and fold into the cheese mixture.
Pour into a large pie crust or make the wafer crust below. Add other half of whipped cream for topping.
Wafer crust
30 graham wafers
3 tablespoons sugar 45 mL
6 tablespoons butter, 90 mL
melted
Crush graham wafers and mix in sugar and melted butter. Put two-thirds of the crumbs in the bottom of the pan to form a crust, then pour in the filling. Top with the remainder of the crumbs. Cool in the refrigerator.
Baked cottage cheese pie
I called A.M. to discuss this recipe. She remembers her mother’s recipe as a baked pie. On the internet I found this baked cottage cheese pie.
Cottage cheese pie
1 unbaked pie shell
3 eggs
1/2 cup sugar 125 mL
1 teaspoon grated 5 mL
lemon rind
1/8 teaspoon salt 0.5 mL
1/2 cup light cream 125 mL
2 cups cottage 500 mL
cheese, mashed with fork
2 tablespoons flour 30 mL
1 tablespoon lemon 15 mL
juice
2 tablespoons sugar 30 mL
1/2 teaspoon ground 2 mL
cinnamon
Beat eggs slightly, add sugar gradually and beat well. Pour in rest of ingredients except the final two and mix thoroughly. Pour into an unbaked pie crust. Combine sugar and cinnamon and pour over the pie mixture. Bake 40 minutes in 350 F (180 C) oven.
Source: The Southern Cook Book, edited by Marion Brown.
My mother made it
Dear Team: I’m looking for a banana nut cake recipe that was printed on the Swans Down flour box. My mom made this cake years ago and has lost her recipe. I remember it said to put waxed paper in pan. Could that be right? It was the best cake ever. Thanks. – P.H. Marion, Kansas
Banana nut bread
1/2 cup butter or 125 mL
margarine
2 cups sugar 500 mL
2 eggs
3 mashed bananas
11/2 cups sour milk 375 mL
(3 tbsp.(45 mL) vinegar
added to milk)
11/2 tsp. baking soda 7 mL
3 cups flour 750 mL
pinch of salt
1 cup nuts 250 mL
Cream sugar and margarine at high speed. Add eggs and beat. Add bananas and beat. Add sour milk slowly. Add dry ingredients and nuts. Put in greased loaf pans. Bake at 350 F (180 C.) for one hour. Makes two loaves.
Birth order and personality
At harvest time relationships can be taxed to the limit when families work together to get the job done. Sometimes parents, brothers, sisters, or adult children come home to help and can revert back to old roles. It has been said that birth order affects a person’s personality and their relationships with their siblings. What do you think? I went searching for some answers, and this is what I found.
The oldest is probably:
Most likely to succeed, reliable, conservative, self-critical, a perfectionist, able to enjoy the company of older people, the link between parents and siblings, seldom allowed to be a kid – (parents tend to push the oldest and expect the most from them), often dethroned by younger siblings and convinced siblings will outshine them.
The middle child is probably:
A compromiser and negotiator, the silent rebel against the family’s values, the one with the most friends, an effective team player, reticent, but dreams of being catapulted to greatness. Tends to be part of the woodwork unless given a position of command, well aware of being upstaged by older or younger siblings, often eager to carve out a unique spot in the family, whether positive or negative.
The youngest child is probably:
Compelled to make a contribution to the world, a show-off who enjoys the limelight, both a charmer and a rebel – endearing one minute, hard to deal with the next, often the family clown, creative, often stuck doubting the validity of their perceptions because they were often laughed at or not taken seriously.
The parents’ job
How does a parent deal with these notions? Do you let the designated orders rule your family or try to fight the forces of birth order? Should you try not to put so much responsibility on the oldest child? Should you go overboard to give the middle child prestige? Should you do your best not to spoil the baby rotten?
Sure you should try. But keep in mind that children respond to life from their own unique positions. Do all you can to minimize sibling rivalry and always try to act in the best interests of each child. And then trust that each will develop into an individual in whom the effects of birth order will only be positive. Source: www.family.msn.com.
Barbara Sanderson is a home economist from Rosetown, Sask., and one of four columnists comprising Team Resources. Send correspondence in care of this newspaper, Box 2500, Saskatoon, Sask., S7K 2C4 or contact them at team@producer.com.
