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Vacation yields extra recipes

With husband and children on vacation, Lovina serves up extra recipes for readers.

We recently butchered our old laying hens and canned around 50 quarts of chicken broth. My husband, Joe, and our children are home on vacation the week of July 4. So this week I’m sharing some extra recipes.

God’s blessings to all!

A reader recently requested a recipe for red velvet cake made with beets. Here is the recipe:

Red Velvet Cake with Beets

3 cups flour

2 teaspoons baking powder

1 1/2 cup white sugar

1 cup buttermilk

1 cup pureed, cooked beets

1/2 cup vegetable oil

2 eggs

2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder

1 tablespoon red food coloring

1 teaspoon vanilla

1 teaspoon vinegar

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 teaspoon salt

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a 9-inch-by-13-inch baking pan with parchment paper. Sift flour and baking powder together. In another large bowl, whisk together sugar, buttermilk, beets, oil, eggs, cocoa powder, food coloring, vanilla, vinegar, baking soda and salt. Add flour mixture gradually to the bowl, stirring after each addition. Pour batter into prepared pan. Bake about 35 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.

A reader also requested the recipe for Cherry Delight.

Cherry Delight

1 3/4 cup graham cracker crumbs

1/4 cup melted butter

1/3 cup sugar

2 cups whipped topping

1 8-ounce package cream cheese

1/2 teaspoon vanilla

1 28-ounce can cherry pie filling

(or 1 quart canned cherry pie filling)

In a bowl, mix graham cracker crumbs, melted butter and 1 tablespoon sugar. Spread on bottom of a 9-inch-by-9-inch baking pan to form a crust. Beat together whipped topping and cream cheese, adding remaining sugar and vanilla until well blended. Smooth on top of crust. Top with cherry pie filling. Chill at least 3 hours.

Lovina Eicher is an Old Order Amish writer, cook, wife and mother of eight. She, her husband, Joe, and their family live in southeastern Michigan. She is the co-author of three cookbooks; her latest is “The Essential Amish Kitchen.” Contact Eicher at PO Box 1689, South Holland, IL 60473 (include a self-addressed stamped envelope for a reply) or at LovinasAmishKitchen@MennoMedia.org.

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