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Iconic Bakery: No Christmas cookie plate is complete without these

Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, December 8, 2015

For Icon viewers getting ready to bake for the holidays, you can't have a cookie plate without meringue kisses.

There's probably more recipes for this cookie than any other in Ohio. Here's one we picked from the Ada Sesquicentennial Cookbook, from 2002. This recipe is provided by Ruth Brown.

Ruth Brown's Meringue Kisses

4 egg whites
1 1/2 cup sugar
1/8 teaspoon salt
Vanilla
Nuts

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Observations, insights and sightings: Technology

Posted by Fred Steiner on Wednesday, November 18, 2015

By Monty Siekerman
Sometimes, this modern age (I'm talking technology here) gets the carriage before the horse.

First off, I want to thank the three ladies at Rite Aid in Ada for patiently helping me for 45 minutes try to print pictures of my recently deceased dog, Caesar.

We tried. We failed.

Remember not too many moons ago when you could buy roll of 400 ASA film, shoot 24 or so pictures, return to the store, drop off the film and, if you are lucky, get your prints back within 24 hours?

Not anymore.

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Iconoclast Bakery: The Legendary Icon Refrigerator-Cupboard Pie

Posted by Fred Steiner on Sunday, November 15, 2015

Introducing the legendary Icon Refrigerator-Cupboard Pie.

Here’s the approach: Open the refrigerator door (and the kitchen cupboard) and see what you’d like to get rid of.

But, instead tossing things out, you bake it. In a pie.

Wanting to bake a pie, but not knowing which one to tackle, I tried the above approach and it worked.

My wife gave me some Probst Family Farm Maple Syrup for my birthday last week. So, in the back of my mind, maple syrup would play a significant role in the bake.

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Iconic Bakery: Baked Crumbed Potatoes

Posted by Fred Steiner on Sunday, November 8, 2015

Baked Crumbed Potatoes
By Coletta Mullenhour from the “Bluffton Community Cookbook II”

6 medium potatoes, peeled and halved
½ c. Margarine, melted
1 c. fine dried bread crumbs
Salt and pepper

Wash and dry the potatoes. Dip in margarine, then crumbs, coating well. Repeat. Put on a shallow baking dish.

Add salt and pepper. Add any remaining margarine and crumbs on top. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes. Turn over and bake 20-30 minutes more until golden brown.

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Iconic Bakery: It's apple crisp season

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, October 26, 2015

Here’s an easy and quick recipe from the Ada sesquicentennial cookbook from 2002. It’s just in time for all those apples you don’t know what to do with.

Apple Crisp
Recipe from Marie Snyder

5-6 apples, peeled, cored and coarsely chopped
1 cup sugar
1 cup minute oats
1/3 cup flower
2 tsp. cinnamon
1 stick butter

Chop apples and place in deep pie pan. Mix dry ingredients and pour over apples. Cut up butter and dot over apples.

Bake at 375 degrees for 30 minutes or until bubbly.

Serve with or without milk or half and half.

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Observations, insights and sightings: Speaking their peace

Posted by Fred Steiner on Friday, October 23, 2015

By Monty Siekerman
Demonstrations in Ada are few and far between, as I have observed of the local scene during the past 50 years. So, when I saw a group of people in white coats standing outside the library, I took note, and in true reporter form, began asking questions.

About 45 pharmacy students and a couple of profs were at the library to meet with a staff member from Congressman Bob Latta's office to talk about making pharmacists "providers," as is proposed in a House bill.

The delegation from ONU came prepared...dressed in pharmacy outfits, bullhorn in hand, signs saying what they wanted.

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