PIE: We mentioned Frances Haight’s recipe for Impossible Pie in Friday’s column, and she sent us the full recipe, along with her recipe for Sundae Short Pie. Enjoy!

Impossible Pie

4 eggs

1 cup sugar

1/4 tsp. salt

2 cups 

1 tsp. vanilla

1/4 cup margarine

1/2 cup flour

1/2 tsp. baking powder

1 cup flaked coconut

“You can omit the coconut and add whatever you want, such as prepared pumpkin. Blend in blender. Pour into buttered 10 inch pie plate. Bake one hour at 350 degrees.”

In case readers don’t remember from Friday, there is no crust in Frances’ pie. A crust made of filling will form when it bakes.

Sundae Short Pie

1 cup Bisquick

3 tbsp. boiling water

1/2 stick margarine

“Put all in pie pan. Stir with a fork. Pat up to the edges of pan. Bake 8-10 minutes at 350 degrees. Fill it with pudding or anything you want.”

PENNY CANDY: Carl Milks of Bradford had information to share after reading Tuesday’s column on local shops. It “jogged some memories for sure,” he wrote.

Carl tells us, “I grew up in Bolivar Run. As kids, we had two local stores to get our ‘penny candy’ — Holzwarth’s Store located on Bolivar Drive just below the Grange building, and in Kenmore Acres, Winkler’s Store, on corner of Downing Drive and Lambert Drive.

“Holzwarth’s had a single glass globed gas pump out front. Both had oodles of penny candy, the old Coca Cola slide open floor coolers that you slid the bottles out of a rack inside, and a variety of groceries. We used to travel along the main road pulling a wagon and collecting pop bottles from ditches on our way to the stores — cash them in and buy our candy and goodies.

“Reese and Mallo Cups were favorites and they were about twice the size of present day cups and only cost a nickel for a two pack. RC (Royal Crown) Cola was the fave pop.”

Also popular were popsicles and dreamsicles, he said. Holzwarth’s was run by Esther Holzwarth, while Norm and Ida Winkler ran Winkler’s, with “both sets of owners being great to us kids.”

“Ahhh, those were the days!!!,” he wrote.