Pat Arata from Mishawaka, Ind., was looking for a recipe for making crispy fried salmon patties that she thought was once printed on a can of Crisco.

Evelyn Bledsoe from Letart, W.Va., sent in a photocopy of the well-used recipe taken from a Crisco can many years ago that she thinks is the one Arata was searching for.

These cakes cook up crispy and light. I would recommend using canned red salmon instead of the pink if you are able to spend a little more. It has a less fishy flavor and usually fewer of the tiny bones. I also think the cakes could be fried in a little canola oil, instead of the Crisco.

Requests

Mary Geis from Baltimore is looking for a dessert recipe that her mother made some 45 years ago. The bottom layer was about one inch of some sort of flour/butter mixture. Over the top, she placed fresh plum halves, skin side up and baked. She recalls that it was not sweet but rather tart tasting.

Bettie Vogt from Bend would like to have a recipe for making Ezikiel bread, using beans and seeds instead of flour.

Recipe Finder

Looking for a hard-to-find recipe or can answer a request? Write to Julie Rothman, Recipe Finder, The Baltimore Sun, 501 N. Calvert St., Baltimore, MD 21278, or email baltsunrecipefinder@gmail.com. Names must accompany recipes for them to be published.