The following recipe was published by the West Schuylkill Herald on February 5, 1964.

The family operated their locally beloved pizzeria on East Grand Avenue in Tower City, PA until 2025.

Cook of the Week

Italian Recipe Cook Of Week Feature This Week

In place of the hot dog and hamburger, favorites of the young people several years ago, the young people of today enjoy pizza, spaghetti and lasagna.

Naturally, we dug into an Italian background this week to come up with a recipe for lasagna.

Mrs. Richard Mione, favorite pizza pie baker in Tower City, also famous for her spaghetti sauce, shares with us her recipe for lasagna.

A busy housewife and mother, Mrs. Mione now has her own business for pizza and spaghetti sauce. Formerly, she assisted her husband in managing Mione’s Café.

The Miones are the parents of four children, Alfred, A3C in the US Air Force; Theresa, a postgraduate student and instructor in Spanish at Penn State University; Virginia and Mary Ann, students at Porter-Tower High School.

Lasagna (Italian Style)
Fry 1 to 1 ½ lbs. loose hamburger with onion, salt, and pepper until brown. To this add tomato sauce and 1 can tomato paste, parsley, and simmer 2 hours to make sauce—not too thick.

Prepare following ingredients:
1 lb. mozzarella cheese, cut in pieces; 1 lb. container of ricotta; 1 ½ lb. hamburger (fry until brown); parmesan grated cheese; 1 deep baking pan.

Cook 1 lb. lasagna dough in salt water until tender. Drain. Rinse with cold water and drain.

Spread bottom of pan with a small amount of sauce; line with dough; spread a little of each of the above ingredients over top. Spoon ingredients over the top. Spoon over this the hamburger sauce and sprinkle with parmesan cheese. Continue this until pan is almost full with the last layer of dough. Spread on sauce and sprinkle with parmesan cheese. Bake 1 hour at 350 degrees.

A favorite dessert of the Miones is Peanut Butter Apple Crumble. The recipe is as follows:

Peanut Butter Apple Crumble
½ cup flour
½ cup sugar
¼ tsp. salt
4 tbsp. peanut butter
½ tsp. cinnamon
3 tbsp. butter creamed with the sugar.
Add all ingredients together and make a crumb mixture.

Peel and slice 6 medium baking apples, sift crumb mixture through apples. Pour on a greased pan and bake 1 hour, or until apples are soft, at 350 or 375 degrees.

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Read more Italian history in the Coal Region

Italian immigrants protested discrimination and racial hatred in Schuylkill County | 1926

Relief efforts in Hazleton organized to help Italian refugees in 1944

Lackawanna County airman recounts bombing his native Sicily during World War 2 | July 1943

Lackawanna County airman killed in bombing raid featured in “Masters of the Air”

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