—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 19, 1971 22 It's Almost (Continued irom Page 17) pollinate the blossoms Haases hire 250 hives of honeybees every spring If you get a lot of rain during blossom time, this prevents the bees fiom working so pollination is poor and not many cherries form Excessive rams during the time the cher ries are ripe causes them to split and to rot All signs point to a bumper crop this year, but ram and storms could still change this picture. There are 200 acres in their combined New Danville Pike farm and their Long Lane farm with 150 acres of orchards Be sides the 100 acres in cherries, they have pears, apples and peaches. They have 20 acres of pears of several varieties and produce more pears than any other orchard in Lancaster Coun ty. They have five acres of peaches. They maintain a good produc- ing orchard by replanting trees J o y Haas holds the cover for her cookbook “Fruit Re acra J new J Trees eP They ci P es From Friends of Cherr y mi Orchards” and is planted 1,000 trees this spring, of fc yP in g 311(1 assembling the pages for the printer. Jirhlch 900 were peach trees Last an agricultural research techni- was 12 years old and does some iall, they planted cherry and cian f or a chemical company He solo work. She also plays the pear trees. They took a census ■wanted to be on a farm so much piano. of orchard trees last year and that he took a5O per cent cut in She and her husband are there were 12,000 tiees. It takes wa ges to work at an orchard. members of Calvary Independent three or four years from the time jie worked at orchards and Church m Lancaster. Almost all of planting for peach trees to j- be y ] lve( j near Gettysburg, near of their extra curricular activi produce and five years or moie Allentown and near Lancaster, ties are with the church, for cherries. but they hke lt here better than Mr Haas ig on the Board of They also grow some sweet anywhere Mrs Haas says, “We Calvary Fellowship Homes, a re corn, tomatoes, pumpkins for love it here When we came to tirement home, and serves as pies and for jack-o’-lanterns and Lancaster County we liked the Treasurer of the hoard ftp cub a few red raspberries. people, the country and liked stitutes as a Sunday School Haases have a stand at Central this orchard” They have lived teacher and Southern Markets in Lan- here nme seasons By the third Mrs ' Haas teaches hth caster where they sell all of their year he started here as foreman. de m the Sund School ° and fruits m season candy apples. He was manager five years be- flfth de in the summer Blble cider apple butter, sweet corn, fore they bought the farms. School In wmter she teaches a (tomatoes and pumpkins. By Mr Haas ls a mem ber of the Good News Club in New Dan putting apples in cold storage, Pennsylvania State Horticul- y iii e . There are from 10 to 20 they can supply apples all year tural Association and serves on children from 4 to 12 years of At the markets the price of their their i e o ls i a tive committee He age in it. She says, “One reason cherries is somewhat cheaper 1S a mem ber of the-Pennsylvania W e have nothing but fruit on than at supermarkets and they A pple Advisory Council, having o ur farm is so we don’t have to are better than cherries shipped been a ppointed by Gov Shafer, work on Sunday.” in because they are treeinpened He serves as chairman of their M R u[ , t a A few pickers are hired to pick le g ls i atl ve comittee It meets Hen” S. L 1:°!, cherries for these markets They tbree times a vear S le , used *° bave a ve ° e ‘ do not sell cherries wholesale. „ . table garden, but now just has Their roadside stand opens for . Hals a of the Lancas- flowers. She has planted spring the peach season and closes tfer < 7° unty J rmt Growers As- flowering bulbs and perrenials around November or later. One socla ‘ lon and served as their a nd also has many annuals such variety of peaches follows an- President two years Heisalso as coleuses, geraniums, petunias other variety all season. It is a member of th f Pennsylvania and her husband’s favorite, man open every day except Sunday. Farmers Association. golds. He has planted shrub- They sell fresh fruit, homemade if he had a hobby, his interest, bery and they enjoy the old fash jellies apple cider and their own often orchard and church, would ioned blooming shrubs Cherry Hill Brand homemade he in economics and politics He Mrs. Haas can knit, crochet, ■apple butter which is made by a a^ 3o likes antiques, old houses embroider and sew. She made neighbor. It is most delicious and furniture. curtains for her house and some Mr. Haas is very particular in Joy is a registered nurse, hav- of her clothes and is going to making his apple cider He mg trained at Philadelphia Gen- make shorts for their boys. She uses certain amounts of differ- eral Hospital She worked six too likes antiques. They have ent varieties of apples which are months as a nurse in Philadel- several Currie* and Ives pictures washed and no rotten ones Mrs phia and three years at the Lan- and are acquiring several pieces Haas may be prejudiced, but she caster General Hospital. She re- of furniture, says they have the best cider in tired when their children came She is just completing a recipe Lancaster County along Richard say, “The kids hook entitled “Fruit Recipes Mr Haas’s aim is to produce are our number one crop.” From the Friends of Cherry Hill absolutely the best grade of Haases have two sons. Tommy Orchards” which has about 50 fruit, not necessarily the most is 4% yeargs old. He was in pages. Besides her own favorite He also tries to make it as nursery school this past year recipes, it will have favorite easy as possible to pick the fruit, two days a week and will be recipes of her friends and neigh- He just bought a new pruner three dajs this year Matthew hors All of the recipes contain which trim the tops and sides is two > ears old fruits which they grow Included of the trees so as to make the Mrs Haas has aBS degree will be recipes which use ap trees within easy leach for pick- from the Philadelphia College of pies, cider, apple sauce, peaches, ing. Many of the cherries can Bible and was in their choir, pears, cherries and pumpkins be picked from the ground She says, “I love to sing.” She This cookbook will be sold at Richard and Mrs Haas (Joy) has sung in a choir since she their sales stand were both born and raised in Philadelphia, but his uncle was a fruit grower and as a boy he went up to his orchards, “Over- look Orchards”, to help him So ever since he was seven years old, he wanted to have an orchard. He received a degree an horticulture from Delaware Valley College in Doylestown Joy was introduced to the farm for the first time when he took her to the Pennsylvania Farm Show at Ha&risburg. ;They, 'lived - in®'Philadelphia When first-anamed- and he was Cherry Picking Time at Garber Oil Co. TEXACO HEATING OIL Burner Sales & Service MOUNT JOY, PA. Pfa. 653-1821 the Haases' Fruit Farm Mrs Haas says, “I love to cook I love to try new recipes. I can and freeze everything we grow but my favorite thing is to make jelly I never did any of that in the city. I freeze dif ferent varieties of peaches, strawberries, cherries, fresh tomato juice and apple sauce ” Speaking of cherries, she says, “I like to freeze the dark ones and can the light ooes I make thousands of candy apples in winter ” Mrs. Haas helps at the sales stand, runs errands and pitches in wherever she can She also used to giaue apples before the children were born She is a leal partner in the business, as you can see. Mrs Haas says, “Cherries are good for salads, pies, to eat fresh, frozen hors d’ ceuvres ir to float on punch.” Here are some of her fav&rite. recipes for cherries. SWEET CHERRY PIE FILLING (Mix together and let stand while making crust). RISSER POULTRY BEFORE SELLING - LET US QUOTE RISSER POULTRY 347 N. Broad St., Lititz 4 cups pittecl sweet cherries. crushed slightly 1 cup sugar Vs cup flour 1 teaspoon lemon juice Dash of salt Make crust for 9 inch, pie. Line pan. Fill .with filling. Dot with 2 tablespoons butter. Top with lattice crust or crumb topping Bake in a 450 degree preheated oven for 10 minutes. Reduce temperature to 350 de grees and bake about 45 minu tes. FRESH FRUIT CHEESE ' TORTE Crust: 2Vz cups flour 1 cup butter or margarine Cream together and press ’ evenly in 9 x 13 inch pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 20 minutes. Cool. Creamy Cheese Layer: 1 8 oz. pkg. cream cheese 1 can condensed milk Vs cup lemon juice , 1 teaspoon vanilla Combine. This mixture will' (Continued on Page 23^> Ph. 717-626-2153 i > 3 4 ~ K s
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