—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 6,1971
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Mrs. Aaron Denlinger Is Active in Lancaster County Farm Women Society
By Mrs. Charles G. McSparran
Farm Feature Writer
Mrs. Aaron H (Mary)
Denlinger, Oak Hill Drive,
Paradise, is completing her two
year term as first vice president
of the Society of Farm Women of
Lancaster County She took part
in the annual meetings, as well as
county board meetings.
At the same time she has been
serving this office she served as
program chairman.
She is also finishing four years
as pin custodian for the Society of
Farm Women of Pennsylvania.
Any one of these is a job in it
self
As is the custom of ad
vancement in the county
organization, Mrs. Denlinger was
promoted from second vice
president to first vice president.
Today, at their annual meeting,
their new county president will be
selected Mrs Denlinger also
served as treasurer of the county
Farm Women
Mrs Denlinger has been an
active member of Farm Women
Society 7 since about 1940. She
served two year terms as
treasurer, vice president,
president and on various com
mittees of this Society
This Society was organized in
November, 1921 and Celebrated
its fiftieth anniversary last
month with a luncheon meeting
and fashion show entitled
“Walking Through The Past
Fifty Years of Farm Women No
7 With Fashions ” Members of
the Society modelled fashions
popular from 1921 to 1971, in
cluding many of the latest
fashions
Farm Women Society 7, with a
membership of 47, supports an
orphan child in India, gives
money gifts to workers at Christ
Home at Paradise, gives to
county Farm Women projects
and several charities. To finance
their projects they have food
stands at the flea market at
Paradise Memorial Park twice a
year, have bake sales, plant sales
and pass a goody basket from
member to member.
Mr and Mrs. Denlinger both
graduated from Paradise High
School Mr Denlinger also at
tended Lancaster Business
College.
They have lived m Paradise for
34 years- They built a beautiful
new home on the outskirts of
Paradise and moved into it the
past summer
Mary, the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs Milton Esbenshade, always
lived in the country. She worked
out in the fields, helped with
harvesting and milked by hand
on her father’s farm.
Denlingers have three
children. Aaron Jr graduated
from Paradise High School and
Penn State University. He is
married and lives in the Eden
area He has a son and two
daughters
John graduated from Pequea
Valley High School and Penn
State University. He is married
and has two daughters. They live
m Smoketown.
Both sons are in the lumber and
building material business at
Paradise with their father It is
known as “Denlinger In
corporated.” They sell all
kinds of building material and
prefabricate trusses and walls
for houses and churches which
are sold far'and near.
Aaron’s father, L. J. Denhnger,
bought this business when Aaron
was 18 years old but he only lived
seven months. Aaron and his
mother then became partners
and ran the business many years;
however, Mrs. Denhnger is not in
the business now.
Denlingers have a daughter
Nancy who graduated from
Pequea Valley High School and
attended Elizabethtwon College.
She is married to Richard Ferry
who is assistant manager of
Griffith and Bixler Furniture
Store in Knauers. They live in
Lincoln Park, a suburb of
Reading, and have two sons and a
daughter
Denhngers are members of
Calvary Independent Church,
Lancaster, where Mrs Denlinger
is serving on the Home Depart
ment of the Sunday School Her
duty is to take literature quar
terly to people confined to their
homes. She is a member and past
chairman of the Women’s
Missionary Prayer Group which
meets monthly. She was leader at
one time of one of their
missionary field groups.
Twice she was registrar for
their eight day missionary
conference when they en
tertained nearly 200
missionaries As such she had to
place them in homes of members
and friends. She also worked in
the pantry and acted as a dining
room hostess.
Eighteen months ago this
church was host to Independent
Fundamental Churches of
America Mrs. Denlinger was
registrar and had to find places
for visiting ministers to stay.
Mrs Denlinger is an active
member of the Auxiliary of
Lancaster School Of The Bible.
This auxiliary does things for the
student body They help with a
program and take food for a
covered dish meal.
Mrs Denlinger is a member of
Christian Women’s Club of
which meets once a
month. She served as vice
president, an advisor, financial
secretary and as publicity
chairman for a number of years.
She presently serves on a
telephone committee, calling
people to make reservations for
their luncheon meeting each
month
She has been active in the
Fresh Air Children’s program
which is sponsored by the New
York Herald Tribune. She is on
the Paradise Committee to find
vacation homes for these New
York children. Denlingers have
entertained these children about
18 years. They usually had one
each summer. One year they had
two. A Chinese girl came there 12
summers and another girl three
summers.
Mr Denlinger is also active in
various organizations, par
ticularly religious ones. He is
chairman of the’ Board of
Mrs. Aaron H. Denlinger, Paradise, proudly serves her
warm blueberry coffee cake.
Mrs. Denlinger holds a favorite antique, a light blue brocaded dress she made. In the
cut glass sugar bowl her Grandmother background are her coffee spoon collection
Esbenshade gave her filled with preserves and part of her china cup and saucer
when she was a small girl. She is wearing a collection.
Trustees of the Lancaster School
Of The Bible.
He is chairman of
Unevangelized Fields Mission
Council. He attends meetings
regularly at the United States
headquarters in Bala Cynwyd.
He has been very active in
Christian Business Men’s group
of Lancaster. He has served as
district chairman of Christian
Business Men’s Committee In
ternational for two three-year
terms and consequently has done
a lot of traveling.
Aaron taught the Adult Bible
Class of his Sunday School one
and a half years and served on
the church Official Board for four
years.
He is president of the Pequea
Valley School Authority Board
and goes out speaking for them.
Denlingers enjoy music. Both
Mr. and Mrs. Denlinger play the
piano and all the children played
instruments and were in the high
school band.
Mrs. Denlinger says, “We like
to travel and I’ve collected little
coffee spoons from all the
countries we visited.” She has 24
spoons. They visited pioneer
missionary work in South
America, visiting Brazil, Guiana
and the Carribean. They also
visited the Holy Land and most of
the states in the United States.
Mary says, “I enjoy sewing,
cooking, washing and ironing, but
not cleaning.” She makes a lot of
her own clothes and makes a lot
of drapes. She made the drapes
for their new home and really did
a professional job. She crochets.
Right now she is crocheting an
afghan. Another hobby is
collecting cups and saucers. She
also has some nice antique dishes
and pieces of furniture that came
down from, the Esbenshades and
Denlingers.
When she says, “I love to take
care of roses,” we can believe it
because she had about three
dozen roses at their other home in
Paradise.
They had a vegetable garden
until two years ago. Both of them
took care of the garden.
Mrs. Denlinger does a lot of
freezing and canning. In fact,
they built a cold cellar in their
new home to keep' her canned
goods and vegetables.
Mary is a skillful cook and likes
to try new recipes and improve
upon them and also is not afraid
to experiment with some new
concoctions. An example that
won for her a carrousel rotisserie
in a local bake-off and an electric
carving knife at Allentown is her :
Sour Cream Peach Tart
2 ; 3 cup sugar
2 tablespoons flour
V« teaspoon salt
1 cup sour cream
1 tablespoon lemon juice
V* cup butter
Vfe teaspoon vanilla
x k teaspoon almond extract
1 egg
2 cups diced peaches
Vz cup brown sugar
1-3 cup flour
Pastry for one 9 inch crust
Line pie dish with pastry. Mix
sugar, flour, salt, sour cream,
lemon juice, extracts and egg.
Add the diced peaches, pour
mixture into pie crust and
sprinkle lightly with cinnamon.
Bake in hot oven (400 degrees)
for 25 minutes.
Remove from oven and cover
evenly within V 2 inch of edge with
crumbs that have been made by
mixing together the brown sugar,
1-3 cup flour and butter. Return to
oven and bake 25 to 30 minutes
more,
Another of her " tasty con
coctions is:
Zucchini Supreme
1 medium zucchini squash, diced
1 medium-sized onion, sliced
Vz medium-sized green pepper,
cut up
2 medium tomatoes, peeled and
diced
Salt to taste
Stew vegetables together in
small amount of water for 20 to 25
minutes, till soft.
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Blueberry Coffee Cake
% cup sugar
Va cup soft bhtter or shortening
1 egg
Vz cup milk
Cream sugar and shortening.
Stir in egg and milk. Sift together
and stir into above mixture:
2 cups sifted flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
'A teaspoon salt
Blend in 2 cups blueberries
Spread batter in greased 9 inch
square pan. Sprinkle with topping
made by mixing;
'A cup sugar
1-3 cup flour
Vz teaspoon cinnamon
V* cup soft butter
Bake at 375 degrees for 25 to 35
minutes.
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Baked Corn
Stir together:
2 cups grated fresh corn, frozen
grated corn or cream style
canned corn
Vz cup flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
IIAl l A teaspoons salt
1 tablespoon sugar
Dash pepper
2 eggs, slightly beaten
2 cups milk
Mix milk with eggs. Then pour
into corn mixture. Pour into
buttered shallow baking dish.
Pour 2 tablespoons melted butter
over top. Bake at 325 degrees for
1 hour and 15 minutes.
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Pepper and Lima Bean Relish
1 part green lima beans to
2 parts peppers
Use same amount of red as
yellow peppers. Cut peppers in
V/2 inch squares. Cook vegetables
till almost soft.
Syrup:
1 cup vinegar
l cup water
1 cup sugar
Bring syrup to boil and boil one
minute. Drop vegetables in syrup
and bring to boil. Jar and seal.