—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 29, 1973
28
Society 3
(Continued From. Page 26)
recalls.
All that has changed now, and
the Farm Women Society’s stand
is the only one where hungry
patrons can “come in and sit
down.”
Last year, the Farm Women
served over 2,000 platters, plus
countless sandwiches and bowls
of soup. To prepare that much
food is no small matter. Mrs.
The Society 3 food tent at the Ephrata Fair is a popular place.
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Stuber says that groceries were
ordered “a few weeks ago.”
Several women order the
necessary supplies, but just a few
of the items on Mrs. Stuber’s
shopping list include 50 pounds of
coffee, two cases of ketchup, four
cases of sauerkraut, eight pounds
of salt, 21 pounds of macaroni, 155
pounds of chicken and 1200
clams.
Mrs. Stuber explained that the
clams are bought frozen and in
the shell. The Saturday before the
fair members and their husbands
meet to deal with these 1200
clams. Husbands scrub them,
and the women open and grind
them up to be used in the cakes.
They are then refrozen until time
to mix up the deviled clams.
According to Mrs. Stuber,
“Two mainstays of the Society,
the Misses Mary and Ada Royer,
for many years made the deviled
clam cakes at their home.” These
two charter members, who reside
at Ephrata RD2, now assist Mrs.
Robert Gregory in making the
clam cakes.
The pepper cabbage is also
red by members on
Saturday preceding the Fair and
the Monday before the Fair they
gather to cook the chicken for
chicken pot pie. Mrs. Stuber says
they buy legs and breasts for the
pot pie.
The only problem posed by the
uncertain food situation at the
present time is that the Farm
Women, while assured of suf
ficient supplies, could not
establish a price for their platters
in advance of the Fair.
When asked how many people
it takes to run the stand, Mrs.
Stuber replied, “All that we can
get.”
She said members, husbands,
children and other relatives of
members all pitch in to run the
stand during fair week. There are
five people needed in the kitchen
and 16 waitresses to serve
patrons. She said many working
members stop by during their
lunch hour to help. 1
Husbands play a big part
because they build the stand on
Monday evening and take it down
around midnight on Saturday.
Many help in the stand. “My
husband is a marvelous dish
washer,” Mrs. Stuber said.
The food stand is the Society’s
only money-making project each
year. The money is used for all
the society’s programs during the
year. They give to charities of all
kinds, contributed to the
Ephrata Library, furnished a
room for the Ephrata Hospital
and participate in the county
Farm Women activity which this
year is the Welsh Mountain
Clinic. The money is also used to
entertain the husbands who work
so hard at the fair, and the
children at a Christmas party,
according to Mrs. Stuber.
Mrs. Stuber, who is also a
director on the Fair Committee
and in charge of general exhibits,
says, “I feel the fair is a good •
thing for the community because
it gives organizations an op
portunity to earn money for their
projects. The Fair association
itself doesn’t make a lot of money
- expenses are terrific - and they
buy and maintain a car for the
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