—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Jan. 18. 1975
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Farm Wife
When you approach this well-kept farm you see the sign
"Rayba Acres Farm, Notary Public and Guest Ac
commodations.” Rcba has been doing notary work for B‘-j
years. This work consists largely of notarizing signatures,
filling out applications for license plates, driving permits
and car titles. She says she tries to be home Fridays and
Saturdays as they are big days as are Mondays. Her
earliest caller was at 3 A.M. but generally people come to
secure her services between 7 A.M. and 10 P.M.
Mrs. Ranck also does bo kkeeping for Sauder Chevrolet
Company in Manheim at her home. She does bookwork
plus a financial statement for the end of the month. She
does this work mostly in her spare time but puts in about
40 hours a month at it, largely the first ten days of the
month. She says her home work comes first but naturally
the office work comes first when her month end work
deadline is nearing. She has worked for Sauders for 12
years.
Another business Mrs. Ranck is conducting is lodging
tourists. She is beginning her fifth season. She lodges
people throughout the entire year. She has ac
commodations for 12. There are three guest rooms, four
when needed, and she has handled as many as 14 at one
time. Being so near the tourists attractions of Lancaster
County she gets a lot of people for just a few nights but she
also has a number of them return for just the relaxation of
living on the farm. She doesn’t prepare meals for any of
them but this is not a problem since there a number of
good restaurants nearby. She is registered with the
Penna. Dutch Tourist Bureau and people who have been
at their place tell others She has entertained guests from
24 states and from 18 other countries
Reba grew up on Kauffman Fruit Farms, ]ust east of
Bird-m-Hand on Route 340. She is the only child of Mr. and
Mrs. John E. Kauffman, Bird-m-Hand RDI. A brother and
three nephews are also in the business at the present time.
They have 100 acres mostly in peaches and apples but they
also have cherries, pears, blue and white grapes and a few
plums. They have a cider press and make cider to sell
Reba’s father is in charge of their locker plant and does
custom work in cutting meat for people and also tends to
their grocery store. Reba went to the Weavertown one
room school for four years then to’Weavertown Mennomte
School. She graduated from Lancaster Mennomte High
School. She worked for the John N. Sauder Auto Company
of New Holland for V-'i years before marriage. They sell
Chevrolets and Oldsmobiles.
Reba and Ray have three children. Robert, “Robbie”, is
10 years old and is in fourth grade at Locust Grove
Mennonite School. His chores consist of feeding the sheep,
feeding the heifers, feeding the cows hay and bedding the
cows and heifers on Sundays and occasionally other
times. He hopes to get in the 4-H Holstein Club this year.
He took piano lessons.
Rhonda is 7 and in second grade at Locust Grove School.
She likes to draw and paint. She made a nice in-depth
snow scene before Christmas. She helps with feeding at
the barn. Both she and Robbie had calves they raised. She
also helps her mother in the house.
Ryan is their active two-year-old son.
Rancks are members of Ridgeview Mennonite Church,
noith of Intercourse. Reba belongs to the sewing circle
which meets once a month. She says “I enjoy that.” They
do quilting, knot comforters, make dresses, pajamas,
diapers, hem blankets and make health and sewmg kits.
They get their materials cut ready to sew from Paradise
Cutting Room, On the Paradise Mennonite Church lot, and
take the finished products to the Mennonite Central
Committee at Akron. Reba used to-teach the primary
Sunday School class. She and Ray sang in Christmas
choruses. Ray was Sunday School Superintendent for
three years and the third year was on the church council.
He did teach one of the adult Sunday School classes but
substitutes for the various adult age groups now. Reba
was on the staff of “Maple Breezes”, their church’s
district publication, for five years and editor one year.
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The staff gets together one day a month to edit it. Their
district comprises their church, a church they started in
New York City, two in North Carolina, one in Tennessee
and one in McKean County, Pa.
Ray belongs to the Pa. Farmers Association, Pa.
Holstein Association, the Holstein-Friesian Association
and Inter-State Milk Producers, He was president of the
local in 1972 and 1973. He was a delegate to Philadelphia in
1973 and Rcba went also. He is in DHIA. He had 611 pounds
of butterfat and 15,557 pounds of milk rolling herd average
ending September 1974. He had 619 pounds of butterfat in
December.
Ray and Reba have been active in Locust Grove Parent
Teacher Fellowship. They go to most of the meetings and
Reba was cashier at their auction in July for their building
fund. She was treasurer of Paradise Elementary PTO two
years also.
Rancks have their work done by 6 P.M. and enjoy their
evenings at home. Reba plays the piano. She also does
fancy work in the evenings. She says “I love to knit, it’s
my number one hobby. I love to quilt. I do some sewing. I
crocheted two afghans. I’ve done some crewel and regular
embroidery.” She knitted several afghans, sweaters, a
lap robe and a half dozen cap and scarf sets. She made
several for gifts. She has made 6 or 8 quilts, either ap
phqued or embroidered, and donated some to the Men
nonite Relief Sale. She also makes needlepoint pillow tops.
Reba attributes her creativeness to her mother. Mrs.
Kauffman makes all her own clothes, makes a lot of quilts
for Reba and her children and for the relief sales. She also
makes afghans for the'relief sale. She knits, crochets,
does embroidery and needlepoint.
The family enjoys picnicmg on their picnic grounds in
the summer and going bicycle riding together. Mr. and
Mrs. Ranck and the two older children have bikes and
Ryan rides on a seat with his mother. They also rent a
camper to go camping in the summer. They went camping
to the Great Smoky Mountains in North Carolina, Black
Water Falls in West Virginia and the Poconos. They flew
to Hawaii with 200 others on the tour in 1972 and have
traveled a lot by car. Reba also traveled before she was
married. She had been in all but four of our 50 states. In
connection with traveling she started rnliectmg little
pitchers in 1953 and by now has 115 or 120. Most of her
pitchers are souvenirs from places she has been. The last
one she got in Milwaukee last November.
Reba enjoys working with her flowers. First to bloom
are crocus, then daffodils, tulips, annuals, begonias and
she has a lot of mums m the fall.
They have a nice garden in the summer. Raycultivates
it and Reba picks the vegetables and freezes them. She
also freezes their strawberries and makes strawberry
jelly. She cans 150 to 175 quarts of fruits, mostly peaches.
Mrs. Ranck says she’s a meat and potato cook because
that’s what her family likes. She isn’t much for trying new
recipes but the following are family favorites-
4 cups flour
2 cups brown sugar
% cup shortening
Mix together. Reserve 1 cup for top of cake
Add to crumbs:
1 cup molasses (King syrup)
1 tablespoon soda
2 cups boiling water
Pour into greased 13 x 9 inch pan. Sprinkle crumbs on
top. Bake, at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.
3 eggs
V 2 cup sugar
3 tablespoons flour
Juice from 1 No. 2Va or a No. 2 can pineapple chunks
Cool till thick. Cool. '
Mix with pineapple chunks:
2. cups miniature marshmallows
3 oranges
% to 1 cup-whipping cream whipped or 2 cups Cool Whip
CHILI
1 pound ground beef (optional - onion if desired)
teaspoons salt
1 ¥2, teaspoons chili powder
3 tablespoons flour
1 6-oz. can tomato paste
3 cups water
* 1
30-oz. can kidney beans
Brown beef, stir in salt, chili powder and flour. Add
tomato paste and beans. ITnn with the water as needed.
Simmer 45 minutes.
GRAHAM CRACKER PUDDING
Line a glass dish with ground graham crackers mixed
with melted butter.
IVz cups brown sugar
2 tablespoons butter
V* cup milk
Cook 5 minutes.
Add 3 cups milk.
Mix together:
2 beaten egg yolks
4 tablespoons flour
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2 tablespoons cornstarch, gradually adding 1 cup milk
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CHICKEN POT PIE
1 Vis pounds meaty chicken pieces
2 or 3 potatoes
2 teaspoons salt
Water to cover
Cook chicken in salt water until tender, cool slightly.
Take meat off bones and cut into bite-size pieces. Add
walnut size pieces of potatoes. Bring to rapid boil and drop
in pot pie squares.
POT PIE DOUGH
2 cups flour #
'j teaspoon salt
2 eggs (break up with fork)
2 - 3 tablespoons water.
Roll very thin.
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