—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 4,1978
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Homemade goods seen at Lancaster Town Fair
By SALLY BAIR
Staff Writer
LANCASTER
Homemade bread, egg
cheese and hand-fashioned
mints greeted visitors to the
“Old Order of Cooking”
demonstration by members
of Lancaster County’s
Societies of Farm Women at
First Presbyterian Church
as part of the Lancaster
Town Fair held Tuesday and
Wednesday of this week.
The demonstration proved
to be a popular visual and
edible addition to the
colorful fair which spread
among five downtown
buildings. The theme for this
year’s fair was “Our Living
Heritage,” and the foods
demonstration clearly
recalled our heritage of good
cooking
On Tuesday Mrs. Eugene
Breneman, Conestoga R 2,
and a member of Farm
Women Society 23, was
International
activities
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - In
view of agriculture’s in
creasing international role,
many members of the
Future Farmers of America
might be thinking “in
ternational” at their Golden
Anniversary Celebration at
the 1978 National Convention
in Kansas City, Missouri,
this November 7 to 10. The
FFA International Program
has been part of the FFA
Convention since 1948 and
the FFA’s Work Experience
Abroad program is
celebrating its tenth an
niversary, according to FFA
Manager of International
Programs, Lenme Carnage.
Carriage expects at least 50
international guests at this
year’s Convention.
The past several years
have brought a new
awareness of international
interdependence in
agriculture During this time
FFA international activities
have steadily increased as
more and more members
show an mterest in traveling
abroad to gam firsthand
knowledge of agriculture in
other nations In 1978, 75
FFA members participated
in the FFA Work Experience
Abroad Program. Through
the program students are
placed for three to six
months on farms in Europe
South America or the South
Pacific, where they live and
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happily demonstrating the
art of making homemade
bread, something she
learned from her grand
mother. She said, “I spent a
day with my grandmother
and she taught me 1 am
using her recipe which she
has been using to bake bread
for 40 years. My grand
mother is Hannah Smoker,
and she is 88 years old and
still bakes bread.”
Mrs. Breneman made the
work of bread baking look
easy, and the loaves she
producted were quickly sold
to fairgoers who recognized
(and smelled) a good thing
immediately. Mrs.
Breneman did her demon
strating dressed in the dress
of her Amish Great Grand
mother, Lizzie Kulp Buch.
The dress featured the at
tached apron and cape, and
she also wore a night cap
worn by her grandmother.
She didn’t admit to any
secrets for a sure fire suc-
featured
work with farm families.
Many of the participants in
the 1977-78 WEA Program
are expected to be in Kansas
City to share their travel and
learning experiences with
other FFA members.
The FFA WEA Program
also includes similar
placement opportunities in
the U S. for students from
other nations. In 1978 the
FFA Organization assisted
some 130 agriculture
students from other nations
in locating placement ex
periences on U.S. farms
Many of these students will
be attending the National
FFA Convention.
have a
nice weekend.
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cess, but Mrs. Breneman
said that her grandmother
used “Occident flour” which
she purchases from a mill,
raw sugar and lard for her
successful bread.
She added, “I used to
make all of our bread, but
since we have three children
I only bake occasionally.”
She was obviously enjoying
showing the visitors how to
make bread. “There were so
many people who were so
eager to see and leam how
you do it.”
Mrs. Ruth Kauffman,
Lancaster R 2, also a
member of Society 23, was
busily demonstrating how to
make egg cheese. She said,
“We’ve had a lot of interest
in the egg cheese. The recipe
is something handed down
from one generation to
another, but is strictly
Pennsylvania Dutch.” Mrs.
Kauffman said she makes
egg cheese at home. She was
very popular because she
offered samples of her egg
cheese on small tidbits of
bread with molasses Large
molds of cheese were
available for sale.
Nearby County President
Mrs. Carl Diller, Lancaster,
worked industriously
making lovely mints which
were also offered for sale A
display of antique cooking
utensils drew a lot of at
tention The antiques were
supplied by Mrs. Diller and
Mrs. Cloyd Wenter.
Farm Women Society 22
had members on hand to sell
copies of their cookbook
which features many “Old
Order of Cooking” recipes
along with some which are
more modem
Mrs. Diller said, “This is
our first year here, and we
didn’t know what to expect.
There are many people
coming through who are
really interested.”
Participation by the Farm which was a delightfi
Women offered a small mixture of arts, crafts an
homey touch to the Fair delicious goodies.