ASS—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 15,1980 Gingerbread bams put the on Elizabethtown Young Farmers MT, JOY - Sugar and spice and everything nice, that’s what gingerbread bams are made of. With fifteen batches of gingerbread, twelve pounds of confectioners sugar and a hundred hours of work, three energetic women fashioned centerpieces that stole the show. The occasion was the fifth Each barn was slightly different from every other barn. When viewed in a group, it looked like a winter-clad farm community. Every individual barn was complete with details such as crosspiece doors, windows, pretzel stick barnyard fence, farmer and his livestock. POULTRYMEN MUSHROOM Growers Curtis Engine & Equipment, Inc. 6120 Holabird Avenue Baltimore, Maryland 21224 (301) 633 5161 (800) 638 4923 Toll Free annual banquet of the Elizabethtown Young Farmers Association. And the women were: Nancy Garber, Joyce Shultz, and Patty Hudson. See related story, Elizabethtown Young Farmers banquet page C3O. The idea came to Nancy Garber while she was searching for something *' Curtis can provide the power you need for most electrical needs... 24 hours a day from the following locations — ENTAL and RENTAL PURCHASE PLANS are available for Standby Electrical Systems to protect you from financial loss Our programs are tailored to meet your individual budget l unusual to use as a cen terpiece for the annual banquet. Nancy had seen Patty present a program to the Rheems Elementary School. Nancy approached Patty, proprietor of Pattycakes bakery which specializes in gingerbread houses, about the project. Since funds were limited, 4 * % # * Shown from left to right are Patty Hudson, proprietor of Pattycakes, Nancy Garber and Joyce Shultz. Nancy prevailed upon Patty to allow herself and a friend, Joyce Shultz, help make the fifteen barns which would be needed for centerpieces. Patty created a suitable pattern which included a simple two-story barn complete with pretzel barnyard and a horse and cow. An additional 290 tiny gingerbread boys and girls were baked and decorated to stand by the barns and to be used as decorations in the cupcakes for dessert Fif teen of the boys on the cupcakes matched a boy on the barn, and those people who found a matching boy at their place at dinner won a gmgerbread barn as a door prize. This was not a first at tempt at a barn for Patty. Just a month earlier, Nancy • • icmg banquet V, had asked her to recreate their bans and outbuildings including silos as a gift to her husband for his birthday Working from photographs and suggestions by Nancy, Patty made a very per sonalized “Garber barn.” Eleanor DeLong, a Quarrwille cake decorator, «b<*)ooft than just the No.l skid steer loader! TURN THE BOBCAT into abackhoe forklift grapple too Does the work of many one-job machines THE BOBCAT comesas narrow as 35 is built low to work in tight areas turns full circle in its own tracks LET US DEMONSTRATE what the Melroe Bobcat loader can do for you Drop m or call Bobcat—for the new breed of farmer and contractor GRUMELLI’S FARM SERVICE Quarry vide, PA 17566 Ph 717-786-7318 Ray Showalter 717-665-7174 Vv,#r A *' 4r 4, k j. I. •-'* *P <***** also donated time to help complete the structures The results of all of their labors were fifteen sturdy gingerbread barns laboring under their snowy loads of confectioner’s snow which served as lively con versation starters for a room full of appreciative farmers MORE EXCAVATE scarify rake plow and remove snow clean barns sheds drill postholes Bobcat does it BUY OR RENT a variety of buckets and other attachments Bob Tach locks them on fast and solid RHODES EQUIPMENT 1085 Industrial Blvd Southampton, PA 18966 Ph 215-677 6000 NORMAN D. CLARK Honey Grove, PA 17035 Ph 717-734-3482
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