£2—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, April 18,1981
Apple recipe
worth *5O
to Eleanor Campbell
BY JANE BRESEE
Staff Correspondent
Eleanor Campbell of Sayre,
Bradford County, manages to
glorify the Lord in everything she
does Being one of the top ten
finalists in the Pennsylvania Apple
Recipe Contest was no exception,
for with half of the $5O prize money
she will send five kids to Child
Evangelism Summer Day Camp
Eleanor, and husband Harold,
live on their seven acre farm quite
secluded off Keystone Avenue, a
busy street connecting Sayre and
Waverly.
Originally, the place was a 14
Grandfather Apple Doll with his miniature Dessert. The cider sauce is ready in the blue
cane guard the prize winning Apple Pudding pitcher.
janor woi >on. . quilt designed by herself. Appliqued on
each block are calico leaves patterned after leaves from local
acre truck farm bought in 1880 by
Harold’s great uncle, Tom Paul,
who came over from Scotland
where he was a gardener in one of
the Queen’s gardens Before Mr.
Paul died, he extracted a promise
from Harold’s parents that they
would move there and take care of
his maiden sister This they did,
and Harold was later born in the
same house where he has stayed
all his life, carrying on the family
tradition of truck farming.
A few years ago, the town bought
seven acres from them, but the
buildings remain as they were; set
back from the street and
Eleanor Campbell of Sayre finishes the last with Child Evangelism Fellowship, cooking and/j
of ten brightly colored rugs she has loomed making crafts,
this winter. Eleanor likes to keep busy helping
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trees. (Photos by Phyllis Campbell)
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surrounded by large trees.
Harold has run the Keystone
Cider Mill all of his life, in late
years pressing as much as 500 tons
of apples a season into cider. He
buys and hauls the apples from
New York State, and then delivers
the cider to many outlets to sell.
From some of the earliest and
most perfect apples, they make
candied apples which they sell
from their stand by the street
along with the apples, cider, tons of
pumpkins and squashes, and other
farm produce.
Harold also built a roller skating
rink many years ago, called the
Keystone Skating Rink. It is now
being operated by their son Fred.
Being the only rink for miles
around, it is greatly used by
•s.
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churches and private groups as
well as the public.
Within the last two or three
years, Harold rented about 4 acres
of sandy river bottom land just
south of Athens, and planted \
strawberries. The well-managed '
patch has yielded tons of
strawberries to people who pick
their own.
Eleanor fits into the Campbell
family beautifully helping with all
the outdoor work, and loving to
make “homey” crafts. Through
the years she has grown her own
flowers to make dried flower
bouquets, and also makes corn
husk dolls, dried apple dolls, and
many other clever things which
she sells out front from a cart
beside the apples and cider.
It was her lifetime association
with apples that helped Eleanor
decide to enter the Pennsylvania
Apple Recipe Contest which she
noticed last fall in the local paper,
The Evening Times. “Why not,”
she said she thought at the tune,”
“it won’t hurt to try,” and she sent
m a recipe for Apple Pudding
Dessert. j
The dessert is one she had tasted *
m an eating place once in New
York State she and Harold were up
buying apples. Originally the
recipe called for lemon sauce, but
she substituted cider sauce in
stead.
She had almost forgotten about
the whole thing until, in January, a
phone call came saying she had
been chosen as one of the top ten
finalists out of 220 entries. She was
asked to come to Hershey on
February 3 with the baked recipe
to compete for the first prize.
Well, she said’ she was shocked,
but after thinking it' over a while
she decided to go. After all, she
might win the $2OO.
Her biggest problem was having
the recipe freshly baked the day of
the judging. The Hershey Con
vention Center was B good 4 or 5
hour drive away. But she solved
the problem by inviting Sylvia
Murphy along. (Sylvia’s husband,
Malcolm, is the president of the
Board of Child Evangelism in
Bradford County, and Eleanor
knew them well). * i
They started out at 4 am,
stopped at Sylvia’s friend’s house
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