822-Uncastor Fuming, Saturday, November 15,1986 NEWARK, Del. - Delaware’s 4- H leaders are taking today’s video technology into the kitchen to teach youngsters how to bake bread. With a $2,000 grant from Nabisco Brands, area 4-H agent Joy Sparks and extension foods specialist Dr. Sue Snider have developed, videotaped and demonstrated five educational programs on basic breadmaking techniques. As a result, more than 140 4-H members in 10 clubs are particr in Dough boy Kyle Judd of the Fantastics 4-H Club rolls out his yeast bread before shaping it into a Christmas ornament. Ten clubs throughout the state participated in the bread making project using video tapes prepared by Joy Sparks, area 4-H agent, and Dr. Sue Snider, extension food and nutrition specialist. Breodmaldng Videos breads projects this year. “Youth today seem entranced by the television set,” says Sparks. “We decided to see if we could build on that fascination to create interest in baking breads.” The video demonstrations in clude such topics as the measuring of ingredients and their functions, making muffins, making biscuits, making yeast breads and shaping yeast breads. The tapes are in Beta, VHS or 3 /4-inch format and are available from the extension Help 4-H'ers Learn Basie Techniques office in each county. In addition to the five tapes, Sparks and Snider developed a nine-page leader’s guide which outlines the key points made in each video lesson and provides questions to ask 4-H’ers to make sure they understand the concepts presented. Videotapes were chosen as the medium for the breads message because of their portability and availability. “More than one-third of America’s 86 million households have VCRs, and over three-fourths Lebanon 4-H'ers Attend Horticultural Convention LEBANON - Lebanon County 4- H members Dawn Hawryluk, Janet Kleinfelter and Regina Roof recently attended the 52nd Annual National Junior Horticultural Association Convention in Raleigh, N.C. The convention brought together young horticultural leaders from across the nation who competed in various demonstrations and contests, toured the Research Triangle area and learned more about horticulture. Convention delegates, ages 15 to 22, from 22 states competed for national honors in environmental beautification, production and marketing, experimental hor ticulture, speaking contests, gardening, plant propagation, and achievement and leadership recognition. Some 200 delegates competed in A LESSON WELL LEARNED... 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Trainees were taught to shape different rolls from one type of dough and were introduced to a range of quick bread and yeast bread recipes from cloverleaf rolls to sweet potato biscuits. After the leaders returned to their clubs, the results were ex traordinary. At least 250 4-H’ers participated in breads evaluation as part of food judging contests in the first six months of this year. eluded horticultural and leader ship workshops; messages from experts in the horticultural field, and tours of historic sites, greenhouses, nurseries, farms, grocery warehouses and the campuses of N.C. State University, Duke University and the "University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Winners in regional and national competitions were announced at the awards banquet which was the climax of the four)day convention. 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