84-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 14,1994
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Joyce Bupp
Let’s celebrate!
Everytfme you turn around,
we’re celebrating, saluting and
otherwise paying tribute to some
momentous happening or memor-
able development.
It might be National Spider
Penn View Country Auction
Spotlights Quilts, Food, Fun
Since 1961 families and friends
have been flocking to the Penn
View Country Auction in search
of beautiful handmade quilts, Pen
nsylvania Dutch foods and quality
auction items. This year’s two-day
event begins Friday. May 20, with
a chicken barbecue from 4 to 9
p.m. and a general auction begin
ning at 7:00 p.m.
On Saturday, May 21, a break
fast featuring pancakes or French
toast and sausage, kicks off the
day’s events (6:00-10:30 a.m.).
The general auction continues at 9
a.m. featuring sports memorabilia,
original artwork, and Winross
trucks (11 a.m.). The day’s main
event is the Pennsylvania Dutch
Quilt Auction at 1 p.m. This popu
lar auction features a fine assort
ment of handmade quilts, wall
hangings and comforters. All
quilts are made and contributed by
patrons of Penn View Christian
School, Mennonite sewing circles
or community friends. A selection
of these quilts will be on display
May 9-19 during regular business
hours in the lobbies of Union
National Bank (Hilltown, Souder
ton, Kulpsville, Franconia); Pen
nview Savings (Souderton, Fran-
Plant Day or Worldwide Pencil
Invention Week or Take Your Cat
To Lunch Month or The Interna
tional Year of the Tyrannosaurus
Rex.
All this celebration, of course,
is enhanced and reinforced by
conia) and Harleyville National
Bank (Harleysville).
Throughout the event, visitors
can also enjoy fresh strawberry
pies, fresh potato doughnuts,
chicken com soup, funnel cakes,
sausage sandwiches, and much
more. Children can enjoy a petting
zoo or participate in special games
Saturday from 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Craft artisans will demonstrate
their skills Saturday from 7:30
a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Returning for a
fourth year will be an antique veh
icle show, on Saturday from 8
a.m. to 1:30 p.m., weathering per
mitting. The auction closes Satur
day at 4 p.m.
All proceeds benefit Penn View
Christian School, Souderton, an
elementary and middle school
affiliated with the Franconia Men
nonite Conference. To located the
Auction, take the Pennsylvania
Turnpike to Exit 31 at Lansdale.
Turn left and follow Route 63 to
the next traffic light; turn left on
Forty Foot Road and follow to
Christopher Dock Mennonite
High School Campus. Free park
ing and shuttle buses are available.
For information call (215)
723-1196.
those friendly merchandising
folks who encourage you to send a
card, send a gift, or send some
thing so long as you generate a
turnover of marketing dollars.
Not to be outdone; by such
upbeat, outgoing trends of society,
we here on the farm'have begun
saluting remarkable remem
brances with our own declara
tions. For instance, in remem
brance of this past January, we
have set it aside as East Coast Col
lapsing Buildings Month. Fol
lowed by February, noted for its
Annual Thaw Out Cattle Foun
tains Week.
March brought a rousing turn
out for Can’t We Soon Haul All
This Manure? Day. And in April
we rejoiced to Rebuilding The
Collapsed Buildings Month.
May has now been set aside as
Save-A-Chicken Month.
This dubious salute has come
about to honor our own homebred
line of half-bantam, half-full-sized
chickens, the results of several
years of natural crossing in which
nay and all genes responsible for
even a lick of common sense have
been bred out. Resulting trait char
acteristics include beautiful feath
ering, uncommonly loud, squawk
ing vocal chords, speed and agility
which defy catching and no mus
cling whatsoever worth putting on
a barbeque grill.
A worthless strain of domestic
bird, if ever there was one. Never
theless, we tolerate them because
they’re too much trouble to bother
with, generally stay out of the way
and do serve as interesting and
novel conversation starters, which
usually begin with the phrase,
“Those stupid chickens ”
That’s what I found myself
muttering recently while leaning
out over a pool of manure slurry,
trying not to fall face-first into the
dark, soupy mess in which a
gorgeous-colored rooster
floundered.
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Moments before, I’d rounded a
comer where several of the noisy
birds were raising a senseless
racket (later I saw the dog curled
up nearby). To quell the loud fuss,
I waved my hands to chase the
squawkers away and one roos
ter flew to land on what looked
solid, but wasn’t underneath. The
pool of manure was too deep to
step in with the sneakers I wore
and the chicken too far way to lean
and pick up. With a piece of
board, I finally manuvered the
bird around to where I could grab
a handful of tail feathers.
Twenty-four hours later
Highbourne Farm
(Contlnutd from Pago B 3)
ets have evolved, the white
tablecloth restaurants which
demand the very choicest in cuts
and tavern establishments which
favor less costly cuts, like ribs.
Customers are primarily in Dau
phin, York and Lancaster coun
ties, with plans for expansion into
other surrounding counties. Sum
mertime shipments go via a mes
senger service that delivers in a
few hours, while parcel service
works well during cold months.
“We try to educate the chefs,”
Behrman says of the delicate
cooking needs of venison. “It
should never be served well done
since venison has no fat and gets
tougher with overcooking. A lot of
chefs, though, have German or
Swiss backgrounds or experience
and are familiar with venison
because of its popularity in
Europe.”
Venison is often criticized for
having a gamey taste, an undesir
able flavor that Behrmann says
often comes from the adrenalin
pumped into the system of a
scared, running wild deer. Failure
to immediately remove the scent
glands and the hide also contribute
to an off-flavor, as does letting the
almost to the minute the same
rooster turned up tangled in a
piece of plastic-mesh in which we
wrap our large, round bales.
Where he picked up the large sec
tion of mesh wrap remains a mys
tery, but he had it firmly entangled
around his feet and sharp spurs.
Again, amidst his screeching pro
tests, I was able to set him free.
This bird may have more lives
than most cats.
So, in honor of our rooster, join
me in celebrating Save-A-
Chicken Month.
Save it for Sunday dinner.
Extra crispy, please.
carcass hang unrefrigerated for
several days.
Stags go for the venison market
from 14 to 28 months of age, are
aged at SO-degree for five to seven
days and then cut and immediately
packaged.
“Venison should always be
thawed in the refrigerator and nev
er on the countertop or in the
microwave,” emphasizes this
marketer. “The meat will get
tough.” For that reason, he prefers
to market fresh cuts over frozen.
Nutrition-wise, venison is simi
lar to boneless breast of chicken,
and comparably low in fat and
cholesterol. It compares in cost to
quality veal or fish, but has no
shrinkage, according to
Behrmann.
“We like venison and eat a lot
of it,” he smiles, adding that he
and Nancy have collected numer
ous recipes that make their favo
rite commodity, even less tender
cuts like shoulder, delicious and
fork-soft.
For more information on veni
son or red deer, Highboume Farm
may be reached at R 3, Box 296,
Dallastown, PA, 17313, (717)
428-2774 or (voice or fax)
717-428-2303.
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