Having Fun, Raising Funds, Working Together: What 4-H
ANDY ANDREWS
Lancaster Farming Staff
MANHEIM Lancaster Co.)
4-H membership is more than
simply working on project books
and competing at fairs. To Saddle
Cinches 4-H’ers, it means raising
money for charities ... and of
course having fun.
ANSWER—Thanks to Mildred K. Vorndran of Webster, New
York, for this tried-and-true recipe for cucumber relish. She
also mixes a small amount of it with mayonnaise to make tar
tar sauce.
12 unpeeled cucumbers (not too large)
3 red peppers
3 green peppers
12 large onions
Coarsely chop ingredients. Sprinkle with Vi cup salt. Let
stand overnight. Drain and discard juice. Add
11/2 quarts vinegar
5 cups sugar
Vi ounce (1 tablespoon) celery seed
'A ounce (1 tablespoon) mustard seed
Let come to a boil. Then make the following paste'
heaping Vi cup flour
3 teaspoons dry mustard
1 teaspoon turmeric
'A cup vinegar
Add hot mixture to paste. Cooktogether until well-blended.
Can into jars. Yields 10 pints. Mildred puts the jars in a hot
water bath and cooks for 10-12 minutes to seal.
ANSWER—This is the season for soybeans. Ida Keeny,
New Freedom, sent these instructions for shelling edible soy
beans. She writes that this method goes fast and is a pleasant
job. For those who have trouble finding seeds, ask a garden
supply store to order them for you.
To shell soybeans, wait until most of the beans are filled out
but not yellow. Pull by the stalks, take them to a shady place,
sit down and pull off the pods.
Blanch in a small amount of water, in the pressure cooker,
just bring it up to 15 pounds pressure, take off and run cold
water on them until pressure is down. Or, you can boil them in
a kettle for 5 minutes. Drain the beans and put into a shallow
cake pans. As soon as cool enough to handle, squeeze out
the beans into a bowl of ice water. Drain and they are ready to
freeze.
At this year’s Elizabethtown
Fair in late August, members of the
Lancaster County-based horse
club raised more than $BBO to ben
efit various charities throughout
the state.
How did they do it?
They opened up their stables,
brought out their best ponies, and
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Cucumber Relish
trotted them out to the fair. While
at Elizabethtown, they used the
beef show ring to stage pony rides
for young and old (well, mostly
young) at a cost of $1 a ride.
According to Lori Holton,
Saddle Cinches 4-H club leader,
884 people rode the ponies, “a cou
ple of adults but mostly kids, from
babies to teens,” she said. The
money was used to benefit various
charities, including the S. June
Smith Center, the Four Diamond
Fund, and the 4-H Therapeutic
Riding Program.
At a recent interview at the five
acre Kendy Allen farm in Man
heim, Holton said that the ponies
used were all project ponies,
including Shetlands, Welsh, small
horses, and Chincoteagues.
(Allen’s farm is home to 17 horses,
many 4-H project animals.) They
variety of names, includ
At this year’s Elizabethtown Fair in late August, members of the Lancaster County
based Saddle Cinches 4-H Horse Club raised more than $BBO to benefit various chari
ties throughout the state. From left, Lyndsy Holton, Michael Green riding Comet, Ker
ra Allen, Pat Nichols, Sarah Gehman riding Dapples, Ken Allen, Kelly Nichols, Danielle
Gehman riding Red Mist, Katye Allen at halter, Rebecca Gehman petting the pony, and
Lori Holton. Photo by Andy Androwa
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ing Red Mist, Black Mist, Partly
Cloudy, and others.
The Saddle Cinches numbers 71
members this year, according to
Pat Nichols, a leader who also
helped out with the riding. Each
night, about IS 4-H’ers were on
hand to lead the horses to raise the
money at the fair.
“One 4-H member would lead
and one would spot,” said Nichols.
“They would take turns.”
For some 4-H’ers, it was a chal
lenge to get the animals adjusted to
the show ring, between the tractor
pulls and the rides, in the area used
to show beef. Some of the ponies
had to be led around the ring about
40 times, in all, before they finally
settled down, said Nichols.
The rides were conducted from
S p.m.-8:30 p.m. each night The
group plans to do the same again
next year.
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Is All About
A benefit of the 4-H riding at
Elizabethtown includes learning to
work with a group toward a com
mon goal. This helps further the
directives of 4-H: to teach mem
bers to work together and to learn
the benefits of cooperation, how to
set goals, how to learn more about
working with the public, and the
rewards of working with horses.
This was the group’s second
year at the fairgrounds.
“It was an easy way to raise
funds.” said Nichols. “We had
done trash pickup at the fair
before, but the kids enjoyed this a
lot more.”
And not only do the 4-H’ers
learn to work as a group, but the
time spent helps them earn the
coveted Saddle Cinches 4-H
supersilk jacket, for which many
are proud to wear at the shows.