Twenty Years Baking Pies
For Farm Show Competitions
(Continued from
Pao*Bl2)
says, turning a pint jar filled with a
variety of vegetables. “This is a
good way to use up vegetables at
the end of the season.”
In addition to eating fresh, Vir
ginia stores potatoes and onions,
cans greenbeans, red beets, freez
es lima beans and broccoli, and
pickled cucumbers with dill. She
grows cabbage, swee com, and to
matoes. This year, she’s added
"Long Keeper” tomatoes. She also
make applesauce and bakes pies
from apples grown on the farm.
“I should grow garlic. I’ve got
ten organic gardening magazines,
but don’t always get to read
them,” Virginia says, adding that
her toother from Florida stops by
each summer to help with the po
tatoes. “1 always grow more than I
need, to give away. The girls come
in the summer to help.”
Virginia and Nelson’s daughter,
Carol Hobbs, lives in Virginia,
while daughter Barbara Vogt lives
in Alabama. Barbara paints and
papers a room for her mother
every summer. Both girls say their
mother does too much.
“I grow pumpkins, and gourds,
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too. I said I’d grow the gourds if
someone else decorates them,”
Virginia says. “My sister-in-law,
Ethel Smith, and Shirley Aurand,
help make some into birdhouses.
They’re good sellers at the bazaar.
We made egg-shaped gourds into
snowmen. With gourds, you never
know what you’re going to get”
Virginia also delivers church
bulletins to shut-ins. is secretary in
the Junior Department at Ellen
Chapel Church, and likes to knit
and sew. Although the energy
from her petite body seems end
less, she modestly says she has
slowed'down considerably.
“I’m not a big eater. It keeps me
busy filling everyone else up. I’m
just glad I have good health, and I
feel needed.”
Sweet Rolls
V> cup milk
K cup sugar
1 teaspoon salt
6 tablespoons shortening
% cup water
2 tablespoons sugar
2 packs 2 tablespoons dry yeast
Lukewarm milk
2 beaten eggs
3 cups flour
3 additional cups flour
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Scald milk. Add sugar, salt, and
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Add lukewarm milk mixture. Add
and stir in the beaten eggs. Add
and stir in 3 cups of flour. Beat un
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Let rise V* to one hour. Bake at
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Elm-Penryn 4-H Club
A monthly meeting of the
Elm-Penryn 4-H Community
Club is set Monday, Jan. 19 at
6:30 p.m. at Pleasant View
Retirement Community,
Manheim.
Regularly scheduled club
meetings will be held at
Pleasant View on the third
Monday of the month from
January through June from 6:30
p.m.-8 p.m.
Items up for discussion will
include the State Farm Show,
State 4-H Week/service project,*
and the County Benefit Auction.
The featured speaker for the
evening will be Katina
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coordinator. Information
regarding the addition of cake
decorating classes (scheduled to
begin Jan. 22) will be made
available to any interested 4-
H’er.
This meeting is the first of six
regularly scheduled monthly
meetings included in the atten
dance requirements of the Elm-
Penryn Community Club.
Member/parent participation, as
well as project leader involve
ment, are expected at these
meetings.
For more information about
the Elm-Penryn 4-H
Community Club or to register
your children for any of the pro
jects offered by the club, contact
Cindy Stahl at (717)664-2055.