dS-Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, September 19, 1998
Festival Features ‘Made With Chicken’
A big event of the contest was the annual chicken cook
ing contest. First place winners included, from left, Sandy
Agee, Lebanon, Caribbean Chicken Salad; Robin Norton,
Bethel, Chr nlatf Chr P< Si id Cr ->lv'
The Hinkelfest is a 7-year-old tradition in Fredericksburg.
This item donated to the festival also helps raise money
for the community organizations. The 1998 Hinkelfest
Express cake railroad car was donated by Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Leeper, Fredericksburg, and sold at auction.
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nteers at the cooking contest included, seated, from left, Helen Reedy, Barbara
and Letie Schadler. Standing in back is one of the Judges for the contest, Rep.
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FREDERICKSBURG (Leba
non Co.) Three days and
nothing but chicken.
On sale were chicken burgers,
hot dogs, com soup, and all sorts of
creative chicken combinations.
There were chicken quarters,
halves, and legs, chicken chowder,
pot pie, egg roll, stir fiy, and chick
en and waffles.
There were the “chicken men”
on hand to shake hands with young
and old alike.
Last weekend, beginning Friday
and continuing through Sunday,
more than 10,000 people from the
Fredericksburg region delighted in
the wonders of chicken at the 1998
Hinkelfest Chicken Festival at the
Farmer’s Pride Airport in
Fredericksburg.
The theme this year? What else?
“Eggs ’n’ Wings V Chicken
Things."
With great cooperating weather,
Saturday was the busiest day for
the annual “Hinkel" (German for
chicken) festival, when thousands
of people visited the Farmer’s
Pride Airport to get great chicken
meals and delight in the versatile
ways in which chicken and egg
products can be prepared.
A big event of the contest was
the annual chicken cooking contest
from which 49 recipes for chicken
and desserts were entered from 23
contestants (19 women and four
men) from all over the region,
including Fredericksburg, Pine
Grove, Jonestown, Lebanon,
Myerstown, and other places,
according to Alletta (Lctie) Schad
ler, Lebanon family agent “We
even have people from as far away
as New Jersey," she said.
The contest was open to anyone.
Lancaster Farming lists the first
place recipes in this article.
This is the 7th year for the annu
al festival, according to Mike
Zeck, chairman of the festival.
Zeck, social studies teacher at the
Lebanon City Middle School, said
the festival, begun in 1991, mirrors
the annual Dclmarva Chicken Fes
tival, sponsored by several proces
sors. The ’9B Hinkelfest was spon
sored by Farmer’s Pride, Bell and
Evans, Dutch Country Egg Farms,
College Hill, and other producers
and packers.
Proceeds after expenses for
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ANDY ANDREWS
Lancaster Fanning Staff
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chicken sold at the festival benefit
several charitable organizations,
including the Fredericksburg
Community Library, Community
Association, Fire Company,
American Legion, and Lions Club.
Volunteers worked behind the
booths, selling chicken all
weekend long.
Entertainment was provided
free. Included were lots of amuse
ment rides, demonstrations, a pet
ting zoo, craft show, and vendors.
At the contest, chicken and
dessert recipes were broken down
into six categories, according to
Letie Schadler of the Lebanon
extension office. They included
grilled breasts (which had four
entries); breasts prepared in any
variety of ways (seven entries);
dark meat, legs and thighs (10
entries); soups, sandwiches, and
chowders (six entries); egg or
chicken sandwiches (seven
entries); and desserts (IS entries).
With desserts, the recipe had to
include at least four eggs.
Winners received $5O for first
place, $3O for second, and $2O for
third.
“This is simply a favorite recipe,
not necessarily original recipe,
contest,” said Schadler. “It
There were two judges for every out and cat,” Zeck said,
category. Judges included Mike In the contest’s first year, about
Zeck, Hinkelfest chairman, and $85,000 in sales of chicken were
Laura Farrelly, Allen Family generated, noted Zeck.
Foods, Seaford, Del., who judged At the cooking contest, first
the grilled breasts and soups and place winners included Nancy
sandwiches; John Rutherford, Peiffer, Jonestown, for her soups
farm management extension and chowder entry. Chicken and
multicounty agent and Chuck Dumpling Soup. First place in the
Wertz, director of the Lebanon legs category went to Charlene
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Contest
County Conservation District, for
the remaining chicken categories*
and, for desserts, Rep. Peter Zug
(R-102nd) and Andy Andrews,
Lancaster Farming staff writer.
An item donated to the festival
also helps raise money for the
community organizations. This
year, the 1998 Hinkelfest Express
cake railroad car was donated by
Mr. and Mrs. Frank keeper, Fre
dericksburg, and sold at auction.
The yellow cake was made up like
a huge express train that featured
liquorice as the rails, the wheels
were Oreo cookies, and candy
com, sugar-coated chickens, and
chocolate-covered almonds were
the cargo.
Volunteers at the cooking con
test included Helen Reedy, Barba
ra Bauer, and Letie Schadler.
The turnout was the best ever on
the opening day of the festival,
according to some volunteers who
helped park cars.
Twelve hundred half-chickens
were barbecued. Saturday looked
to be the same, and by the time the
weekend was through, about
10,000 people were expected to
have attended the festival, noted
Mike Zeck, festival chairman.
“The food is the' ;ht of the
prepare a
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