Sisters Renew Princess Program In Dauphin County
HARRISBURG (Dauphin
Co.) Heidi and Holly Miller,
daughters of Mike and Linda
Miller, are the newly-crowned
Dauphin County Dairy Princess
and Alternate. The Miller girls
are the first to serve as dairy roy
alty since 1994 when Jayanna
Kopp finished her reign.
17-year-old Heidi was crowned
by Jayanna on Mother’s Day at
Great View Holstein Farm,
which is also where she lives. She
is a junior at Central Dauphin
High School and is president of
the Lower Dauphin 4-H Dairy
Club. She is also a member of the
Junior Holstein Club and enjoys
showing her Holsteins at local
and state shows.
Heidi’s school activities in
clude the National Honor Socie
ty, C.D. Singers, school orches
tra, choir, and school musical.
She is also church pianist at the
Devonshire Church and is very
active in the church youth group.
Heidi also is a pianist and alto
singer for a local quartet.
Heidi works part-time at the
floral department at Giant
Foods.
Alternate dairy princess is
Holly Miller, the 15-year-old
sophomore at Central Dauphin.
Terry Sheehan, executive chef for the Hershey Lodge
and Convention Center, demonstrates making fruit salsa,
a blend of lime juice, sugar, cilantro, and your choice of
chopped fruit.
JAYNE SEBRIGHT
Lancaster Farming Staff
HERSHEY (Dauphin Co.)
About 20 women who attended
the Joint Annual Convention of
the Pennsylvania Milk Dealers
We’ve all seen butterflies flut
tering about, but believe it or not,
they didn’t always have wings!
Butterflies go through four
stages in life, and it’s not until
the final stage that they actually
look like a butterfly. Adult but
terflies, such as the Monarch but
terfly as an example, overwinter
Holly serves as club photogra
pher for the Lower Dauphin 4-H
Club and is a member of the
Junior Holstein Club. She shows
both Brown Swiss and Holsteins
at dairy shows.
A member of the Chanson
Singers and the soprano singer in
a local quartet with her sister,
Holly is very involved in her
youth group at the Devonshire
Church. She works on the farm
doing daily chores.
Little Dairy Misses include
Rachel Crissinger, the 9-year-old
daughter of Karen and Kenneth
Crissinger of Gratz; Abigail Cris
singer, the 7-year-old daughter of
Karen and Kenneth; and Emily
Miller, the 6-year-old daughter of
Jeff and Cristy Miller and the
cousin of Holly and Heidi.
During the pageant, both
Heidi and Holly were asked an
impromptu question and pres
ented speeches about the dairy
industry. Both girls eluded to the
fact that they loved living on the
farm and all that farm life offers
them. They are also both very ex
cited to promote the dairy indus
try and dairy products.
Little dairy misses presented
skits, songs, and demonstrations
during the pageant, and Holly
Association and New York State
Dairy Foods, Inc., enjoyed a
demonstration and sampling ses
sion with the Hershey Lodge and
Convention Center’s executive
chef Terry Sheehan.
Where Do Butterflies Come From?
in warm areas along the Gulf of
Mexico. They return in the sum
mer to find a mate.
The butterflies then lay eggs
on the underside of leaves. You
can often spot a striped caterpil
lar crawling on milkweed plants
during late August or early Sep
tember. They hatched from the
The 2000-2001 Dauphin County dairy royalty, from left front, is Little Miss Emily
Miller, Little Miss Abigail Crissinger, Dairy Princess Heidi Miller, and Little Miss Rachel
Crissinger. From left back are Alternate Dairy Princess Holly Miller and 1003-1994 Dairy
Princess Jayanna Kopp.
and Heidi sang a duet, “Love riculture and the dairy industry Jayanna is busy preparing for a
Can Build A Bridge.” as Communications Director for wedding to be held this summer.
Jayanna gave her farewell the Pennsylvania Farm Bureau. The pageant concluded with
speech and updated everyone on She will also serve on the dairy Jayanna crowning Heidi, fol
her life. She is still promoting ag- promotion committee this year, lowed by a picnic.
Chocolate Dessert Demonstration
Featured At Milk Dealers’ Convention
The featured dessert was a
chocolate crepe with a double
cream marscapone cheese filling.
“It’s not terribly difficult to
make,” said Sheehan. “After a
big meal, this dessert is light and
delicious.”
The ingredients for the choco
late crepe are flour, milk, eggs,
oil, chocolate cocoa, powder,
sugar, and salt. After mixing all
of the dry ingredients together,
Sheehan added part of the milk.
“Always warm your milk to
room temperature before adding
it to the crepe mixture,” he said.
“The ingredients should all be at
room temperature, and cold milk
will cause the eggs to congeal.”
Add enough milk so that the
mixture is mixed evenly and
smooth. After all ingredients are
mixed, Sheehan added oil, which
he recommended should be cot
tonseed or canola oil. He also
added a little oil to the teflon pan
before he poured in the mixture.
“Only put about two ounces of
the mixture in the pan, and work
it around very quickly,” said
Sheehan, who flipped the crepe
after about 30 seconds to a min
ute in the pan. “Pour off any ex
cess mixture once the crepe
forms.”
Sheehan used orange, lime,
and lemon rind in the filling.
“Take a vegetable peeler and
peel the rind from the fruit,” said
Sheehan. “Then chop it in a food
processor.”
Sheehan also caramelized
sugar in a pan and added the
rind to the sugar, using cooking
eggs laid by adult butterflies. The
caterpillars are also called larvae
or worms. They crawl around for
awhile, eating leaves and prepar
ing for the next stage.
As the larvae finish growing,
they spin a small silk pad that is
attached to a leaf or branch.
They will hang upside down
alcohol to infuse the fruit juice in
the rind. “Don’t overcook the
rind,” said Sheehan. “Remove it
from the pan as soon as it is ten
der.”
To make the filling, Sheehan
added the syrup made from the
caramelized sugar and fruit rind
with marscapone cheese and 10X
sugar. “You can use your own
experiences and ideas to see what
flavors you like most,” he said.
He also mixed a fruit salsa
made from chopped fruit, lime
juice, sugar, and cilantro. The
dessert was garnished with a
Ladies attending the demonstration enjoyed samples
of the Chocolate Crepe with Marscapone Cheese Filling
and Fruit Salsa, which Chef Sheehan emphasized was a
light and sweet ending to a heavy meal.
from this pad and assume a J
shaped position.
The caterpillars are preparing
to molt to the pupal or chrysalis
stage and will soon begin build
ing a protective covering around
themselves. This covering, called
a chrysalis, looks a little like a
leather pouch. The chrysalis
stage begins with a caterpillar,
strawberry fan. “Always garnish
with something that is in your
recipe,” said Sheehan.
Sheehan used the dessert as an
example of how food is becoming
more practical. “It used to be
about presentation and the food
itself, with elaborate displays
that weren’t practical,” he said.
“But you have to think about
how easy it is to make 100 plates
of the dessert all at once. Also,
people want healthy foods and
normal portion sizes. Chefs who
understand these demands are
going to fare better.”
but after 10-14 days, a beautiful
butterfly will emerge.
As summer temperatures cool
into autumn, the Monarch but
terflies begin heading south to
their Mexican wintering sites.
They will spend the entire winter
here and in spring they’ll find a
mate and the process begins
again.