October Brings The 36th National Apple Harvest Festival
BIGLERVILLE (Adams Co.)
With colorful arts and crafts,
hot “off-the-flre apple” butter,
toe-tapping country music and
hay rides, the 36th annual Na
tional Apple Harvest Festival
honors the harvest of the number
one apple-producing county in
Pennsylvania.
Name, in 1999, one of the “10
great places to...hail the fall har
vest” in the United States by
USA Today, the festival is spon
sored by The Upper Adams Jay
cees, Biglerville. It’s held daily
from 8 a.m.-6 p.m., the first two
full weekends in Oct. 7-8 and
14-15, at the South Mountain
Fairgrounds, Route 234 West of
Arendtsville.
The autumn event features
four exciting days of apple prod
ucts, food, arts and crafts and old
time farm equipment at the fair
grounds nestled in the foothills of
the South Mountains. Relax and
take a bus tour that highlights
the apple orchards that dot the
surrounding countryside.
While enjoying the splendor of
autumn’s colors, breathe in the
crisp autumn air and the spicy
aroma of simmering apple but
ter. Sample the large array of
apple products that are also
Fill Up
You can’t live on air, but Penn
State researchers have shown
that big, puffed-up food servings
can satisfy better than small,
packed-down, calorie-equivalent
portions a fact that can help
you feel full on fewer calories.
Study director Di. Barbara
Rolls, who holds the Guthrie
Chair in Nutrition in Penn
State’s College of Health and
Human Development, says,
“We’re not suggesting you try to
fill up on lots of airy foods. You
might get a stomach ache and
would probably burp a lot! But
this study does show that you
can trick your senses into believ
ing you have eaten more food by
pumping up the size of the por
tion with air.
The study is detailed in the
current issue of the American
Journal of Clinical Nutrition in a
paper, “Increasing the Volume of
a Food by Incorporating Air Af
fects Satiety in Men.” The au
thors are Rolls, Elizabeth Bell,
doctoral candidate in nutrition,
and Bethany W. Waugh, manag
er. Laboratory for the study of
Human Digestive Behavior.
The 28 lean men who partici
pated in the study ate breakfast,
lunch, and dinner one day a
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available for purchase. Apple
butter, apple cider, apple jelly,
apple sauce, apply syrup, and
candied apples are made fresh all
day long. Don’t forget to take
home some fresh Adams County
apples.
Country-style foods such as
chicken barbecue, apple sausage
or pit beef or rib eye sandwiches,
funnel cakes and other mouth
watering delicacies will be avail
able. Young and old alike will
enjoy watching the antique apple
peeler and popcorn being made
in a kettle over an open fire.
It’s entertainment without
video games and electronics.
Children use their imagination
playing in hay and can bob for
apples and enter the pie eating
contests. They can touch cats,
sheep, calves, goats and rabbits
in the petting zoo or take a hay
ride pulled by a steam engine.
Five stages of entertainment
with local and area musicians
will play bluegrass, country and
western, and rock “n roll. The
lively music helps hard-core
shoppers and browsers get
through their rounds and the
stage areas provide seating where
festival goers can sit a spell.
Strolling acts include an accordi-
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week in the laboratory for four
weeks. Thirty minutes before
lunch, they were served one of
three strawberry smoothies. The
researchers made the smoothies
with exactly the same ingredients
but mixed them for different
amount? of time in a blender.
The smoothies filled either half,
three-quarters or a full glass. The
bigger the smoothie the men con
sumed, the less they ate at lunch.
After consuming the biggest
smoothie, the men ate 12 percent
or about 100 calories less
lunch than they did when they
drank the smallest one even
though both drinks contained the
exact same ingredients and the
same number of calories. .
In her best selling book “Vol
umetries,” written with Robert
Barnett, Rolls explains that the
research points to a way to de
crease the daily amount of cal
ories you consume while still
feeling full and satisfied. Whip
ped foods, she notes, can be espe
cially useful. “You see a bigger
portion, and you get more senso
ry stimulation as you consume
it,” the authors write.
“Try whipped foods in moder
ation such as low-fat frozen des
serts. Get creative with blender
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onist, clowns, jugglers, and ap
pearances by Adams County
Apple Queen Lauren Hankey,
Gettysburg.
A major attraction the 250
arts and crafters will include
jewelry, dried flower arrange
ments, country crafts, baskets,
fabric creations, wood crafts and
paintings. Many visitors come
every year to get an early start
on their Christmas shopping.
Not to be missed, antique autos,
hit and miss engines, antique
farm equipment will beckon the
men’s attention.
Another popular area is the
make-your-own scarecrow booth
where those interested get to
build their own life-size scare
crow just in time for Halloween.
Artists will be demonstrating
and selling their products in
much the same fashion as their
counterparts of old. The art of
spinning, weaving, woodwork
ing, cooper smithing, black
smithing, moccasin making,
glass blowing, broom making
and pottery will be demonstrated
throughout the day.
Held rain or shine, the festival
is perfect for the whole family
who after a day of fun can take
home a basketful of memories
that will last a lifetime!
y Foods
drinks. Choose air-popped pop
corn; its energy density is not
low, but it takes three cups to
give you 90 calories (try it with
out butter add low-fat season
ing instead). Foods with irregular
shapes also produce a bigger vol
ume in a given portion because
they don’t pack down. Think of
flaky or puffed cereals. In other
words, think big,” they add.
“Volumetries” is full of other
suggestions, based on Roll’s re
search for decreasing calorie in
take while remaining full and
satisfied. The Penn State re
searcher explains that her
group’s research has shown that
feeling full depends on eating a
satisfying amount of food. Tiny
portions just don’t do it. The en
ergy density of food, or the ratio
of calories to the weight of food,
is what matters. Foods with a
high energy density have lots of
calories in a small serving and
are typically lower in water or air
content. For example, a
100-calorie serving of raisins, a
high-energy density food, con
tains only one-quarter cup. A
100-calorie serving of grapes, a
low-energy density, high-water
content food, contains one and
two-thirds cups.
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 30, 2000-811
For complete programming in
formation for all four days,
check out the web site at
www.appleharvest.com. Admis
sion is $6 Adults; $5 Senior Citi
zens; Children under 12 are Free.
Parking is included. Pets are not
allowed on festival grounds. For
families with young children, a
diaper changing station is avail-
Consuming
Thoughts
by
Fay Strickler
Penn State Extension Home
Economist For Berks Co.
Eating five fruits and vege
tables a day is one of the most
important choices you can make
to help maintain your health.
Many fruits and vegetables can
be eaten on the run. If you wash
them as soon as you return from
the store, you can grab them di
rectly from the fruit bowl or
crisper on your way out. Berries
and grapes are exceptions: wash
them the day you eat them.
With today’s busy lifestyles,
you may want to take advantage
of precut, cleaned and packaged
fresh fruit and vegetables.
Trimmed and cleaned spinach
leaves and shredded cabbage are
available in supermarkets. Just
open the bag and you have the
making of a salad or stirfry.
Wash and cut yp carrots, celery,
zucchini, and jicama and keep
them ready to eat in the refriger
ator. Your vegetable sticks can be
kept fresh for days by keeping
them wrapped in plastic.
Drinking fruit juice can be as
easy as grabbing a can of soda.
Try individual servings of 100
percent fruit juice such as
orange, pineapple and grapefruit.
Keep assorted dried fruits in the
glove compartment for a quick
snack anytime. Prunes, raisins,
dates and dried apricots, peaches
and pears are some suggestions.
If you are looking for foods to
fit into your busy lifestyle consid
er:
• an apple in your car
• dried fruit in your desk
• frozen fruits and vegetables
• a carrot in your briefcase
• fruit canned in juice in your
pantry
• supermarket salad bars
• a can or bottle of chilled
fruit juice
We often hear the saying, “An
apple a day keeps the doctor
away.”
It is important to include
apples in your diet and research
indicates that apples may actual
ly help reduce serum cholesterol,
high blood pressure and the risk
of colon cancer, diverticular dis-
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For more information, write
The National Apple Harvest Fes
tival, P.O. Box 38, Biglerville, PA
17307, call 717-677-9413, fax
717-677-4961, E-mail; applehar
vest@cvn.net, or the Gettysburg
Convention and Visitors Bureau,
3S Carlisle Street, Gettysburg,
PA 17325,717-334-6274.
ease, and strokes. The soluble
fiber called pectin in apples has a
lowering effect on LDL (so-called
“bad”) cholesterol without affec
ting HDL (“good”) cholesterol.
Insoluble fiber in apples called
cellulose helps guard against
colon cancer, constipation, and
chronic diverticular disease.
Apples have almost no fat and
are very low in sodium and a
good source of potassium, which
can help control high blood pres
sure and reduce the risk of
strokes. One apple also supplies
15 percent of the vitamin C
needed daily along with small
amounts of calcium, iron, mag
nesium, phosphorus iron, vita
min Aand thiamin.
Here is a quick and easy way
to prepare apples in the micro
wave for your family.
APPLE PANCAKE
2 tablespoons butter or marga
rine
1 tablespoon sugar
VA teaspoon cinnamon
dash nutmeg
2 apples, cored, peeled and
sliced
2 eggs, separated
3 tablespoons flour
'A teaspoon baking powder
3 tablespoons milk
1 tablespoon sugar
In a 10-inch glass pie plate,
microwave butter on high 30 sec
onds to melt. Add one tablespoon
sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg and
apples. Toss and stir well; ar
range apples in single layer in the
dish. Microwave on high two
minutes. Separate eggs. To yolks
add flour, baking powder, and
milk; beat well. Beat egg whites
separately with one tablespoon
sugar until soft peaks form. Fold
into egg yolk mixture. Spread
butter over apple slices.
Microwave on high three and
one-half to four minutes, or until
egg mixture is just set. Place flat
plate over pie plate, turn over
and lift off. Serve with sour
cream or whipped cream. Serves
two.
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