84-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 5, 2002 Challenge Compels Hobbyist To Compete For Farm Show Gold (Continued from Page B 2) born while her father was prepar ing entries for the fair. Her 80-year-old father still lives in the farmhouse, sprays the fruit trees, picks sweet corn for the roadside stand they operate together, and cares for several nut trees. He helps Sally take her entries to the farm show and also enters several nut categories. Growing lots of fruit and vege tables and preserving them have always been part of Sally’s life. When she married a non-farmer, it didn’t take him long to realize that home processed food tastes much better than store-pur chased. The couple’s two daugh ters are now grown and live inde pendently, but the Reinoehl’s fill three freezers with home pro cessed fruits and vegetables. They also do their own butcher ing even making scrapple and sausage. September is an especially busy month. That’s when Sally, who teaches elementary educa tion, goes back to school and when many fruits and vegetables mature. It’s also the month of local fairs. Sally enters items in TriValley, Schuylkill, and Gratz fairs. Frank often assists Sally by peeling and emptying garbage during those long hours in gar den and kitchen. It isn’t unusual for her to stay up to 1 a.m. and arise at 6 a.m. to get everything ready for local fairs. When her daughters still lived at home, they often helped their HEATING WITH CORN MAKES CENTS! 570-748-7080 LMF Manufacturing «m,. i .riK-ri t - i .si.e S .u-o.i, Irn.iil: Ini I (a ;iiiiciic;islic;il.forii mom with her entries and en tered some of their own. Daugh ter Lindsay won best of show with her gingerbread houses. Her dream is to return to Pennsylva nia so that she can enter some of her work. Lindsay said, “I remember going to the Farm Show in good and bad weather but we never missed.” When it comes to picking out gifts for her mother, it’s always been easy, Lindsay said. “She loves cookbooks.” Sally said that she spends hours researching cookbooks and seeing what’s out there. Generally she enters family fa vorites, but admits that a few times, she prepared a new recipe for entry. “After you bake so much, you can read a recipe and almost taste it,” she said. One year she used a new recipe for the chocolate cake competi tion. Unfortunately, she couldn’t remove the cake from the pans. She dug the cake out in pieces. Her husband advised her not to give up but to doctor it up. So she filled the cake’s cracks and holes with a cream cheese filling and covered it with frost ing. “Icing covers all sins,” Sally said of cake disasters. Her tenet proved true when the cake placed first at a local fair. Things don’t always turn out as well. “My goal is to do the best I can in everything,” Sally said. “If it isn’t quality work, I don’t bother the judges with it,” Sally said. She laments that too much em phasis is placed on appearance for the Hershey’s Chocolate Cake and the Blue Ribbon Apple Pie contests. Some years, it looks like a flower show rather than a cake show. Sally said, “You can have a beautiful cake, but does it taste good? I don’t care what it looks like, it’s the taste that matters.” Sally said that sometimes, she figures out what judges want, and then they change judges. Sometimes she just takes a chance. For example, she has no ticed that blueberries are the berry of choice for a gold ribbon in the berry category, but Sally is hoping her blackberries will top ple that tradition this year. She FARM FAMILIES MAKE FARM SHOW ISSUE SUCCESSFUL Farm Show has become a premier event for Lancaster Farming. 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