84-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, January 5, 2002
Challenge Compels Hobbyist To Compete For Farm Show Gold
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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
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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.
The Farm Show issue, scheduled Jan. 5, will feature an event
schedule, exhibit maps, the annual FFA Keystone Degree recipient
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picked huge blackberries, sorted
through a whole bucket to find
uniform ones, and canned them.
The canned blackberries appear
perfect with no bubbles in the jar
and the liquid completely covers
them.
“I hope to win, but you never
know,” she conceded.
The school faculty is always
eager to sample Sally’s entries.
She always encourages her stu
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and builds their self-esteem,”
Sally said.
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