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Susquehanna Times |
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Box 75-A, R.D.#1, Marietta, PA 17547
Published weekly on Wednesdays
[52 issues per year]
Telephone: [717] 426-2212 or 653-8383
Publisher—Nancy H. Bromer
Editor—Diane L. Krantz
Advertising Manager—Kay Kauffman
Marietta Editor—Hazel Baker
Mount Joy Editor—Cherie Dillow
Vol. 80, No. 2, January 9, 1980
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Entered at the Post Office in Marietta, PA, as
second class mail under the Act of March 3, 1879
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[Outside Lancaster County—$6.50/year]
January 9, 1980
Robert and Sylvia Herr lick their lips as they look at their gingerbread house
Looking for a new twist in your baking? Robert
and Sylvia Herr “build” a gingerbread house
Robert and Sylvia Herr of
Maytown made this New
Year’s holiday very special
for their children and their
friends. They created a
large, edible gingerbread
house to be used as a center
piece for their annual New
Year’s Eve Party.
“I wanted to do some-
thing special for the children
this year,”’ Mrs. Herr told
us. ‘“We planned to have
the children help make the
house, but it takes quite a
bit of patience, and in the
end my husband and I did
most of the work.”’
The four Herr children—
Jason, 12, Stephen, 11,
Sabrena, 10 and Faith, 5—
did get to taste some of the
gingerbread before it was a
completed house. Mrs. Herr
made extra animals and
trees so that the children
would have something to
munch on. “‘I knew if I
didn’t that they would just
beg to eat the house right
away. After all the work that
was put into it, I wanted it to
last at least one day!"”’
Mrs. Herr got the idea of
the house from several
magazines, but the design
and pattern of her house is
unique. ‘‘We added where
we thought we should. I
didn’t follow a set pattern
for the house."’
In addition to ginger-
bread, the house is de-
corated with M&Ms, hard
candies, a Vanilla Wafer
roof, a caramel chimney and
even hard candies used as
stained-glass windows. ‘‘I
did the morter work on the
chimney,’”” Mr. Herr tells
“he Herr’s planned to eat
their house on New Year's
Eve. ‘‘Faith wants to save it
for show and tell at Kinder-
garten, but I don’t think it
will last long enough,’’ Mrs.
Herr laughs.
Each New Year's Eve the
Herr family and their guests
gather up musical instru-
ments and noise makers and
go into the street in front of
their home at midnight.
“It’s sort of a tradition."’
Will the gingerbread
house become a tradition as
well. ‘We'll see about
that,”’ Mrs. Herr says.
For anyone interested in
attempting to make a similar
house, Mrs. Herr was good
enough to give us her recipe
for the gingerbread and the
icing that holds the whole
thing together. They follow.
Gingerbread Dough
4 cups sifted flour
2 tablespoons sugar
2 teaspoons ginger
| teaspoon baking powder
2 teaspoon baking sada
pinch salt
1 cup syrup
2 cup butter
Ya cup milk
Combine first six ingredi-
ents in a large bowl. On
stove, bring to boil syrup
and butter, then add milk.
Add this mixture to the dry
ingredients and stir until
smooth. Wrap in aluminum
foil and chill overnight.
Snow Frosting
3 egg whites (at room temp-
erature)
1 pound confectioners sugar
2 teaspoon cream of tartar
Friendship Force to offer Lancaster exchange;
visit or host someone from another country
A public meeting for all
persons in the county
interested in taking part in
an exchange program be-
tween Lancaster and an
unnamed foreign city will be
held at 2 pm Saturday,
January 12, at the Good N’
Plenty Restaurant, Smoke-
town.
Friendship Force, a non-
profit, non-government or-
ganization which has be-
come the largest exchange
program in the world, is
sponsoring the meeting.
Anyone considering eith-
er going to another country
or serving as host here will
have the opportunity to hear
about the exchange and fill
out an application. No
applications have yet been
accepted, so that all those
received at the meeting will
have equal consideration.
A total of 254 persons
from Lancaster County will
board a plane at Harrisburg
International Airport in
May, travel to a foreign land
and remain there eight
days. The same plane will
bring an equal number of
citizens from that country to
Lancaster County for a
similar visit. The first four
days of the stay will be spent
with a host family; the last
four may be spent with
another host family, or be
used for travel. The entire
trip will occupy ten days,
two being reserved for plane
travel.
The January 12 meeting
will be a no-food-served
session for information and
sign-up, with no money
changing hands until appli-
cations are accepted. A
meeting for ‘‘ambassadors’’
and hosts will be held in
February.
Eugene R. Witmer is
Lancaster exchange director
for Friendship Force. He
has established an office at
170 East Brook Road,
Smoketown, on the second
floor of Mill Stream Motor
Lodge. Information is avail-
able there or by phone at
291-9763.
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