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Newspaper
Lancaster Farming
Location
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1956
Page
10
Instructions outline a strawberry dessert or cooling mixture using berries sugar lemon juice and whipped cream. The method mentions dissolving gelatin in water with salt and hot water then mixing in crushed strawberries and lemon juice before chilling and serving.
Twenty-one mothers and 20 Society of Farm Women 23 members attended a Mother and Daughter banquet at Mrs. John H. Herr Jr.s home in Muil Jersville. Devotions were led by Mrs Enos Newcomer, roll call featured a memory prompt, and Mr and Mrs. Milton Eberly presented slides from their South America trip. Each mother received a plant as a token from the group.
Six hundred chickens will be required for the Lititz Fire Company chicken corn soup supper tomorrow night during the county convention. Ladies Auxiliary cleaned chickens Tuesday and Wednesday for the event. A parade at 2 pm is scheduled with prizes themed on historical firefighting equipment.
Reader Lena Brubaker notes a missing cup of butter in a sugar cookie recipe. The corrected method includes two eggs, two cups sugar, one cup butter, one cup sour cream, vanilla, soda, salt, five cups flour, overnight chilling, and baking at 375 degrees F for about five dozen cookies.
Farm Women No 15 met at the home of Mrs Almus Shoemaker in Bartville. Mrs Robert Weichsel presided and devotions were led by Mrs Shoemaker. The Youth Recreation committee will sponsor a Solanco High School band concert on June 6 in the Solanco gym to raise funds for junior band uniforms. The group urged a protest to the Joint School Board over the new Solanco High School site in Quarryville. They also voted to donate to send a Southern Lancaster County child to East Seal Camp for crippled children and to aid the Crippled Children's Association in Lancaster.
Franz-Georg Grevel, a German exchange student, receives his diploma at a Quarryville Methodist Church commencement ceremony. Supervising Principal Harry K Gerlach presents the diploma as Ike travels to Oregon for a national Church of the Brethren meeting arranged by his hosts, the Kreiders.
Violet Preston of 553 Chestnut Coatesville asks for a Crochet chair set pattern, preferably the Four-Leaf Clover. She would return the pattern after use and invites more reader mail for the column.
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