HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1977-08-24, Page 23Citizens News, August 24, 1977
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About people
you know
Mr. & Mrs. Morley Witmer of
Detroit, and Mr. & Mrs. Ramon
Allison and family, of Neosho,
Missouri, were recent visitors
with Mr. & Mrs. Ted Steinbach.
Mr. & Mrs. Don Gascho, Jeff
and Jane of New Jersey are
spending a weeks vacation with
their parents, Mr. & Mrs. Ed
Gascho.
Marilyn and Steven Walper
spent a few days with their
grandparents, Mr. & Mrs. Ted
Steinbach.
Miss Olive O'Brien is a patient
in South Huron Hospital.
NOTICE
Bing,., Every Tuesday
Starting
Aug. 30, 1977
8 P.M.
VANASTRA CENTRE
Send Them Back
To School
The newest styles
in children's frames
are now on display.
WHAT'S COOKING? — Need you ask? Three hundred pounds of beans go into each of two gigantic
cookers for 10 hours of cooking. Each has to be cleaned and refilled four times before all 2,400 pounds of
beans are done. Gerry Gingerich, one of the festival's founders, is keeping an eye on them. Staff photo
What do you do
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What do•you do when nine or
ten thousand people come for
dinner? Feed them home -baked
beans, ham, cole slaw and mouth-
watering homemade pies. They
will be back for more.
This is the twelfth year Zurich
has set tables in its streets for its
bean festival. Planning and
when 9,000 come to dinner?
preparations have been in
progress for months. The cooking
and baking takes a week.
Two thousand, four hundred
pounds of cleaned white navy
beans have been donated - half by
the Bean Marketing Board, half
by mills in Hensall. They are not
presoaked, but go directly into
BEAN
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IN ZURICH
SAT. AUG. 27
Pancake and Sewage Breakfast Commencing at 8 a.L.
MDME COOKED BEANS - FAMOUS STREET MARKET
Bean Queen Content
Dance In The Arena Saturday Night
"DESJARDINE ORCHESTRA"
and
"THE BL UEWA TER PLAYBOYS"
ContinuousEntertainment — Midway For Kids
two specially made cookers
holding 300 pounds apiece. Each
has to be cleaned and refilled four
times before all are cooked. The
cookers work like percolators,
pushing water up through the
beans. It takes about 10 hours to
finish each load. The. process
began Monday. By Saturday two
tons of baked beans will be ready.
The ingredients mixed with the
beans are 400 pounds of chopped
pig jowls. 500 pounds of brown
sugar, 200 gallons of catsup and
part or all of 30 cases of tomato
juice.
When the beans are cooked,
these are added, plus a quantity
of spices. They are then baked in
large steel oven -trays for about
two hours, with occasional
stirring. (The ovens have been
improvised from nine old
refrigerators turned on their
backs and fitted with electric
elements.) When baked, the
beans are cooked and.
refrigerated. Finishing touches
are added Saturday mor-
ning.Leftover beans will be sold
by the carton. They freeze well.
A ton of ham will be sliced to
serve with the beans.
Forty crates of prechopped
cabbage will be mixed with oil,
vinegar and seasoning to make
cole slaw Friday evening. This is
the first year festival workers
have not had to chop the cabbage
themselves.
The main course, just
described, .costs $2. For dessert,
there are pies of all kinds from
the kitchens of local housewives.
Pie concessions are being run by
the Roman Catholic, United and
Mennonite churches in Zurich, St.
Peter's Roman Catholic Church
at St. Joseph, Kippen Women's
Institute and the Eastern Star.
Each will produce 150 to 200 pies,
so there could be over 1,000 from
which to choose.
COME 6N
AND LOOK
THEM OVER
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important... And Can Be Arranged at
405 Main St. Exeter 235-051 1
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