Salt Magazine: September 2016

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A supplement of The Lima News
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Touring
Amish Country
Bidding
for broccoli
Minster Oktoberfest:
Beers, brats
and brotherhood
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Beer, brats & brotherhood:
Minster hosts Oktoberfest
Take a tour of Hardin
County’s Amish Country
Bidding
for broccoli
In the kitchen with
... a fair exhibitor
Out and
About
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Publisher’s note
By Pamela Stricker
Recipe Index
Barbara Yoder’s Zucchini Bars ....................................................16
Cabbage Rolls ..............................................................................12
Cashew-Butter Leaves.................................................................23
Easy Beer Bread ...........................................................................23
German Oatmeal Cake ...............................................................12
German Sauerbraten...................................................................10
German-Styled Green Beans .....................................................12
Monster Cookies ..........................................................................23
Potato Dumplings .........................................................................10
Wainachsrollen .............................................................................12
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These pints of
cherry and grape
tomatoes were
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Hardin County.
Photo by Amanda
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What food do you love
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Doesn’t apply
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would you win and
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Sweet or unsweetened
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That place called
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By Pamela Stricker
In this season of
summer vacations,
family reunions,
weekend getaways —
however you may be
spending your time
away — one thing
that seems to always
accompany the
return to home base
is that satisfied sigh
of relief that echoes
Dorothy’s sentiments
from “The Wizard of
Oz” film: “There’s
no place like home.”
Vacation can be
revitalizing and
necessary to good
soul health. However, we often exert
a lot of energy
preparing for that
coveted time away.
We work ahead
on projects at
home and work,
cramming in more
tasks than usual.
Then there is
packing, figuring
out itineraries,
arrangements for the animals,
the mail, the paper. Then, once
on vacation, we try to squeeze
out everything we can every
day for all it’s worth, knowing
the vacation is going to be over
way before we want it to be.
But no matter how exotic the
beach, how grand the mountains or how precious the time
with family and friends, there is
something so comforting and
stabilizing and relieving about
returning home.
I suppose much of that depends on how much one cares
about their home — and what
home means to each of us.
For me, it’s a place of shelter,
not only from the rain, but the
storms that life can hurl at us.
Home is refuge, solace, a place
of rest… my sanctuary. It takes
some caretaking for home to be
that safe and sought-after place.
I have lived in homes with
grass mat floors and dirt floors.
My homes have been in foreign
lands, other states. They have
been in rural America and even
the largest city in the world.
My homes have included living in a converted church, an
adobe house with no modern
conveniences, a Quonset hut, a
basement apartment and, most
recently, a condo on the second
floor of an old Victorian house.
But the structure has very
little to do with my sense of
“home.” Home, my place of
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my place to be accepted and
loved. Home is more about
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I know I am called to be and
being content to be there.
It’s good to experience trav-
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to other places. I love to do that!
But there is something very
calming about returning to the
rhythm of routine, of settling in
to what may seem mundane in
comparison. It’s good to be with
the familiarity of home. It’s just
good to be home.
These lines from a song
written by Linford Detweiler
and Karin Bergquist of Over the
Rhine articulates it so well. The
song is “Called Home.”
Just shy of Breakin’ Down
There’s a bend in the road
that I have found
Called home
Take a left at loneliness
There’s a place to find forgiveness
Called home
With clouds adrift across the
sky
Like
heaven’s laundry hung to dry
You slowly feel it all will be
revealed
Where evening shadows
come to fall
On the awful and the beautiful
Every wound you feel that
needs to heal
And silence yearns to hear
herself
Some long lost memory
rings a bell
Called home
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she launched in southern
Ohio in 2009. She also
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Civitas Media. She and her
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Lima, Ohio.
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BEER, BRATS & BROTHERHOOD
Minster celebrates German heritage with annual Oktoberfest
By Amy Eddings
6 | Salt | Northwest Ohio | September 2016
The 42nd Annual
Minster Oktoberfest
Friday, Sept. 30 - Sunday, Oct. 2
Friday
6-10 p.m. — Arts and crafts open
Saturday
10 a.m. — Little Miss Oktoberfest Contest, Knights of Columbus
Hall, 40 N. Main St.
Noon — Opening ceremonites,
gazebo
1 p.m. — Miss Oktoberfest Contest,
Spass Platz
2 p.m. — Beer tray relays,
Fourth Street
Sunday
9:30 a.m. — Oktoberfest 10K run, Minster High School start,
100 E. Seventh St.
2 p.m. — Minster Oktoberfest parade
8 p.m. — Stands close
Minster’s annual Oktoberfest is a tourist attraction for many,
with visitors traveling from across Ohio and from neighboring
Indiana and Michigan for the beer, the bratwursts and the traditional oom-pah music. For Minsterites, it’s a big, public reunion.
“It’s a homecoming for families,” said Mary Oldiges, who
runs the Minster Historical Society and whose husband, Gary,
helped found the event in 1975.
Oldiges, 69, was sitting at her desk at the historical society
at 112 W. Fourth St. Above her, resting on top of a wooden card
catalog, were framed photos of the Woehrmyers, her father’s
clan. She’s also related to the Ritters, the Bergmans and the
Kovermans. The Mass cards from many of these relatives’
funerals in this deeply Roman Catholic community are among
the 25,000 that fill the catalog.
“Today, including our grandchildren, who reside in Minster,
and our sons, we are seventh generation Minsterites,” she said.
This little rural town of 2,829, she said, “feels like home.”
Minster was originally known as Stallostown, the brainchild
of Franz Joseph Stallo, a native of Damme, a village in Lower
Saxony in the northwest of Germany. Stallo was smitten with
America. A schoolteacher, bookbinder and printer, he circulated a poem extolling the new country’s freedoms and beauties
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America in 1830. He settled in Cincinnati and began scouting
for farmland along the Miami-Erie Canal, a waterway that was
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His enthusiasm did not wane with
the realities of what was then frontier
life. He continued his public relations
campaign for Ohio and America.
“He sent letters telling them, ‘Come!
It’s the land of milk and honey!’” said
Oldiges. “And they came!”
She said it was one of the largest
chain migrations in U.S. history, with
families who had immigrated helping,
in turn, their siblings, cousins, parents,
grandparents and neighbors make the
journey and find their footing.
“By the time it was done, in the
1860s-70s, a lot of these little communities in Germany, half of them were
gone, they had immigrated,” said Oldiges. “They brought their neighbors,
their brothers, their sisters, their nieces,
their nephews. And wasn’t that a great
idea because, with all of that, perhaps
they weren’t as homesick.”
She praised that community spirit
of kinship and mutual support that
brought not only Minster into being,
but raised up, out of the Ohio wilderness, the German-American towns of
New Bremen, New Knoxville and Maria
Stein.
“I firmly believe that’s why these
little communities were so successful,”
she said. “You bring enough people
with you who know you and love you
and share your interests and likes and
similarities. That’s how they survived.
They all knew each other, they were all
willing to help.”
They brought their language, Low
German, a combination of German
and Dutch. They brought their customs,
which Oldiges said included a strong
work ethic and an emphasis on order
and neatness.
“We get a lotta visitors from out of
town, they say, ‘My God, what a clean
little town!’” she said.
They brought their culture. The Minster Historical Society’s glass cases are
filled with hand-carved wooden shoes
and images of the humble farmer’s
footwear dot the interior of The Wooden Shoe Inn, the 83-year-old restaurant
at the center of town at Fourth and
Main streets. Floats in the Oktoberfest’s
annual Sunday parade carry windmills
and celebrants dressed in traditional
dirndls, lacy aprons, knee-length bundhosen slacks and felt hats.
Those early Minsterites brought
their food, of course, including pretzels,
cabbage rolls, wursts, spatzel, kuchen
and strudel. Many of these traditional
foods are sold at the Oktoberfest by
the three dozen community groups that
participate in, and benefit from, the
festival. The 40th annual Oktoberfest
in 2014 netted nearly $1 million, said
From left, Daryn Straley, of Athens, Ryan Loyd, of Lafayette, Indiana, and Kathy Straley
drink beer and take a break from the chilly weather during a recent Oktoberfest.
Photos by Amanda Wilson
and Luke Gronneberg
“You bring
enough people
with you who
know you and
love you and
share your
interests and
likes and
similarities.
That’s how they
survived.”
— Mary Oldiges,
Minster Historical
Society
Jay Roellgen, of Tupelo, Mississippi, sat in a chair four hours to have his beard
dyed the colors of the German flag during a recent Oktoberfest. Roellgen
brought his mom, Dorothy Roellgen, with him so she could visit with family
that still lives in the Minster area.
Salt | Northwest Ohio | September 2016 | 9
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Oldiges.
And they brought beer, the beverage
that has defined Oktoberfest since the
first one in 1810 in the southern German
city of Munich to celebrate the marriage
of Prince Ludwig of Bavaria to Princess
Therese of Saxony-Hildberghausen. Two
small breweries were in operation by
1869, and one of them, the Star Brewing
Co., later known as the Wooden Shoe
Brewing Co., lasted until 1953. A recent
attempt to relaunch the Wooden Shoe
brewery failed in 2012.
No matter. There will be plenty of
beer on tap at the Oktoberfest, including major brands like Budweiser and
Samuel Adams, as well as smaller craft
brews.
But the food, the floats, the beer tray
relay race and the mug hoisting contest,
the tuba and accordion-flavored oompah music, is not what makes Oktoberfest a special time for lifelong Minsterite
Oldiges. It’s the way the community
pools its talents and resources to host
it, year after year. It’s the way families
reconvene around it.
“If you don’t know where you came
from, how are you going to know where
you’re going?” she said. “It’s so impor-
Adults and children alike enjoy dancing to the German polka band Sorgenbrecher at the gazebo during
a recent Oktoberfest.
tant to go back and reflect and say, ‘Hey,
they figured it out. They did it and they
worked together and they succeeded.’
In today’s society, you still have to basically do it the same way, if you want to
get it accomplished.”
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Recipes from ‘Minster’s Heart & Heritage Cookbook’
GERMAN SAUERBRATEN
(PICKLED BEEF POT ROAST)
Start to finish: 53 hours (1 1/2 hours active)
Servings: 14
Ingredients:
2 teaspoons salt
1 teaspoon ground ginger
One 4-pound top round roast
2 1/2 cups water
2 cups apple cider vinegar
2 medium onions, sliced
1/3 cup sugar
2 tablespoons pickling spice
1 teaspoon whole peppercorns
8 whole cloves
2 bay leaves
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
14 gingersnap cookies, crushed
Directions:
Combine salt and ginger; rub over roast.
Place the roast in a deep glass bowl. In a
saucepan, combine water, vinegar, onions,
sugar, pickling spices, peppercorns, cloves
and bay leaves; bring to a boil. Pour over
roast; turn to coat. Cover and refrigerate for
2 days, turning twice a day.
Remove roast, reserving marinade. Pat
roast dry.
In a large kettle or Dutch oven, brown
roast on all sides in oil over medium-high
heat. Strain marinade, reserving half of
the onions and seasonings and discarding
the rest. Pour 1 cup of the marinade and
reserved onions and seasonings over roast
(cover and refrigerate remaining marinade
liquid). Bring the mixture to a boil. Reduce
heat; cover and simmer for 3 hours or until
meat is tender.
Strain cooking liquid, discarding the
onions and seasonings. Measure liquid; if
necessary, add enough reserved marinade
to equal 3 cups. Pour into a saucepan; bring
to a rolling boil. Add gingersnaps; simmer
until gravy is thickened. Slice roast and
serve with gravy.
[Adapted from a recipe from Ronnie
(Brennan) Raible.]
POTATO DUMPLINGS
Start to finish: 4 hours (2 hours active)
Servings: 10
Ingredients:
3 pounds russet potatoes
2 eggs
1 cup all-purpose flour, divided
1/2 cup dry bread crumbs
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
Dash pepper
Minced fresh parsley for garnish
Directions:
Place the potatoes in a saucepan and
cover with water; bring to a boil. Reduce
heat; cover and simmer for 30 to 35 minutes
or until tender. Drain well. Refrigerate for 2
hours or overnight.
Peel and grate the cooked and cooled
potatoes. In a bowl, combine the eggs, 3/4
cup flour, bread crumbs, salt, nutmeg and
pepper. Add grated potatoes; mix with
hands until well-blended. Shape into 1 1/2inch balls; roll in remaining 1/4 cup flour.
In large kettle, bring salted water to a
boil. Add the dumplings, a few at a time, to
boiling water. Simmer, uncovered, until the
dumplings rise to the top; cook 2 minutes
longer. Remove dumplings with a slotted
spoon to a serving bowl. Sprinkle with
parsley, if desired.
[Adapted from a recipe from Ronnie
(Brennan) Raible.]
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3 bacon strips, diced
1 medium onion, quartered and sliced
2 teaspoons cornstarch
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon ground mustard
1/2 cup water
1 tablespoon brown sugar
1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar
Directions:
Place beans in saucepan and cover with
water; bring to a boil. Cook, uncovered, for
8-10 minutes or until crisp-tender. Drain
and set aside.
In a skillet, cook bacon over medium
heat until crisp. Remove to paper towels to
drain, reserving 1 tablespoon of drippings
in the skillet. In the same skillet, sauté
onion in drippings about 5 minutes until
tender.
In a small saucepan, combine the cornstarch, salt, ground mustard and water until
smooth. Stir into onion mixture. Bring to a
boil; cook and stir for 1-2 minutes or until
thickened. Stir in brown sugar and vinegar.
Add the beans; heat through. Sprinkle with
bacon bits.
[Adapted from a recipe from Mary
(Woehrmyer) Oldiges.]
CABBAGE ROLLS
Start to finish: 7 hours (1 active)
Servings: 36
Ingredients:
1 head cabbage, leaves pulled off of it
1 1/2 pounds fresh sausage
1 1/2 pounds ground chuck
3/4 cups instant white rice (uncooked)
1 medium onion, minced
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon pepper
Two 6-ounce cans tomato paste
One 15-ounce can tomato sauce
One 15-ounce can sauerkraut
Directions:
Preheat oven to 275 F.
Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil
and blanch the cabbage leaves until just
wilted, about 2 minutes; set aside on paper
towels or in a colander to drain and cool.
In a large bowl, mix together by hand
the sausage, ground chuck, rice, onion,
salt and pepper. Place a cabbage leaf on
a work surface and place 2 or 3 heaping
tablespoons of the meat mixture into the
center of each leaf; roll up into a cylinder.
Place in a 9-by-11-inch glass baking dish
and set aside.
In a bowl, stir together the tomato paste
and tomato sauce; spoon over cabbage
rolls. Add enough water to cover the rolls;
top with sauerkraut. Bake for 6 hours.
[Adapted from a recipe from Mary
(Woehrmyer) Oldiges.]
GERMAN OATMEAL CAKE
Start to finish: 1 1/2 hours
(40 minutes active)
Serves: 12
Cake Ingredients:
1 cup quick oats
1 cup boiling water
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup granulated sugar
1 stick (8 tablespoons) butter
1 1/2 cups flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon cinnamon
2 eggs
1 cup raisins
Topping Ingredients:
3/4 cup plus 1 tablespoon brown sugar
4 tablespoons heavy cream
6 tablespoons melted butter
1 cup sweetened coconut or chopped
walnuts
Cake Directions:
Preheat over to 350 F.
Grease and flour a 9-by-13-inch glass
baking dish.
In a bowl, combine the oats and boiling
water; set aside for 10 minutes.
In a small bowl, whisk together the flour,
salt, baking soda and cinnamon; set
aside.
In a standing mixer, cream together
brown sugar, granulated sugar and butter
until light and fluffy, about 5 minutes. Add
the dry ingredients and mix together until
incorporated. Add soaked oats. Beat in
eggs and raisins. Pour mixture into prepared baking dish. Bake for 30 minutes. Let
cool completely before adding the topping.
Topping Directions:
For the topping, in a small bowl, stir the
brown sugar, cream, butter and coconut or
nuts until combined. Spread on the cooled
cake; place under broiler for 5 minutes or
until brown sugar begins to bubble and
coconut or nuts are evenly browned.
[Adapted from a recipe from Dorothy
(Boerger) Wolf.]
WAINACHSROLLEN
Start to finish: 24 hours (30 minutes active)
Makes: 24 cookies
Ingredients:
4 1/2 cups flour
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
2 sticks butter (1 cup), melted
1 cup lard, melted
1 cup granulated sugar
1 cup brown sugar, packed
3 eggs
8 ounces sliced almonds
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 F.
In a small bowl, whisk together flour,
soda, salt and cinnamon; set aside.
In a large bowl, stir together butter, lard,
brown sugar, granulated sugar and eggs;
blend well. Stir in dry ingredients and almonds. Divide the dough in half. Roll each
portion of dough into 2 logs, about 2 1/2
inches in diameter; wrap in plastic wrap or
waxed paper and refrigerate overnight.
Slice chilled dough into 1/4-inch-thick
rounds. You may also use a cookie stamp,
mold or press on the chilled dough. Bake
for 8-10 minutes. Remove and place on
cookie racks until cool.
[Adapted from a recipe from Ronnie
(Brennan) Raible.]
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head east on County Road 144.
On the left, at 18701 County
Road 144 (2), is Calvin and
Esther Beechy’s farm. Esther
Beechy was in an outbuilding,
applying a fresh coat of black
paint to a buggy, when I drove
up. She had maple syrup, a quilt
and eggs for sale, $3 a dozen,
from 75 layers that are fed nonGMO corn.
“It’s healthier,” she said. She
was awash in eggs. “Right now,
you can buy one, get one free.”
Less than 500 feet down the
road, at 18948 County Road 144
(3), Amos and Barbara Miller
and their Scioto Valley Green
House sell tomatoes for eating
fresh or canning, zucchini, fresh
peas, candy onions, melons,
strawberries and flowers.
I asked about the sweet peas.
“They’re done,” she said,
glancing in the direction of
the road where a sign stating
“sweet peas” still hung, swinging in the breeze. “Guess I
should take the sign down.”
Continue east on County
Road 144 a short distance,
turning left onto Township Road
209. On the left, at 13165 Township Road 209 (4), is Willow
Ridge Rustics, where Nelson
Hochstetler makes hand-hewn
cedar log and knotty pine
benches, cabinets, night stands,
bar stools, Adirondack chairs,
porches and railings.
He’s been making bed
frames for a campground in
Holmes County.
“The guy found similar beds,
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$2,999,” said Hochstetler with a
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By Amy Eddings
When I first heard of a produce auction, I
couldn’t wrap my head around it. I couldn’t
picture a group of people standing around
and bidding on a bushel of peaches or
two heads of cauliflower. It challenged my
perception of what it meant to go grocery
shopping.
And yet that’s exactly what happens
at the Scioto Valley Produce Auction on
County Road 200 near Mount Victory,
about a quarter mile east of state Route 31,
in Hardin County’s Old Order Amish community. Look for the big, white barn with
the horses and buggies tied up in front,
near the road.
“I came here last fall and had an absolute ball,” said Kathy Chapman, 58, of
Marysville. She came for the pumpkin auction that takes place in September.
“I am embarrassed to tell you what I
got,” she said, laughing. “I bought, like, a
4x8 foot bin of 50 pumpkins.” Her winning
bid was $150, or $3 a piece. “I gave some
to my grandchildren!”
A few feet away, the auction of that
week’s haul of produce was underway.
Most of the produce is from local Amish
farmers, and, at this time of year in midJune, featured snap peas, broccoli, beans,
“I am embarrassed
to tell you what I
got. I bought, like,
a 4x8 foot bin of 50
pumpkins.”
— Kathy Chapman, buyer
at Scioto Valley Produce
Auction
candy onions, radishes and flowers.
“Thirty-five, we got two quarts of snap
peas!” said the Amish auction assistant,
reading off the seller’s number and a written description of the item from a yellow
tag dangling from the snap peas’ container.
He picked up the quarts of snap peas from
a pallet on the floor and held them aloft for
the buyers to see.
“Two quarts of snap peas,” echoed the
non-Amish auctioneer. His voice came
over a small amplifier from above the
crowd, where he was sitting at a desk on a
rolling platform that was about eight feet
high. From this vantage point he could see
all the buyers, see them nod or hold up a
finger signaling their assent to his asking
price.
He launched into his sales patter, a quick
rat-a-tat-tat of numbers. “Fifty, now 50, who
has 75?”
Within seconds he pronounced the snap
peas sold, for $1, to No. 709.
Two small bags of kohlrabi sold for
$1.25. Two heads of cauliflower go for 75
cents. Buyer No. 1104 snapped up two
bunches of candy green onions for $1.75.
“The first half hour of produce, it’s all
small lots,” explained Harley Hochstetler,
the general manager of the auction. “Two
pecks, two quarters, two hand baskets, all
two.”
Bigger lots of fruits and vegetables are
also sold at the auction, drawing not only
those interested in canning and preserving but buyers from local supermarkets in
Kenton and Lima.
“It’ll be a lot more interesting when you
see it in another month,” said Hochstetler,
nodding past the window of the auction
barn’s office, where we’re talking, and toward the broad, open cement floor where
the bidding is taking place. “We’ll be
stacked full with three tons of sweet corn
and zucchini. They come in the half bushel
or on a pallet. Then we like the bigger
buyers.”
He looked at me, scribbling rapidly in
my reporter’s notebook.
“Get a bigger buyer out of Lima, send
them down here!” he said. He was only half
kidding.
Hochstetler said he and four others
launched the produce auction in 2012 at
the request of other members of the local
Amish farming community as a way of providing job opportunities for Amish youth.
“We used to be able to buy farmland
for $3,000 an acre. Now it’s $7,000 an acre.
That’s tough for a young guy to afford,” he
said. “We couldn’t afford the bigger farms
anymore, so we had to buy the smaller
farms and raise produce for the kids to
have work.”
By raising produce like tomatoes, sweet
corn, peas, zucchini and black raspberries,
Amish families are able to get more value
out of their small farms. He said about 70
farms participate in the auction on any
given Tuesday or Friday. About 40 of them,
he said, are raising produce specifically to
sell here, as their means of making a living.
“We got one guy over here” — he
gestures in the general direction of County
Road 200, which is lined with Amish farms
— “he’s only got five acres. But he’s got
that jammed full of produce. He’s one of
our biggest growers.”
Interview over, I asked Hochstetler for
a bidding number. He wrote down my
name, address and telephone number, and
handed me a white ticket with “427” written in black marker on the top.
Telephone number? The Old Order
Amish don’t use telephones. Too fancy.
But Hochstetler said if I were to leave the
auction house and forget to pick up the
products I successfully bid upon, a nonAmish assistant would give me a ring to let
me know.
“If I need to talk to YOU about something,
how would I do that?” I asked Hochstetler.
“Just come over to your farm?”
He looked at me for a long moment,
watching me wrap my thoughts around a
life structured solely around face-to-face
interactions. No cell phones, Skype, text
messages or e-mails.
“Yes,” he said, with a little smile.
I head over to where other bidders are
clustered around the Amish man who’s
working down a line of bedding and potted flowers. The auctioneer watches from
above, sitting atop his mobile platform.
I’ve got my eye on two hanging baskets
of white begonias, their creamy, double
blooms spilling over the edge of the
planter. When the little group reaches
them, the auctioneer starts the bidding at
$10 each. No one raises an eyebrow or a
finger or a ticket, and he quickly drops the
price. I raise my ticket when I hear $7, and
no one responds when the auctioneer asks
for more.
“SOLD, No. 427, for $7 each,” he said. I
grinned, knowing my local garden center
would have a price tag of at least $15 on
these beauties.
The Amish man who’s acting as the produce emcee scribbled down my number
on the ticket attached to the begonias and
moved on to the next item, two flats of
white bedding petunias. I followed along,
bidding on flowers and veggies, winning
some bids, dropping out of others when
the price goes higher than I was willing to
spend.
At the end of the auction, I headed to the
office window and handed my ticket to a
white-bonneted young Amish girl dressed
in a dark blue cotton dress. She took several tickets out of a little box labeled “427.”
They were “receipts” from my purchases.
She totaled them up and handed me a bill,
just like how any auction works. Cash or
check only. No credit cards, as they require
electronic machinery and more technology
than the Old Order Amish’s religious principles of simplicity and humility allow.
I loaded up the car, wishing I had
brought our pickup truck instead.
Photos by Amanda Wilson
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AUCTION TIPS
1. Inspect the merchandise. Take a few minutes
to walk the auction house’s floor and inspect the items
for sale. Get a sense of what’s available and what condition it’s in.
2. Set a limit. Decide on how much you’re willing to
spend for each item. Once the auction starts, it’s easy to
get carried away.
3. Hold ‘em high. Make the auctioneer aware of
your bid by holding up your hand or your bid card. Call
out, if you’re in the back of a crowd, or move closer to
the auctioneer so he or she sees you.
4. Settle up. The Scioto Valley Produce Auction only
accepts cash or checks. Always confirm the preferred
method of payment before going to any auction.
5. Bring bags. The auction house doesn’t provide
them. Larger lots of produce will come in baskets or
boxes, but smaller items come in quart containers and
even plastic storage bags. You will need a shopping
bag to collect them.
IF YOU GO
WHAT: Scioto Valley Produce Auction
WHERE: 18715 County Road 200, Mt. Victory
WHEN: Tuesdays and Fridays through Oct. 7, starting
at 1 p.m. After Oct. 7, produce auctions are held on the
remaining Fridays in October. Auction is usually over by
3 p.m.
NOTEWORTHY: Pumpkin Auction, Friday, Sept. 23, 1
p.m.
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By Adrienne McGee Sterrett
Specific directions to the
Boughans aren’t really necessary. Just be on the lookout for
the old brick schoolhouse they
converted into their home in
1995.
Once inside, it all comes
into focus. Of course Tammy
Boughan’s kitchen would have
touches a baker would love — a
vintage cake carrier, a rack of
antique rolling pins, a collection
of clear glass cake stands on
display.
Tammy Boughan’s name
is familiar to anyone who has
visited the baked goods area of
the Allen County Fair, as would
be plenty of other names. She is
but one of many who enjoy entering the open class contests,
competing against each other
for everything from top sugar
cookie to casserole. She may
enter some items this year at
the fair — Aug. 19 to 27 — but
she is playing her cards close
to her chest in the style of a true
fair exhibitor.
Not bad for a person who A)
isn’t from here and B) doesn’t
recall ever going to her home
fair when she was growing up.
She is from Middletown,
between Cincinnati and Dayton.
She and her now-husband, Troy,
met while working in Columbus
at the statehouse. He’s from the
Lafayette area and wanted to
come home to raise his family.
He grew up raising hogs for 4-H
and wanted that lifestyle. And
she was game.
“I’m not a country girl,” she
said, laughing.
She loves her country address and the wide-open
spaces it provides (Columbus
Grove mailing address but Allen
County location), the history of
their family home (the Monroe
Center School House was built
in 1897), and their single acre
on which she can dabble at a
garden and raising animals.
There are picket fences and
coneflowers and even an orange tabby kitten on the porch.
Picturesque.
While she’s not so sure about
bona fide farming, Boughan has
always been attracted to baking.
She studied graphic design and
counts herself a creative-leaning
person.
“Even with three kids, I think
(baking) is relaxing. It’s something I enjoy,” she said. “I think I
just sort of have an artsy knack.”
So, when they relocated,
renovated the house with much
help from his family and got
settled, Boughan started hearing from her husband’s family
about all the things they were
taking to the fair. She started to
be interested.
“Well, I could bake cookies,”
she remembers thinking. “And
I could make muffins. … I don’t
know if fever is the right word,
but you just get caught up in it.”
Boughan first entered the
Allen County Fair in 1996 or ’97
— she can’t quite remember
— and she has done so almost
every year since. She didn’t
work while their children were
smaller, and she has started
working again recently. (Two
kids are at college and one is in
high school.) Her job has made
it trickier to compete at the fair.
“There’s been years that I
entered a lot of stuff,” she said.
What’s “a lot”? Perhaps 40
different items, ranging from
baked goods to cake decorating to a few canned goods, even
though she says canning isn’t
really her thing. And sometimes
she would make duplicate items
for the Ohio State Fair, which
for a time overlapped with the
Photo by Adrienne McGee Sterrett
… a fair exhibitor
Allen County Fair.
Two plastic totes hold her ribbons — and some of her kids’
ribbons are mixed in there too,
she said — but there have to be
hundreds.
In all of that, though, she has
a clear proudest moment: best
white cake. She laughs telling
the story, explaining there was
a Kenton woman who always
entered white cake and won.
Everyone will know exactly who
she’s talking about, she said,
grinning.
“I think sometimes … you get
your recipe perfect and it’s just
hard to beat,” she said.
Boughan made it a goal to
bake a better white cake, and
she had to work at it a few years.
“But one year I actually succeeded,” she said.
Winning, of course, is glori-
ous — but more than that,
Boughan appreciates the camaraderie.
“I do think that even though
it’s a competition — some
people may think it’s cutthroat
or something — but I think everybody’s out there to help everybody,” she said. “It’s just so
nice to see new people involved
and want to be a part of it.”
She remembers convincing
her neighbor to enter something, a casserole. The neighbor
won.
“I was so excited for her,”
she said. “There’s more to being first place. … It’s not just all
about being the champion or
getting the check. It’s a different
kind of family.
“I think it’s just something that
once you’re a part of it, you’re a
part of it.”
“I think sometimes … you get your recipe
perfect and it’s just hard to beat.”
— Tammy Boughan
MONSTER COOKIES
Servings: 1 1/2 dozen
Ingredients:
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup white sugar
1 1/2 cups peanut butter
3 eggs
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon vanilla
4 1/2 cups uncooked rolled oats
1 cup chocolate chips
1 cup M&M’s
Directions:
Mix all ingredients. Line baking sheets with parchment paper. Measure 1/3 cup
of dough for each cookie and place 4 inches apart on sheets. Flatten dough. Bake
for 15 to 20 minutes at 350 F.
Note: Dough can be divided into smaller cookies, doubling the yield. Bake
about 8 to 10 minutes.
(Recipe from Tracy Jerger.)
EASY BEER BREAD
Servings: 1 loaf
Ingredients:
3 cups self-rising flour
12 ounces beer
1/2 cup sugar
2-3 tablespoons of butter
Directions:
Mix flour, sugar and beer. Batter will be thick.
Transfer into greased loaf pan and bake at 350 F for
45 to 50 minutes. Add melted butter to top of loaf and
bake an additional 5 minutes.
Notes: If you lack self-rising flour, add 1 tablespoon
baking powder and 1 1/2 teaspoons salt to regular
flour and mix dough as directed. Boughan reports
this is similar to Tastefully Simple beer bread.
(Recipe from Cooking Light magazine.)
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CASHEW-BUTTER LEAVES
Servings: 2 1/2 to 3 dozen
Cookie Ingredients:
2/3 cup cashews
1/3 cup butter-flavored shortening
1/3 cup butter, softened
3/4 cup sugar
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 2/3 cups flour
Icing Ingredients:
8 ounces white chocolate
squares
4 teaspoons butter-flavored
shortening
3/4 cup cashews, finely chopped
Cookie Directions:
Grind cashews in food processor for 2-3 minutes, until smooth
butter forms. Mix cashew butter,
shortening and butter, beating
until smooth. Add sugars, baking
powder and baking soda. Beat
in eggs and vanilla. Beat in flour.
Divide in half, cover and chill for
3 hours.
Preheat oven to 375 F. Roll to
1/4-inch thickness. Cut out into
desired shape. (The recipe is
so named because the baker
used a leaf-shaped cutter.) Place
2 inches apart on ungreased
cookie sheets. Bake 8-10 minutes
until edges are lightly browned.
Icing Directions:
Melt chocolate and shortening
together, stirring until smooth.
Ice cookies and top each with
chopped cashews.
Note: Good-quality cashew
butter is commercially available
and could be purchased instead
of grinding your own butter.
Boughan reports the delicate
cookies are also quite good without the icing.
(Recipe from Better Homes
and Gardens magazine.)
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Out & About
Compiled by Lora Abernathy
ALLEN COUNTY
and more. Call the state park
office at 419-394-3611.
Sept. 16-18
Sept.
Canal
C
anal Days, Main Street, Delphos.
Call Diane Sterling at 419-6951771 or visit delphoschamber.
com/canaldays.
Sept. 10
Daily and Vincent, 2 p.m. and 7:30
p.m., The Overdrive, 3769 state
Route 127, Celina. Call 419-9259999, email contact@theoverdrive.
com or visit theoverdrive.com.
Sept.16-18, 23-25
“Night Must Fall,” Encore Theatre,
991 North Shore Drive, Lima. Call
419-223-8866, email encore@
mw.twcbc.com or visit amiltellers.
org.
Sept. 11
K 9 to 5 Doggy Daycare Dog
Show, 1-5 p.m., Mercer County Jr.
Fair Building, 1001 W. Market St.,
Celina. Call 419-300-k925.
Sept. 22
Business Olympics, 5 p.m., Lima
YMCA, 345 S. Elizabeth St., Lima.
Call 419-222-6045 or visit limachamber.com.
Sept. 23
New Life Church International
Pastors’ 10 Year Anniversary Gala,
6-10 p.m., The City Club, 144 S.
Main St., Lima. Call 419-999-1615
or visit newlifelima.com.
Sept. 24
Bluffton Fall Festival, 10 a.m. to 4
p.m., various locations, Bluffton.
Contact Daren at Maple Crest at
419-358-1015 or visit blufftonfallfestival.com or facebook.com/
BlufftonFallFest.
Sept. 24
Bud Bash 2016, 4 p.m., Harley
Davidson, 3255 Fort Shawnee
Industrial Drive, Lima. Call 419331-3027 or visit facebook.com/
events/155079878224089.
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Sept. 24-25
Apple Festival, noon-6 p.m., Allen
County Farm Park, 582 Slabtown
Road, Lima. Call 419-221-1232 or
visit jampd.com.
Sept. 25
ABATE Motorcycle Toy Run, noon3 p.m., Allen County Fairgrounds,
2750 Harding Highway, Lima. Call
Dana Frost at 419-230-4969.
AUGLAIZE COUNTY
Sept. 4
Fryburg Homecoming. Visit stjohnfryburg.org.
Sept. 10
K & R Mower Derby 2016, Auglaize County Fairgrounds. Call
Jeremy Resor at 419-753-3141.
Sept. 10
AACA Craft Show, Auglaize County
Fairgrounds. Call the Council on
Aging at 419-738-2438
Sept. 17
Fall into Your Community, 10 a.m.
to 2 p.m., Armstrong Air & Space
Museum, 500 Apollo Drive, Wapakoneta. Call 419-738-8811 or visit
armstrongmuseum.org.
Sept. 24
Wapak Wing Fest 2016. Call the
Wapakoneta American Legion at
419-738-6783.
Sept. 30-Oct.2
Minster Oktoberfest. Visit minsteroktoberfest.com.
HANCOCK COUNTY
Sept. 9
Farm-to-Table Dinner, 6:30 p.m.,
the historic barn at the Scarlet
Oaks Estate. Visit hancockhistoricalmuseum.org.
Sept. 10-11
Ultimate Dogpawlooza, 9250
Township Road 208, Findlay. Call
419-423-1664 or visit hancockhumanesociety.com/our-events.
Sept. 15-18 and 22-24
“The Mousetrap,” Fort Findlay
Playhouse, 300 W. Sandusky St.,
Findlay. Call 419-423-7168 or visit
fortfindlayplayhouse.org.
Sept. 17
Buckeye Tailgate Party, noon-11:55
p.m., Fire Relief Foundation, East
Crawford Street. All proceeds
benefit the foundation.
Sept. 19
Will and Anthony with The Toledo
Symphony Orchestra, 7:30 p.m.,
Marathon Performing Arts Center,
200 W. Main Cross St., Findlay. Call
419-423-2787 or visit marathoncenterarts.org.
Sept. 24
Oktoberfest Findlay, noon-10 p.m.,
Findlay. Call 419-422-3313 or visit
downtownfindlay.com/about/oktoberfest.
Sept. 24
Susan G. Komen Race for the
Cure, 8 a.m. to noon, downtown
Findlay. Email [email protected].
Sept. 30
Rockin’ Road to Dublin, 8 p.m.,
Marathon Performing Arts Center,
200 W. Main Cross St., Findlay.
Call 419-423-2787 or visit marathoncenterarts.org.
HARDIN COUNTY
Sept. 6-11
Hardin County Fair, Kenton. Call
419-675-2396, email [email protected] or visit
hardincountyfair.org.
Sept. 17
Harvest and Herb Festival, 9 a.m.
to 3 p.m., Main Street and Lincoln
Avenue, Ada. Call 419-788-9459
or visit ohio.org/events/31st-annual-ada-harvest-herb-festival.
Sept. 29
Jewelry is Fun Sale, Hardin Memorial Hospital Guild, McCullough
Conference Room. Call Chris
Davis at 419-675-8137 or Linda
Smith at 419-675-8330 or visit
hardincountyoh.org.
MERCER COUNTY
Sept. 11
2016 Mercer County Great
Strides 5K Fundraising Walk for
Cystic Fibrosis, 2-4 p.m., Mercelina Park by the hot water hole,
Celina. Call 419-305-3351.
Sept. 16-18
Fall Festival at Lake Loramie State
Park, 11070 state Route 362,
Minster. Call 937-295-9896 or
visit ohio.org/events/fall-festivalat-lake-loramie-state-park.
Sept. 23
Rock ‘N’ Roll Legends, 2 p.m.
and 7:30 p.m., The Overdrive,
3769 state Route 127, Celina. Call
419-925-9999, email contact@
theoverdrive.com or visit theoverdrive.com.
Sept. 23-24
New Bremen Pumpkinfest, Crown
Pavillian, E. Plum and S. Washington streets, New Bremen. Visit
newbremenpumpkinfest.com.
Sept. 24
Grand Lake Marathon, Lakeshore
Park, Celina. Participants can
choose between a 5K, kids marathon, half marathon, marathon or
relays. Visit grandlakemarathon.
com.
Sept. 29-Oct. 2
Trader Days & Water Race, Ohio
Progressive Sportsman, 740 St.
Peter Road, Fort Recovery. Visit
fortrecovery.org.
PUTNAM COUNTY
Sept. 9-10
St. Joe Homecoming Festival, St.
Josephs Catholic Church, Fort
Recovery. Visit fortrecovery.org.
Sept. 2-3
Glandorf Park Fest. Enjoy famous
bean soup, turtle races, turtle trot,
5K and live music.
Sept. 9-11
Grand Lake St. Marys State Park
Fall Festival, St. Marys. The fourth
annual Fall Festival, held at the
campground, is free and open to
the public. It will include arts and
craft vendors, various food vendors, kids’ activities, live bands
Sept. 3-4
Ottoville Park Carnival. Games,
concessions and a parade on
Sunday.
Sept. 8-11
Pioneer Days, Kalida. Visit pioneerdays.com.
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Sept. 17-18
Leipsic Fall Festival, Buckeye Park,
Leipsic. Visit leipsicchamber.com.
Sept. 23-25
Continental Fall Festival, Main Street,
downtown Continental. Call 419789-1168 or visit continentalfallfestival.com.
VAN WERT COUNTY
Aug. 31-Sept. 5
Van Wert County Fair, 1055 S. Washington St., Van Wert. Call 419-2389270, email [email protected] or
visit vanwertcountyfair.com.
Sept. 4
The 101st annual Gymanfa Ganu,
a festival of sacred hymns sung in
four-part harmony to celebrate the
village of Venodocia’s Welsh heritage, Salem Presbyterian Church,
15240 Main St., Venedocia. Visit
visitvanwert.org.
Sept. 18
Guy and Ralna, 2 p.m., Niswonger
Performing Arts Center of Northwest Ohio, 10700 state Route 118 S.
Call 419-238-6722 or visit npacvw.
org.
Sept. 20
Sam Quinones presentation, 7:30
p.m., Niswonger Performing Arts
Center of Northwest Ohio, 10700
state Route 118 S. Call 419-238-6722
Compiled by Lora Abernathy
or visit npacvw.org.
Sept. 24
Convoy Community Days, 7:30 a.m.
to 9 p.m., 643 N. Main St., Convoy.
Call 877-989-2282 or visit ohio.org/
events/convoy-community-days.
Sept. 24
Jonathan Butler and Gerard
Albright, 7:30 p.m., Niswonger Performing Arts Center of Northwest
Ohio, 10700 state Route 118 S. Call
419-238-6722 or visit npacvw.org.
Sept. 25-27
Bluegrass Festival, Van Wert County
Fairgrounds, 1055 S. Washington St.,
Van Wert. Visit vanwertcountyfair.
com/bluegrass-festival.html.
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AMISH, continued from 16
smile. “He couldn’t afford it. My
King-sized is $350.” He said
he’s so busy, he can’t keep up
with a greenhouse near the
front of his property that was
thick with peppers, peas, snap
beans and zucchini.
“I thought I wasn’t going to
have enough trade to keep me
busy, so I put up the greenhouse,” he said. “Now I don’t
have time for the greenhouse.”
Turn around and head back
south on Township Road 209
to County Road 144 and turn
left, to Pfeiffer Station General
Store (5), at the intersection of
County roads 144, 265 and 215.
This isn’t Amish-run at all, but
the store is a good place to get
soda, snacks, candy, Amishbaked sugar cookies and a
sandwich. Regulars come here
for ice cream.
As you sit outside at one of
the picnic tables under the
building’s awning, look at the
stately brick house across the
street. That’s the old Wheeler
Tavern, a stop, so the Ohio
Historical Marker says, on the
Underground Railroad, a secret
network of hiding places for
escaped slaves from the South.
Farther east, at 20335 County
Road 144 (6), Ben Yoder and
his son, Henry, have 20 acres
of apple trees, including honey
crisp, red and golden delicious
and Jonathan. They sell apples,
in season. Apple butter and
apple cider vinegar are available throughout the year.
Continue east on County
Road 144 into the little hamlet
of Hepburn and turn right on
County Road 227. If you have
the time — and you do — turn
left on Township Road 146,
which bends like a jug handle
and meets up again with
County Road 227 farther south,
taking you through picturesque
fields and patches of wood
where the only sound is of
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insects, birds and cows.
Turn left on County Road 190
and head west to state Route
31. If you’re ready for dinner,
turn left and pass through Mt.
Victory and its antique and
thrift stores and eat at The
Plaza Inn (7), 491 S. Main St., a
regional favorite for 57 years.
Founder Edward Elliott was
one of the three men who
dreamed up the “Certified
Angus Beef” marketing campaign in the 1970s, and there’s
a plaque and commemorative
branding iron honoring him for
that which his daughter, Joan
Elliott Wagner, would be happy
to show you.
“We’re known for our
broasted chicken,” said Elliott
Wagner, and for their buffet,
too.
Save room for dessert, which
you can pick up on your way
back to Kenton at the homestead of Alvin and Barbara
Yoder, 16653 state Route 31
(8). Slow down when you see
the little white sign stating
“Baked goods ahead.” She
makes cinnamon rolls, maple
brown sugar-frosted sugar
cookies, and pies, pies, pies:
butterscotch and apple custard,
pecan and raisin cream, and all
sorts of fruit pies.
Barbara will bake pies to
order. “People send me a letter
in the mail,” she said.
And
one more
thought...
“Summer’s lease
hath all too short
a date.”
— William Shakespeare
Grain shocks dot this Amish
farm’s field on County Road 202
between La Rue and Mt. Victory.
Photo by Amy Eddings
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