And maybe a few other communities. Tuma will cook at least 50 pounds of potatoes for dumplings. Tuma estimated that from 70 to 90 dozen kolaches will be made for the event. You can eat as many as you want. Besides the pork, dumplings and kolaches, the menu will include sauerkraut, Jell-O salads and dinner rolls.
Preparations begin days before the dinner, then pick up steam that weekend.
Tuma is at the church or Cotesfield Community Center, across the street from the church, by 7 a.m. that Sunday morning. But I can hear the service from the basement. The success of the pork dinner is a great story. The longevity of the church is another. The first settlers reached Cotesfield in 1871.