Milford chronicle., 1953-06-26
Chicken Festival
Is Very Successful
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the Delmarva Chicken Festival
with 81 teenagers, including one
boy, competing for honors in the
junior cooking contest. This con-
test and a talent show, followed
Tuesday evening BY the worlds
biggest chicken fry, were fea-
lures of the second day of the sixth
annual celebration at the fair
grounds at Harrington.
Thlrteen-year-old Patsy Lee
Jones of Georgetown took TOP hon
ors in the cooking contest with her
"a la barbecue chicken (Delmar-
val" She won $50 cash, a gold
trophy presented by the National
Poultry and Egg Board, and her
choice Of a gas or electric stove.
Lone Boy In Contest
Charles Pepper, IA, Georgetown
farm boy, and the lone male in the
lineup, took sixth prize with his
speciality, Peppers Poppy Chick
en-"
Second place went to Jean Hast
ings, IA, of Bridgeville, who pre-
pared spiced chicken. Her prizes
were $40 cash and choice of stove.
Barbecued chicken won third
rating for Lois Fuchs, Ridgely, Md,
who received $50 cash and choice
OF stove.
Other award winners follow:
Fourth place, Susan Deputy. Sails
bury; fifth, Helen MumfOrd, Sea
ford; sixth, Pepper; seventh, Kay
Hammond of Bridgeville; eighth.
Katharine Bair, Colora, Md; ninth.
Dolores Lloyd, Newark, and 10th.
Virginia Lee Smith, Bridgeville.
Heads County Seat Club
Miss Jones, the daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Jones, is a blue
eyed blonde and is president of the
County Seat All Girls Club of
Georgetown and a member of the
Georgetown High Junior Student
Council.
Her prize recipe follows: Take a |
whole young chicken. /
wash chicken we'll, dry and truss
wings and legs securely: rub in
salt, butter, and some lemon. ac-
eOrding to taste. Then put chicken
on the spit of a brOiler lengthwise:
put spit exactly through center of
chicken; set the skewers on spit
very firmly into chicken to hold
fowl in place. While it is turning
begin basting after 20 minutes
With barbecue sauce and baste un-
II done. Cooking time two hours.
Barbecue sauce ingredients: Il
;up salad oil, one small onion
minced, one teaspoon Worcester
'hire sauce, Il cup tomato sauce.
Y cup chicken broth or water.
easpoon- salt, 1s teaspoon pepper.
z cup vinegar or white wine. 10
love, garlic minced, or IA tea
pOon garlic salt, and one teaspoon
4 chopped parsley. Simmer all in
'redients Is minutes.
Judges for the junior contest
we're: Jane Hartman, food service
lirector, Maryland State Board of
health; MaVis Gibbs, home editor
II the Southern Planter, Richmond.
"a; Ruth BrennOn, state nutri-
iOnist, Delaware Board of Health.
lnd Mrs. Alice JeWett of the NEA
Syndicate.
There was some added excite
ment as Patsy Lee was declared
winner, her three-year-Old brother. II
Robert Allen, being reported "miss-
ng". However, he was soon loca-
e& wandering in the large crowd
which witnessed the contest.
Mrs. Frank H. Tharp of Lewes
vas declared the National Chicken
looking Champion at 4:3O We'd
lesday afternoon during the sixth
nnual Delmarva Chicken Festival
t the Kent-Sussex Fair Grounds
n Harrington.
Here is her recipe and we bring
to you only through the kindness
4 Gov. ]. Caleb BOggs who loaned
MS personal driver for a fast trim
p through the state. Corp. Walter
'edWick brought Frances Black
wood of the Philadelphia Bulletin
nd a food editor through the late
vening traffic so smoothly and
.uickly that they scarcely realized
hey had reached Wilmington
gain, and had to return to work
-fter three days of good country
ood and plenty of chicken.
Mrs. Tharp, the winner, is ac-
.ustomed to using chicken as a
nainstay for her table as her hus-
'and is well known grower of
indian River ks, (that mean that
us chickens are crossbreds of
White cockerels and reds).
She is the mother of three chill
Iren, Joan, IS; Alvin, Is; Nancy
ZEE, 8; the president Of the Nation
j Home Demonstration Group of
ewes, and treasurer of the PTA
# Lewes.