Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-06-24
BY Violet Faulkner

GEORGETOWN, Del. Beam
ing with justifiable pride over her
culinary achievement Mrs. Anne
M. Barczewski of Newark, DEL,
yesterday won the title of cook
ing queen" in the national
chicken cooking contest at the
seventh annual Delmarva chicken
festival.
Delaware's Gov. ]. Caleb Boggs
crowned the winner and con-
graduated her on her skill as a
fine cook and homemaker.
Mrs. Barczewski won this COW
eted honor over more than a
hundred other contestants in the
senior class with her recipe for
Delawine broiled chicken. She's
a 43-year homemaker, mar
ried Is years, and is the mother
of three children. Her husband
owns and operates a dairy farm
in Wilmington, Del. Her son
Steven, %, just graduated from
the United States Naval Acad-
envy at Annapolis. The other
two children are jeanne 20 and
16-year-old George.
Mrs. Barczewski has been a
faithful conteStant-she's en-
tered all but one since the con-
test started in 1913. Four years
ago she placed sixth in the list
of winners. Today she was so
excited she almost tainted when
her name was announced.
AS first prize winner Mrs.
Barczewski received a trophy
presented by the Poultry and
Egg National Board, $500 in cash,
her choice of range (gas or cleo
tric) an armful of red roses,
one-week vacation for two at
George Washington Hotel in
Ocean City, Holland-Dru IRON
ware and a set of American
Maid kitchen cutlery.
Second place in the list of
winners went to Mrs. Clifford B.
Smith of White Hall, Md. Her
prizes included $500 in cash,
choice of range, set of Hallite
by Wearever and Carvel Hall
cutlery. Her recipe was Del
marva roly poly.
Oldest woman contestant was
Mrs. Katherine Williams of
Washington, D. c., who is IS.
Mrs. Williams chicken tetrazzini
was mighty good-we know
she made an extra casserole of
it and passed out samples.
Travelling the longest distance
to enter this yearly contest was
Mr.. James Lucas, from Santa
Monica, Calf.
Ten men pitted their cooking
skill against the ladies. E.
Peter Richardson, Berlin, Md,
poultry grower and candidate
for the Maryland State Senate
(the primaries will be held Mon
day. prepared a dish he calls
'Delmarva Quickie. This was
his 4th contest. Maybe he had
politics on his mind this year,
which accounts for the fact he
didn't get on the list of winners.
Rev. A. Edward Doughery of
Lewes, Del, was another of the
male entries. The oldest gentle
man to compete was 83-year-
old Frank Ruggiero of Laurel,
Del. Mr.. Ruggiero is a farmer,
married, has six children and
six grandchildren. His broiled
chicken looked delicious but the
women beat him out this year.
Everywhere you looked the
past three days you saw chicken
being fried or broiled and every
one nibbling on a drumstick or
chicken breasts. There was
chicken galore all over the place
and no wonder the Delnarva
Peninsula is the second largest
poultry producing area in the
country. About 3 million broiler
chickens, or II million pounds,
are grown. proceSsed and shipped
out of the area every week..
That's a lot of chicken. Within
the past few years Georgia has
noSed out Delmarva and stepped
up into first place as producing
the greatest volume of broiler-
fryerS.
Over coffee yesterday morning
Dave Green of Dover, DEL, past
president of the Delmarva
Chicken Festival, Inc, told us
he kept between three and four
hundred thousand broilers on his
poultry farm most of the time.
One man, with the modern
equipment now available, can
handle 40 to so thousand birds
he said.
DeIowore BroiIed Chicken
First Price
Two ready-to-cook chickens,
212 to 3 pounds, split.
Two teaspoons salt.
One-eighth cup apple jelly.