Corn Fritter Pennsylvania

Folksy, and tasty, fun returns to Kutztown

You don’t need a time machine to enjoy these experiences. Just visit the Kutztown Folk Festival in Kutztown, Berks County, where Pennsylvania Dutch culture is celebrated with fritter-munching, quilt-stitching and a wealth of traditional craftsmanship.

Where else, after all, are you going to meet an artist like Eric Claypoole, who still paints hex symbols directly onto barns?

The festival, which continues through Sunday, has many family-friendly activities, ranging from pony rides and a petting zoo to hoedown lessons.

Festival spokeswoman April Boyer said her young daughter enjoyed the chance during last year’s festival to make her very own candle — dipping a wick into hot wax, then walking around the stand to let it cool and harden a bit before the next dip.

“The more you dipped it, the thicker your candle would be,” Boyer said.

While the entertainment schedule includes puppet shows, dialect lessons, singalongs and, every day at 3:30 p.m., a Pennsylvania Dutch “wedding” on the children’s stage, Boyer hinted one of the best parts of the festival is the chance to sample Pennsylvania Dutch food.

In addition to fresh-roasted ox, you can try chow-chow, corn fritters, apple dumplings, chicken pot pie and ham as well as (dried apple slices and dumplings.

One of Saturday’s highlights will be a quilt auction that begins at noon. And, speaking of fabrics, anyone who resents doing the laundry with today’s modern conveniences might be interested in an exhibit — new to the festival this year — of hand-cranked washing machines and cumbersome antique irons.

Pennsylvania Dutch Corn Fritters | Delicious Practical Recipes ...

1 Egg, distant

1 t Granulated sugarine

3/4 c Frozen whole-kernel corn,

-thawed 1/4 c Canned cream-style corn

3 tb All-purpose flour

1 tb Chopped chives

1/8 ts Each salt as good as peppers

2 tb Vegetable oil

In middle blending play kick together egg yolk as good as sugar. Using wooden spoon, stir in heart as good as cream-style corn, flour chives, salt as good as pepper; brew well. In tiny blending bowl, regulating electric mixer, kick egg white until unbending though not dry; kindly overlay in to corn mixture. In 10-inch skillet feverishness oil over medium-high heat; dump beat by 1/4 crater measures in to skillet, combining 6 next to fritters . Cook until fritters have been golden upon bottom, about 1 minute; regulating pancake turner, spin fritters over. Cook until golden upon alternative side, about 1 notation longer. Makes 6 servings of 1 poke each. [WEIGHT WATCHERS NEW INTERNATIONAL COOKBOOK] Posted by Fred Peters.

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