Golden Wheat AHSGR Folklore Meeting

This was the Folklore meeting of Golden Wheat Chapter of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia. This meeting many members bring traditional foods and share family history.

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It wasn't a real big crowd but there was plenty of food and a good variety.

There were bierocks and sausage...

Zwieback..

A poppy seed pastry...

...Gooseberry pie and peppernuts.

We started off with a prayer as usual...

 and then Karen told everyone filled their plates.

We had the installation of officers. Karen C., Membership chair was out with the flu. Ella and Dennis traded jobs, other than that no change.

Officers stood as they accepted their positions.

Vail presented the budget for approval.

Mel presented the memorial service.

The program was member sharing about our ancestors coming to Kansas as part of Kansas celebrating it's statehood today. Ella F. started with a poem about Kansas written by Ella D. then she gave brief history of our coming to Russia and the reasons why we fled Russia, stories of the various Russian colonies and where in Kansas they settled.

    Alberta N. gave her family history of coming to Kansas.

Dennis shared his family migration history,

Karen shared an interesting book for teaching children and adults about our history using zwieback as a teaching tool (see picture of display table at beginning of post). As the meeting was ending Karen presented the plaque commemorating Rachel Smith for her contribution to the library and beyond.

Our Folklore meeting is always one of the favorites of the year because of the wonderful food and sharing of family memories. A Wonderful way to start a New Year!

Golden Wheat Chapter Fall Meeting

October 16th was the Fall meeting of Golden Wheat Chapter of the American Historical Society of Germans from Russia. 

Today's meeting was special in that the chapter provided a bierock for each of those attending. 

As always there was plenty of food to go with the bierocks.

The desert table had a delicious selection.

It was a small group...

Everyone enjoyed visiting before the meal.

Karen welcomed everyone and returned Grace...

...then invited the children to begin the food line. 

We also had our bierock fund raiser going on at this time. Money being collected and counted, numbers crunched.

Good company and good conversation.

Karen began the meeting with her report from headquarters then Dennis gave a report from the Kansas Round Up of Chapters. 

Ella read out Mission Statement then presided over the Election of Officers.

Our program was a remastered film on Norka in the 1920's. 

Ella brought a map showing Norka and a village plat map.

Another successful meeting of the 

Golden Wheat Chapter AHSGR

Bierock Bake Fundraiser 2012

Our Golden Wheat Chapter AHSGR held its annual bierock bake to raise funds. There was a lot of prep work that went into getting ready for the day but...
Here's how it works:

You need lots and lots of dough...

...and because it's frozen you have to warm it up...

...and you need lots and lots of meat & cabbage...

...that needs to be measured out just so...

...then you roll out the dough into nice little circles, put the meat and cabbage filling on it and pinch it all together nicely sealed.

At peak production in the afternoon we had two stations with 3 rollers and 1 sealer.

Before baking they need to rise...

Sorry I can't supply you with the smell, that would just be teasing you anyway, since you can't have one, but aren't they beautiful?

We don't want to leave out all the other hard workers, we had plenty of great help with keeping the baking sheets cleaned up and ready for the next batch, plus all the other needed tasks in the kitchen...

And one of the most important jobs, getting the finished product all boxed up and marked for who they are to go to...

Another GREAT fund raiser! And it seems like no matter HOW MANY we bake, there's always more people asking to be put on the list to buy them.