The Sanger Family

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Photography Contest Prize

This spring, I entered a photo contest in "Today and Tomorrow" a local magazine.. I didn't expect to win but much to my surprise I won first place! The picture I entered was featured as the magazine's cover photo for the summer issue and I won a three night stay at Wild Asaph Cabin up in Wellsboro, PA.

Each entree could have up to three photos taken somewhere in Pennsylvania.
Out of the three pictures I sent in this is not the one I thought would win!
I was pleasantly surprised! :)

Wellsboro is a very cute little town. Mommy thought these gas laterns were really neat.

We arrived at the cabin on Thursday afternoon and went for a little hike on the mountain.

Friday morning we went to the Leonard Harrison State Park.

It was foggy and rainy so in the afternoon we went back to the cabin and played games.

We saw quite a few deer!

Saturday morning we went to Colton Point State Park.

Hope, Daddy, Joshua, and I rode our bikes down the mountain for three miles! It was a lot of fun! Much better than going UP hill! :)

We met up with the rest of our crew at the Darling Run Access Area where we got on the Pine Creek Rail Trail.

We rode about 8 miles down the trail and had a picnic.

Joshua and Lillia decided to try and catch a crayfish.

Hopie caught one too!

On our way back we stopped at the Turkey Trails.

Uh oh! Elainah fell in! :-/

We got to see a bald eagle!!! That was a highlight of our trip!

Friday, September 28, 2012

Doughnut Recipe

1 cup sugar

3 eggs beaten

1 Tablespoon salt

Mix together

2 cups hot water

1 cup lard or crisco (we used crisco)

2 cups mashed potatoes or potato flakes mixed with water to equal 2 cups (we used potato flakes)

1 Tablespoon lecithin (this helps make the donuts soft)

2 Tablespoons yeast dissolved in 2 cups warm water

10 cups occident flour

2 cups donut mix

Knead together and let rise for approxiamately 1 hour in a warm place.
Roll out. Cut donut shapes with cutter or the top of a glass works well.
Poke with a fork to prevent air bubbles later when frying.
Let rise. Fry in vegetable oil approx. 1 min each side or until golden brown.
Let cool. Fill with cream or glaze and enjoy!

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Doughnut Day

On Monday we made 250+ doughnuts with Keepers! Cream-filled and Glazed Doughnuts, Blueberry Cake Doughnuts, and Cinnamon Sugar Doughnut Holes. This was a messy meeting with all the flour and powdered sugar flying around so we had it outside in our garage. Lillian and Becca, some of our Amish friends, came and started a few batches of dough so they could rise before the other club members arrived.

Once the Keepers Girls arrived we rolled out the dough and started cutting out doughnuts!!!
We only had one doughnut cutter so we used the top of glasses as well.

Lillian suggested using our table extention leaves for the doughnuts to rise on.

After the doughnuts were cut out we let them rise again...guess where? In the back of our van! :) The van was nice and warm inside so it made a perfect place for them to rise!

After the doughnuts rose we fried them.

After we cut out the doughnuts we poked each one with a fork. The amish ladies said this prevents air bubbles from forming while frying. If they get air bubbles they won't flip properly.

Filling the doughnuts with cream... Yummy! :)

We bought a 5 gal. bucket of pre-made doughnut cream from an Amish bakery down the road.

Becca and Lillian brought their doughnut fillers. You poke a doughnut on the spout and pump the handle twice and then your doughnut is filled with delicious icing! :)