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Copyright 2008
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presents:
the 67th Annual
2008
Purchase Preston County Buckwheat Flour & Mix on-line
Recipe for Homemade Buckwheat Cakes
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2008 Thursday - Sunday |
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| 67th Annual Sept 25 -Sept 28, 2008 Kingwood, WV Schedule of Events Sponsored by the Kingwood Volunteer Fire Department For more information call: (304) 379-2203 |
Preston County
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Schedule of Events 2008 WEDNESDAY
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SUNDAY - HERITAGE DAY |
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| Recipe
for Preston County Raised Buckwheat Cakes (Recipe makes 8-12 cakes) In a large bowl, mix 1/2 cake household yeast (or 1 cake Fleishman's Yeast or 1 envelope dry yeast) and 1 teaspoon salt into one quart lukewarm water. Let stand a few minutes and then add 3 cups, or enough buckwheat flour to make a stiff batter. Cover and let stand overnight (or at least 4 or 5 hours) When ready to bake the cakes, dissolve 1/2 teaspoon baking soda, 1/2 teaspoon baking powder, and 2 teaspoons sugar in 1 cup hot water. Stir into batter, then add about 1 cup or enough warm water to make a thin batter. Bake on a hot griddle. Save at least 1 cup of the batter for the next baking. (It will keep in the refrigerator for about a week) To renew, add 1 pint lukewarm water, 1/2 teaspoon salt and enough buckwheat flour to make a stiff batter. Cover and let stand overnight (or at least 4 - 5 hours) When ready to bake the cakes.... |
| 2008
Schedule for Ready to
Eat Buckwheat Cake Dinners This list only shows the locations and times the webmaster has been told about. There may be others |
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| From the Kingwood
VFD Community Building kitchens, all-you-can-eat Buckwheat Cake Dinners are served with
Preston County produced whole hog sausage (two patties come with the dinner, but extra
patties may be purchased), margarine, syrup, applesauce, and a choice of beverage.
Buckwheat Cake Dinners are served all over
the County,
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Grocery List |
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Buckwheat Festival, thousands of visitors flock to the KVFD Community Building to feast on Preston County's famous buckwheat cake and sausage dinners. The record number of dinners served during a four-day Festival at the KVFD alone is 16,129. The "Grocery list" required to feed such a throng is truly mind-boggling. The sausage is a totally Preston County product, except for the seasonings. 4-H and FFA project hogs are prepared at the Preston High School meat processing facility. Then, in the Community Building's pristine "Meat Room", this prime pork is cut up, twice ground, seasoned and pattied. For the above record year, 11,442 pounds of pork were made into 37,201 patties (5 patties per pound) to be served as part of the Community Building dinners. Used to season this sausage were 12 pounds of Jamaican ginger, 18 pounds of black pepper, 150 pounds of salt, and 288 pounds of brown sugar. Beside the sausage, some of the supplies ordered were 612 pounds of margarine, 4,944 (original order) half-pints of milk, 288 #10 cans of applesauce, 1,238 24-ounce bottles of syrup, 2 tons of buckwheat flour, and 50 pounds of yeast -- as well as 700 pounds of coffee to fill the bottomless cups. In Festival supply annals, 1994 is remembered as the year of the milk run. An unprecedented 8,000 half-pints of milk were consumed and the demand remained. Those in charge of supplying the kitchens raided grocery and convenience stores and rounded up 88 gallon jugs, [1,408 half-pints], leaving the general population of the town virtually milk-less during the weekend. |
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additional information regarding the Preston County Buckwheat Festival please contact: (304) 379-2203 Darla Kuhn Other Preston County Buckwheat
Festival Pages on this Site:
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