Willing Workers of White Hall’s Extension Homemakers Club met Oct. 25 at the White Hall Library. President Cheri Aronowitz welcomed everyone and Sarah Payton read the Thought of the Month “Good thoughts bear good fruit. Bad thoughts bear bad fruit, and man is his own gardener.”
Vice President Karen Needler led members in the Homemaker’s Creed. Dee Kindrick read the Handy Hint “To test freshness of dried herbs, rub them between your hands to extract the essences of the herbs. If there is no smell they are no good.”
Marnette Reed read the Inspiration from Colossians 4:6: “Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.” Secretary Elizabeth Wall called the roll with members answering the question “Have you ever used a crock pot liner?”
Members present were Aronowitz, Needler, Jo Ann Carr, Payton, Reed, Kindrick, Peggy Barbaree, Shiela Childers, Sue Medlock and Wall.
Aronowitz presented the program on Crock Pot Cooking. She said most slow cookers have two or three settings. When using the low setting, food will cook in six to 10 hours. Using the high setting allows food to cook in four to six hours.
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If possible, turn the slow cooker on the high setting for the first hour of cooking time and then use the setting that fits your needs. She said the benefits of using a slow cooker include: Uses less electricity than an oven; useful throughout the year.
Aronowitz passed out information on Slow Cooker Safety, Handling Leftovers Safely, Converting Recipes for Your Slow Cooker and Recipes for Crock Pot Cooking. For more information on this subject, contact Mary Ann Kizer, Family and Consumer Sciences agent, at 534-1033.
Barbaree, community service chairwoman, reported that the club has 100 turbans to be delivered to the Arkansas Cancer Institute at Pine Bluff. Members will be working on more to be delivered in early 2017.
She also reported several members are working on caps for Arkansas Children’s Hospital and they will be delivered later this year. Barbaree said she had passed out several angel pins that she had made to patients at the Cancer Institute recently. Sue Medlock is continuing to work on crosses for White Hall Nursing and Rehab patients to be given out before Christmas. Cereal was collected for the White Hall Food Pantry.
Dee Kindrick, recreation leader, recommended several events members might be interested in attending. Sarah Payton reported a few wreaths are still needed to have one for each patient’s room at White Hall Nursing and Rehab and members decided to buy 10 wreaths to have enough for this project.
Jo Ann Carr, education chairwoman, reminded members of the County Craft Smorgasbord that was scheduled Nov. 17 at the county extension office.
Aronowitz reported that the club received two awards at the fall council, one an Honor Club Award and one for first place in the scrapbook contest. Members decided to go to Murry’s Dinner Theater in Little Rock on Nov. 20 for a club outing.
Refreshments of Crock Pot Turkey Vegetable Soup, Surprise Slaw, Crock Pot French Onion Dip Sandwiches and cake were furnished by Aronowitz and Needler.