4–H club members learn to make hot fudge

By Maria Vandenbrand
Club Reporter

Another week of Explore 4-H and the club is having lots of fun making hot fudge and berry sundaes and sewing hems and buttons.
Even though this week ran late, half of the club had fun by making hot fudge by melting chocolate chips and mixing in corn syrup, butter, water, salt and vanilla. While they cooked, the other half of the group sewed hems and learned to attach buttons properly. Later, the groups switched and the second group made berry syrup by mixing thawed berries with corn starch, sugar, water and lemon juice.
This week the club decided on the name “Pine River Club” because most of the meetings are held at Kim’s house and Kim’s house is located by the Pine River.
The club also had another member join in. Her name is Samantha Westover, who caught on to 4-H pretty quickly.
The club’s next meeting will be held on Wednesday, May 2. It will be held at Sundwall Gardens, which is also Brett Ploegman’s house. The club will explore and learn about the greenhouse that is owned and operated by Brett’s parents, Susan and Ken Ploegman.