Food, food, and more food...

One thing that is never lacking at the Kansas Mennonite Relief Sale is food! Here is a sampling of what you will find and what has gone into bringing them to you:

Verenika and Bohne Beroggi

In the days and months leading up to the sale, there is much that goes on in the background from preparing donations to ordering supplies for the event. Also, volunteers gather in the weeks before the sale to prepare the Bohne Beroggi, warm pastries with a sweet paste inside and a thin drizzle outside, and Verenika, cottage cheese dumplingsa with ham gravy on top .

Feeding of the Multitude

This German buffet in Cottonwood Court typically serves between 6,000 and 10,000 people, and features such morsels as Verenika, Bohne Beroggi, Borscht soup, Cherry and Plum Moos, Zwiebach bread, and home-made pie.

Pancake and Sausage Breakfast

Saturday morning be sure to stop by the Cottonwood Court building for a scrumptious breakfast of eggs, pancakes, sausages, and orange juice, milk, or coffee. Over 1,300 people will be served.

Oh, the sweet aroma of freshly baked cookies!

One of the best part of baking cookies is being able to eat one fresh from the oven. At the Kansas Mennonite Relief Sale, everyone has the opportunity to delight in freshly baked cookies without all the work.

Stop by the Domestic Arts building and delight your senses with the smell of freshly baked cookies, prepared Friday and Saturday. Come and purchase one or a dozen Whoopie Pies, Chocolate Chip, Peanut Butter, Snickerdoodles or Molasses cookies.

Cookies are also available for purchase in the Meadowlark Building.

Apple Butter

It's sad to see a traditional item available at the sale disappear. It's missed and searched for.

Search no more. Apple Butter is back in limited quantity at this year's Kansas Mennonite Relief Sale.

The Jerry Wyse family, from the Haven area, is scheduled to prepare two batches of Apple Butter the morning of Friday, April 11 (off sale grounds). Two batches equal about 450 pints. It is scheduled to be sold in the Meadowlark Building.

In the past, four to five batches were prepared on a weekend of the sale. Don't hesitate if you'd like a pint of Apple Butter at the 2008 sale.

Baked Foods

There is an array of homemade treats available at the Baked Foods booth in the Meadowlark building. Each year individuals and church groups prepare and bake items such as zwieback, home-made noodles, bread, pies, cinnamon rolls, peppernuts, angel food cakes, and poppy seed rolls.

Barbecues and Other Foods

In addition to, or instead of the German Buffet, a lot of people enjoy the chicken barbecue every year, and almost every building has food to buy and eat there or to take home. Some of the other food you will find includes cheese, New Year's cookies (over 35,000 made for an average sale), apple fritters, hamburgers, pork tenders, tacos, yogurt, ice cream, funnel cakes, russian pancakes, hams, and more!

For more details on what is being sold where, and when the various meals and barbecues are starting, see the Schedule and Directory.