The combined group of the Cobden Agrciultural Society directors and the 4H Cobden Pizza Club members are, front row from left, Cordel Ferguson, Jamie Schultz, Katie Stewart, Shavaun Donohue, Matthew Wren, Elyza Wren, Cassie Brenner, Maddie Enright, Maggie McFarlane, Morgan Sweeney and Jeremy Dale. Middle row from left: Jaime Stewart, Andrew Wren, Penny Gordon, Hayley Stewart, Brady Wytenberg, Henry Gale, Megan Enright and Sydney Ferguson. Back row from left: Cobden Pizza Club president Erin Sweeney, Ag Society President Brian Burwell, Meridith Mulligan, Stewart McBride, Pat O’Neil, Dorothy Edwards, John O’Gorman, Steve Schultz, Brian Hamilton and Mark Lafont.
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COBDEN — Young people had opportunity to create pizzas, compare pizzas and serve pizzas.
The 4H Cobden Pizza Club recently hosted its achievement night by creating a variety of pizzas for the executive of the Cobden Agricultural Society.
Penny Gordon said at the sixth meeting of the club, members prepared to create enough pizzas to serve the executive and themselves.
The club members were “taught how to make homemade pizza from scratch and some side dishes,” she said.
Ms. Gordon said the leaders taught them to learn the basics of making a pizza crust and then use a variety of toppings, from easy such as pepperoni and cheese to adding chicken.
They also had opportunity to try a variety of cheeses to see which ones worked on a pizza and which ones didn’t, as well as create a stuffed crust pizza, which was filled with spinach and cheese, she said.
During one class, the members had opportunity to compare their pizzas to the frozen pizzas purchased in stores.
“Before I did the club, I ate frozen pizzas,” Ms. Gordon said. “Not now. I’ll make it from scratch.
“You get to pick the flavour.
“It might take more time, but it’s more satisfying.”
A homemade pizza is also more healthy than a frozen one, Ms. Gordon added.
She said the motto of the 4H was followed, which is learn to do by doing.
Other clubs that 4H members can try include square dancing, which just held its achievement night and birds and bats.
On pizza achievement night, the pizzas included bbq chicken southwestern; taco, and pepperoni and mushroom. The members also provided pizza pasta salad, pizza pinwheels and garlic bread. And to end the tasty meal, there was strawberry pizza made with shortbread crust and fruit pizza made with rice krispie crust.
Brian Hamilton from the ag society thanked the members for a wonderful supper.
