Carmichael Pioneer Day Celebration

It's hard to believe but I think this is the first time in the almost 7 years that we've lived in the Sacramento area that we've actually attended the Church's 27th of July, Pioneer Day celebration. And we probably wouldn't have made it this year had we not been on the Activities committee and therefor more involved with the planning than we have been in prior years.

Our ward's assignment for the Pioneer Day picnic was to serve the Pancake/Eggs/Bacon breakfast. Now the idea was to have people walk down either side on the outside of these two tables picking up the food as they did. Not much work for us there. Oh, we were supposed to monitor for no more than 2 pieces of bacon, 2 pancakes, 1/2 banana, small grouping of grapes, small scoop of scrambled eggs, etc.

As it turned out, monitoring was the same as handing out the correct portion. Everyone who had agreed to help out, came on time so we actually had more than enough hands to keep the food moving.


We also acted as runners - bringing the food from the griddles and stove tops to the serving tables. (Because I carry around a pocket knife, I also helped with cooking the scrambled eggs.)


After folks got their food, they would go back up the hill to get their OJ or/and milk of water. They alkso heard about what games and other activities were going to be going on.


The real workers, of course, were the cooking crew. They were setting up at least 30 minutes before we got there and were still cleaning up when we had finished .


One of the interesting things they used this morning was five pound bags of raw eggs. They come frozen. There's three or four bags in this pan. If you can keep them in boiling water long enough, you get beautifully scrambled eggs with no frying involved.

Another innovation I saw this morning was frying "completely cooked" bacon. As you might imagine, that really just involved heating up so it goes very fast. But the end result looks and tastes like the real thing.

Since our boys had been enjoying all the games and treats such as the sno-cones while we were working, they were quite anxious to go home as soon as the breakfast serving stopped. But it was a fun morning.