Again this year as they have done in many past years, the Central Village Homemakers are sharing their annual luncheon recipes. They are home-tested.
This group of ladies does much more for the community than cooking, although they are great chefs. Their booth at Market Days is one of the most popular. They sponsor the annual Christmas Sing-Along and their additional support to the community makes a long list. They have been doing this for half a century.
Home Demonstration Clubs, the basis of this group, really got a boost in 1914 when the Smith-Lever Act provided legal and financial backing for home demonstration clubs. Women across the country had gathered as home groups interested in improving family life since 1898. By 1951, there were 60,361 home demonstration clubs nationwide.
The Virginia Cooperative Extension Service and Extension agent Mildred Hudgins began home demonstration clubs in Mathews. In the beginning, four or five clubs organized. Today Central Village is the only a...