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Eighty Four, PA 15330 (724) 228-3339

Hours: M-S 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sun. 12 p.m. to 9 p.m.

April 20, 2008

Next SpringHouse
FAMILY Event

Mother's Day
Chicken BBQ
May 11
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Farm Heritage Day
May 24
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Time to book your
Farm Tour at the
SpringHouse!
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The SpringHouse was opened in December, 1975 when the Sam and Bev Minor family, complete with five little people twelve and under, started milking cows, processing HORMONE FREE milk, and running the country store. Over the years The SpringHouse has grown and changed, as has the Minor family. With the emphasis on quality and good service for our customers, Sam and Bev first concentrated on the freshest milk in town, delicious cheeses, homegrown sweet corn and old-fashioned hickory smoked meats in a old-time country atmosphere. Adding a bakery gave the SpringHouse an opportunity to serve hot sandwiches and soups along with our other goods. In 1986, an expanded version of The SpringHouse opened to include buffet style meals where you can get a different homemade meal everyday, homegrown produce, a bakery, old-fashioned gifts and knick-knacks, country catering, farm-fresh dairy products, hickory smoked hams and ice cream concoctions, all in an old-time country setting.

milkwhite.gif (1543 bytes) SpringHouse Farm Fresh HORMONE FREE Milk - You'll find on our milk cooler shelves our own chocolate milk, buttermilk, and heavy cream, along with whole, 2% and skim milk, all pasteurized and homogenized, and freshly made by our 200 cow herd, which we milk two times a day.

Everyday, the SpringHouse bakers fill the antique stoves with oodles and oodles of homemade cookies; Pumpkin Cookies with Brown Sugar Icing (great Aunt Gladys' recipe), Orange Drop Cookies, Ginger Snaps, Tollhouse Cookies, Peanut Butter Cookies, Pie Scraps (just like your Grandma used to make - butter, sugar, and cinnamon rolled in flaky pie dough), Peanut Butter iced brownies, and Cowabunga Cookies. Plus, lots of special breads are cranked out by those bakers too; Country Bread, Farmers' Bread, 8 Grain, Caraway Rye, Veggie Focaccias (in the summertime with summer-fresh veggies), pan rolls, sandwich buns and more!

We also do from-scratch pies (Yes, we really do make the pie dough by hand, peel the apples, and cook the fruit fillings...you should see our
muscles!), and delicious family recipe cakes like Chocolate Raspberry Bash, Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Icing, Banana Flip Cake, Blueberry Cheesecake Bars, Apple Crisp and lots more. Six to ten homemade desserts are featured everyday on our buffet line Come hungry! Eat a piece at our place or order a pie for your family.

Ten Foot Deli Case - Our very own Salad Lady starts early in the morning to make homemade fresh vegetable and pasta deli salads everyday.

Meats and Cheeses - Fresh lunchmeats, smoked sausage, kolbassi and lean ground chuck fill our meat case. We also offer a variety of sharp and mild cheeses for sandwiches and cooking: have it sliced or in a hunk.

Hot Buffet - We fill our buffet with a different homemade lunch and supper every Monday through Sunday (yes, we really do peel and mash our potatoes!) Sunday meals and suppers feature all your favorite family-recipe main dishes and casseroles and lots of desserts too! Lunch menus are complete with hot and cold sandwiches, casseroles, vegetables and soup, and homemade desserts. Feel free to sit in the sunporch and watch the cows out in the field as you eat.

wpe178.jpg (6682 bytes) Memory Making Events - Throughout the year, the SpringHouse features fun family events like Mothers' Day Chicken Bar-B-Q, Father's Day Steak Fry, Teddy Bear Tea Party, Breakfast with Santa, Autumn Hog Roast Meals and More! Visit the Calendar of Events page to learn what's coming up!

welcomegarden.gif (3194 bytes) Fresh Produce - Harvest time at The SpringHouse means the produce tables overflow with local tomatoes, peppers, green beans, cantaloupes, sugar babies (baby watermelons), broccoli, cauliflower, and, of course, our own farm fresh sweet corn.
Isn't summer great!?!

Hickory Smoked Hams - Yes we do use real hickory wood in our smokehouse out back! And, yes, it really does take 12-18 hours to smoke a ham the old-fashioned way. People tell us our hams taste the way they remember them tasting in the "olden days". These will make the perfect centerpiece for your party or celebration, or a unique gift to give.

Whole ham (18-22 lbs.)
Butt half (10-12 lbs.)
Shank half (8-11 lbs.)

kitchfurn2.gif (2602 bytes) "A Little Bit of Everything" - The antique jelly cupboards are full of orchard-made jellies and jams, canned pickles and relishes, and unique dressings and toppings. All the walls and the wooden harvest wagon are covered with country baskets, corn husk dolls, funny stuffed farm animals, and lots more that make great gifts for any occasion.

Ice Cream Concoctions - Stop by the ice Cream case for a real Milkshake, Mud Covered Dirt Ball, Toasted Almond Fudge Ball, Apple Dumpling with Ice Cream, and Strawberry Ice Cream Shortcake (in the summertime). Plus, everyday, we're up to our elbows dipping 25 kinds of ice cream on every kind of cone imaginable. In the Spring and Summer, we feature chocolate chip cones, pretzel cones and M & M cones. And, all year long you can have the SpringHouse folks pile it high on a sugar cone, cake cone or waffle cone.

Gift Baskets - Holidays call for special baskets filled with lots of goodies from our country store. We'll heap them full of scratch pies, cheeses, breads, teas, special fruits, meats, jellies, candies, coffees, cookies and more. Call us at 724-228-3339. We'll help you fill your gift baskets with just the right goodies for all your gift giving.

3bigballoons.gif (2911 bytes) Festivals - You may even find our SpringHouse booth at your favorite festival. We love to serve all kinds of ice cream concoctions like Apple Dumplings with Ice Cream, Strawberry Shortcakes, Fresh Fruit Parfaits, and Boston Coolers to all of you festival goers. If you'd like our little red booth at your function, just give us a call at (724) 228-3339; we like to be where the action is!

Come and enjoy some of the many things to see and take home at The SpringHouse in Eighty Four, PA.