Berks Country watches scrapple being made

Berks Country watches scrapple being made

Marlin Dietrich still remembers that late July weekend in 1969. He was a young teenager helping his parents, Willard and Verna, dry several bushels of green beans that hadn’t sold at their weekend stand at the Renninger’s Farmer’s Market in Kutztown. They were in the kitchen of their farmhouse feeding the wood stove while drying the beans in a steam dryer, a process that would make the ingredients for string beans and ham later in the winter. “I…