10th annual White House Weekend event at White House Fruit Farm

March 15, 2014 at 4:54p.m.

CANFIELD

When she was 4 or 5, Maria Schrock spent a lot of time on a small step stool weighing noodles on a scale, and standing on a chair to dry dishes for her mother.

“I remember that so well,” Schrock said, referring to having helped at Mrs. Miller’s Homemade Noodles, a business her mother, Esther Miller, started in 1973 in Fredericksburg, Ohio, just south of Wooster.

You won’t find the 40-year-old Schrock on a chair or a stool, but you’ll still find her surrounded by homemade noodles — this time at the 10th annual White House Weekend event at White House Fruit Farm Inc., 9249 Youngstown-Salem Road (state Route 62).

The free customer-appreciation gathering kicked off Saturday and continues from noon to 4 p.m. today at White House.

Fifteen local and regional food vendors are selling and providing samples of their products that include gourmet coffees, maple syrup, sausage, peppers and snack items, noted Debbie Pifer, White House’s owner.

“People are ready to get out of the house and this sort of kicks off our season at the farm,” she said.

Schrock and her husband, Arnold Schrock, run Mrs. Miller’s Homemade Noodles, which produces about 1,000 pounds of pasta per hour in 20 flavors, he noted.