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The annual “Latwerch fest,” or plum butter fest, will take place from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday in Morbach. Visitors will be able to taste and purchase different types of fruit butter: plum, diet, apple, pear and mirabelle butter. Hella Ullinger and her helpers prepared the fruit butter based on an original recipe from her grandmother.
“This year we started early with preparations,” Mrs. Ullinger said. “I had to get the majority of the plums from Erpolzheim since we did not have enough here in our area.”
Other products made of local fruit and up for sale will be mirabelle, elder and currant jelly. Also available will be Latwerch cookies based on Mrs. Ullinger’s great grandmother’s recipe.
“For lunch we will serve a traditional Palatinate dish: homemade potato soup with plum cake,” Mrs. Ullinger said. “I have to get up in the middle of the night to bake the cakes.”
The females of Morbach will bake various other cakes to be served with coffee all day long. The fest will also feature a raffle and an auction from 1 to
3 p.m. Items such as a fish made of granite by a local stonemason, coffee machines and toys will be up for auction.
“With the proceeds we want to establish the foundation for godparenthood and support a girl from Haiti in the long term,” Mrs. Ullinger said.
The Latwerch fest takes place on Hochstrasse 18 in Morbach, which is a part of Niederkirchen, located north of Otterberg.
