The perogie, a mashed potato-filled dumpling, is a toothsome addition to the menu of banquets and dinners held in Yorkton.

The Perogie Cup is hotly contested in Yorkton each year by Kinsmen hockey teams from across western Canada.

And now, Yorkton hopes to be in the Guiness Book of Records for making the world's largest perogie.

The Youth Committee of the Yorkton Spring Expo, chaired by Penny Sandercock, and the students of the Yorkton Regional High School and Sacred Heart High School took on the project as an added attraction to the spring show, which was held April 19 to 21.

The committee was assisted by the ladies of the parishes of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, St. Mary's Ukrainian Catholic Church and St Gerard's Roman Catholic Church in this project of making the World's Largest Perogie.

First, Elsie Bilan had to devise a recipe for this undertaking.

After that, the ladies of the three parishes peeled 300 pounds of potatoes and 10 pounds of onions. After those were cooked, five pounds of margarine were added while the potatoes and onions were mashed in a dough-making machine.

For the dough, the ladies mixed 40 kilograms of flour, three dozen eggs, and a half gallon of oil. Yeast, sugar, salt and water were added to make the dough.

At two o'clock on Friday, the second day of the Yorkton Spring Expo, the ingredients were transported to the Agriplex Convention Centre. Two large tables were placed together and the dough pulled and patted out, the filling added, and covered with additional dough.

The huge perogie was placed on a trolley and taken by truck to Harvest Meats, where it was baked in the smoke house facility.

At six o'clock , with great ceremony, the huge beautifully-browned perogie was wheeled into the Convention Centre.

Penny Sandercock, in front of the cameras of the media and a large audience, officially declared the perogie to be 6 feet 8 inches long and 3 feet 9 inches wide, and a hefty 361 pounds in weight.

These statistics , along with the videos and photographs by the media will be forwarded, along with official documents, to the Guiness Book of Records.

The perogie was cut into portions and served to those who were there, and who will, in the future, be able to say they had a taste of the world's largest perogie in Yorkton in April of 2001.