09.03.2006
Day Two of the Fair
Last night Jessebear came home and baked her carrot coconut loaf cake and oatmeal craisin chocolate chip cookies. Then Bubba baked her apple pie, white chocolate lemon-scented tollhouse cookies and orange-scented tollhouse cookies. She was done by 3AM. I got my carrot coconut loaf cake in the oven by 5 AM and woke Boy up. He felt I was being unreasonable in requesting that he stage his recipes (mix up the chocolate chip cookie dough, get the brownie ingredients ready and prepare his pans so that when it was time to bake he could just blow through it) while I finished baking, so he went back to bed in a huff. I finished my peanut butter cookies and got the children and entries over to the fair by 8:45 AM.
Jesse and I did not place at all with our carrot coconut loaf cake. Boohoo. Bubba, on the other hand, got 1st for her apple pie. And, the Baking Committee has asked that she submit her recipe (as she created it entirely herself) - it is in contention for next year's special contest! Neither Bubba's nor Jessebear's cookies placed, but they did both sell. My cookies placed 2nd.
It rained off and on today - raw, wet, miserable. Bad day for the fair. The children spent the day in the dairy barn, I came home, made cream of carrot soup, French Canadian Tourtiere and my pound cake. Yes, I actually made it tonight instead of early tomorrow morning - this is the one baked good which is better after sitting for several hours.
We again have an extra child staying the night - they'll be going to the fair bright and early tomorrow.
Jessebear is so bummed - she was going to watch her new boyfriend do the tractor pull as well as team wood chop with her friend Veronica - but those events got moved to tomorrow because of the rain - and she has to work tomorrow.
Can you tell that we are so into the fair?
posted by shadowlands @ 12:16 AM
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3 Comments:
I love your postings on the fair. All this baking, you must be exhausted woman! :)
What is a French Canadian Tourtiere? It sounds delicious..
A French Canadian Tourtiere is a 'spiced pork pie'. Either ground pork - or my variation, chopped pork loin, sauteed, then simmered with finely diced onions, garlic, cubed potatoes and carrots and seasoned with savory and ground cloves. Once the pork and veggies are tender, you take the remaining liquid, flour and make a gravy, then toss the whole mess into a pastry line pie plate, top with pie crust and bake until golden brown and the juices are bubbling out. Good fall or winter food.
OH.MY! So its like a pot pie. It sounds yummy. Will give it a whirl when it cools off around here.
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