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Puester > wrote:
> Melba's Jammin' wrote:
> > Tomorrow morning I will deliver my baked entries to the Nice Ladies at
> > the Minnesota State Fair fairgrounds.
> >
> > In theory, I will enter a chocolate Bundt? cake, an apple pie, a mixed
> > berry pie, girl brownies, white bread, boy brownies, PB cookies, CC
> > cookies, and fruit muffins.
>
> You are SUCH an overachiever! How many jams/pickles did you enter this
> year?
Twenty. The max for canning. Jams, jellies, pickles, relishes,
vegetables. I think the only category I didn't do was fruit -- one of
my jars of apricots didn't seal so I scratched that.
Anny Middon calls us ribbon whores. We decided we're ribbon sluts
because there's not much money in it. . . .
> Dang, that's frustrating. It happens when you have too much on your
> mind. (I've made three batches of (bought) apricot jam this year and
> every time I have forgotten to add the dried apricots (OK, once I just
> couldn't find the pkg.)
Hell of it is that I was paying such close attention to other parts of
it all. Whisking, blahblahblah. But you're right; I've a lot on my
mind.
>
> As always, "choose Melba's" and blue ribbon vibes heading to the Nice
> Ladies on your behalf.
Thanks. The apple pie looks pretty darned good. Lola better watch her
back. (Lola Nebel, Pie Queen of the Fair.) I'm not holding my breath
or anything ‹ I make a fine apple pie and I've never entered the lot
before. Her Raspberry Pear Pie went for $250 at the Foundation auction
on Thursday night. My basket of canned goods went for the same. Joe
Soucheray, local radio-newspaper guy bought it and said we'll auction it
off on the day that I'm with him at the Fair. BTW, Lola is a lovely,
warm, and gracious woman. Rob and I sat with her and her husband at the
soiree Thursday evening.
We've a birthday party to attend an hour away tonight. The cookies are
looking more and more like a no-show.
White bread is in the pans and rising.
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-Barb, Mother Superior, HOSSSPoJ
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