Taffy Pics!
We had our annual harvest festival at church Saturday - it’s one of the highlights of the year. I look forward to it almost more than anything else during the entire year! This year I brought 2 pies (Sour Cream and Raisin and Chocolate Espresso Pecan), 2 soups (Cream of Jalapeno and Broccoli Cheese), and some salt water taffy. [For the record, I don’t recommend chopping a chunk off your finger while preparing the veggies for the Jalapeno soup like I did…ouch!] I also brought a few things for the auction, including an embroidered blanket my mom made, a little over a half a pound of fresh-roasted coffee (from the Duhingekawa Women’s Coop) and a “coffee of the month club” (1/2 a pound of fresh roasted coffee every month for a year).
I’ll have to say: the Chocolate Espresso Pecan pie is absolutely wonderful. I definitely recommend giving it a try; this is the second year in a row I’ve taken it and it’s been the first or second to be completely gone both years! It’s especially satisfying since I have an incredibly horrible time getting pecan pies to turn out and this one always sets up perfectly!
Sour Cream and Raisin pie is an old-style pie - I gave it a new twist this time though by using a brown sugar meringue instead of a regular one (simply replace the white sugar with an equal amount of packed brown sugar - it really works!) It started to sweat by the time I took a picture, but I’m quite happy with how it turned out:
This year the “new thing” I wanted to try was the salt water taffy though. What a blast! I’ve made regular taffy before (with varying degrees of success) but every batch I’ve made with this turned out great - it’s practically fail proof! You can find the recipe here, and it’s small enough that you can pull it by yourself (although it makes around 90 pieces!) I thought I’d share some pics (from the third batch -the first was root beer, the second was butter rum and the third peppermint). Oh, and I used a full dram of candy flavoring not the recommended 1/4 dram — definitely a good choice.
If you every want to have a get together with some people and do something different - this would be a great group activity.
To top the evening off we raised almost $5000 for local charities and had a great night of food and fun! Wish you could have been there (I’ve only met a few of you in real life and would love to change that eventually) - maybe next time!
Grace and peace,
`tim
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