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This week at the Market:
Apples, Corn, Farm Fresh Eggs,
 Peppers, Salad Greens, and Watermelon

In This Issue
Ice Cream Social for Kelly Funk
Market Trivia
Vendors at This Week's Market
Facebook and Twitter
Vendor Profile: The Apple Works
Recipe: Grammy's Apple Pie
Ice Cream for Kelly

Come one, come all, for a very tasty way to support Kelly Funk!   Artisano's Oils and Spices will sell gourmet ice cream sundaes this Saturday, 10:00-12:30, or until the ice cream runs out.

Each sundae will feature ice cream from H2O Sushi and your choice of Artisano's delicious infused balsamic vinegars as toppings.  Sundaes are just $2 per serving, and all proceeds will go to Kelly and John.

Thank you to David and his staff for organizing the ice cream social. BRFM will continue to accept cash or check donations at the info booth this Saturday. 
Answer to Last Week's 
Trivia Question:  

Apples originated in Kazakhistan, in the southern, mountainous region near the Chinese border.

  apples - various  
 

Market Trivia


How many flowers must honey bees tap
to make one pound of honey?
Grammy's Apple Pie
 
   Apple Pie  
 
See right for the recipe!  
 
 Musical Guest: Jared Rust
Don't forget to stop by the entertainment booth and catch a few songs by Jared Rust
 
As always, the entertainment is provided at no cost to the BRFM.  If you like what you hear, please consider purchasing a CD and/or leaving a tip.
Vendors at this Week's Market

To view a map of the vendors' locations, click here. Visit the BRFM website or stop by the BRFM Info Booth to see a complete list of vendors. 
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Fans on Facebook and Twitter
You can also find the latest news, share your recipes and photos, start a discussion, and join the other 1,097 fans on our Facebook page: Broad Ripple Farmers Market.

You can also follow BRFM on Twitter @BRfarmersmarket. Tell us about what you like, who you saw, your dog's favorite tidbits.
 
Both are great ways to keep in touch with the BRFM. Thanks to everyone for tweeting on Saturdays.
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Vol. 14  No. 22
Sept 1, 2010
With more than 50 local vendors, you'll find just about everything you need at the Broad Ripple Farmers Market (BRFM). We are open rain or shine, every Saturday from May 1 through November 20, from 8:00 a.m. until 12:30 p.m.
 
We're in the same 
great location for 2010:  behind Broad Ripple Magnet High School for the Arts & Humanities, 1115 Broad Ripple Avenue 
 
About the Market
Market Master: Barbara Wilder 
Newsletter Coordinator: Elizabeth Crist Darby
Vendor Profile: The Apple Works
The Apple Works is foremost dedicated to growing and providing high quality apples, as well as other fruit superior in taste and texture to that available in the grocery store. Attending to details overlooked by others in their orchards and picking at peak flavor, rather than allowing apples to ripen in storage, allows The Apple Works to provide you the best tasting apple possible.

At the market you will find a variety of seasonal apples, produce and tasty treats.  Or plan a road trip and visit the orchard and country store, located near the border of Johnson and Brown
Counties, nestled on gently rolling hills dotted with ponds and pockets of woods.

Visit their website, www.apple-works.com  for more information, maps and their Pick the Perfect Apple system and Apple Works Top 10 list.
Grammy's Apple Pie
I come from a pie family, fruit pie to be specific.  And while peach is my absolute favorite, I firmly believe that apple pie is the ultimate comfort food.  But it has to be my Grammy's apple pie . . . homemade crust, loads of fresh, tender apples and cinnamon, but no other spices.  Shortly before she passed away, I spent a weekend with her, practicing my pie making skills to ensure the tradition would not be lost (nevermind that I'd been baking with her since I was three).  After making, mixing, and rolling out 50 crusts, she decided I was a master.  Years later, I still make pie the way my Grammy taught me, and it's just as good as I remember.

The filling for 1 (9")  apple pie.  Double the filling recipe for 2 pies.

Ingredients:

8-10 baking apples
3 T flour
1 C sugar (you may want to use a little more sugar if you are using Granny Smith apples
or if your apples are really tart)
1 t cinnamon
3 T unsalted butter

Directions:
  1. Combine the dry ingredients thoroughly
  2. Peel and core the apples
  3. Slice the apples into even wedges and  toss them with the dry ingredient mixture
The pastry for 2 apple pies (9" pans)
If making one pie, roll out the other pastry, roll in waxed paper and aluminum foil, and freeze. These are great crusts for all fruit pies.

Ingredients:
3 C flour
1 t salt (use a table salt, not kosher)
1 C Crisco (do not experiment with other shortenings; they will NOT be the same)
2/3 C cold water plus 1 T cold water

Directions:

  1. Combine the dry ingredients thoroughly.  Add the Crisco.  Then using a fork or pasty fork, combine the dry ingredients and Crisco until the resulting meal is pea sized or finer
  2. Add the water and mix thoroughly and quickly.
  3. Divide into four portions. At this point, you can refrigerate the pastry and roll it out later
  4. When ready to bake, dust a pastry board or counter with flour.  Roll out one piece of the dough into a circle that is slightly larger than  the pie pan you will use.
  5. Repeat for the remaining dough, rolling out one piece at a time
Assemble the Pie
  1. Line pie tin with 1  pastry circle, fill it with the apple mixture and dot pie with 3 T butter.
  2. Cut 3 small slits (steam vents) into one of the other prepared crusts. Place on top of the apples and  center.  Edges should hang over the pan slightly.
  3. Tuck the top crust under the bottom crust gently and then  crimp or pinch  the edges together.
  4. Brush little milk over the pie and sprinkle generously with sugar.
  5. Bake in a preheated oven at 425 degrees F for 15-20 minutes.
  6. Then, without removing the pie from the oven, reduce temperature to 350 and bake for 30-35 minutes.
Pie tips:
You may want to place the pies on cookie sheets or line the oven with heavy-duty aluminum foil.

In the event the pie juices run.  If the pie browns to quickly on top cover lightly with foil and finish baking.

Fruit pie is an acceptable breakfast option, according to my grammy, as long as you also have a slice of cheese or a glass of milk on the side.