Mined from the notebooks and adapted from the Twitter feed and Facebook news feed, Tuesday, August 18, 2020. Posted Sunday morning, September 6.
Ain’t she a peach? Mrs M at Lakeside Farms, Tuesday, August 18, 2020.
Another note from the Department of In Search of Lost Time, by way of catching up with my August blogging:
Just back from another long explore. This one took us back out to Lakeside Farms again, and of course we had to stop in for pie and...peaches!
Not coincidentally, we picked up a peach pie.
A proper social distance to our left, a cheerful old couple in their seventies waited at the counter with us. He was white-haired, tall, taller than I am, but bent over his cane; still looking trim and dapper in a brown and white plaid shirt and sand-colored shorts, white socks pulled up to his knees. She was short, came up to his chest, blonde, all in denim blue. Both wore white cloth masks. They were buying vegetables. He eyed our pie box as the cashier set in on the counter. “What time should we come over?” he said.
“Anytime,” I answered. “We’ll be home all afternoon.”
When we finished cracking ourselves up, he asked what kind of pie we were buying. He approved our choice heartily. I asked him what kind they were getting.
“No pie today,” he said with not totally mock-disappointment. “Just the vegetables, I’m afraid.” He sounded as if we’d be disappointed to hear it. I was. “I’m sorry for providing the temptation,” I said, and again, I was. He and his wife paid and left chuckling. Well, he was chuckling. His wife was just giving him one of those looks.
Our turn to pay. There was something I was curious about. The sign out front of the market advertised “Night Orchard Peaches”. I asked the counter woman who was taking care of us---a sturdy, broad-shoulder blonde in her forties with a confidently smiling expression behind her mask and glasses---what “Night Orchard Peaches” are. I was wondering if they were a kind that were best picked at night or ripened overnight. Turns out they come from an orchard on a nearby farm owned by a family named Night. Live and learn.
Peach pie was one of Mrs M's specialties back in her baking days. She won awards! Sadly, these days pie baking is still beyond her. But the Lake Side Farm pie, made with Night Orchard Peaches I’m assuming, will probably do.
Filed under Sketches from the Album. Related post: "Liberals Bake Here".
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