The strawberry festival
I didn't get to the market in time to buy strawberries, so I stopped by the First English Lutheran's Strawberry Festival. Eastern Shore strawberries were going for the market price of $5.
There was a bake sale as well, with these charming strawberry iced cookies. They didn't seem to be selling very well considering the festival was going to end in half an hour. I felt like telling them the secret to successful bake sales -- gee, they would have really appreciated that. I learned it in my daughter's toddler co-op. ...
We all love the idea of bake sales that sell interesting homemade goodies like mocha cake with caramel icing. But what the autocratic ruler of our co-op insisted on was that everyone bake either chocolate chip cookies or brownies and package them in threes. She believed those two sweets were the only ones that were guaranteed sellers. It used to drive me crazy because it was so boring, but she was absolutely right. We never had a crumb left over.
Also they were selling strawberry shortcake at the festival. I like the proportion of whipped cream to strawberries. And I think the sprinkles are an interesting innovation.
Comments
Jimmies? On strawberry shortcake? The next thing you'll be telling me is that they used fake non-dairy whipped "cream".
Posted by: Lissa | May 17, 2008 3:55 PM
Oh, I'd have bought the cookies if I had only known. I love things like that.
But the packing in lots of three is a well known device to push sales.
Posted by: Rosebud | May 18, 2008 4:58 PM
I hate to have to miss even a day on the blog because upon return there is so much good stuff to catch up on. Wanted you to know about my experience with local strawberries. Was on the shore for about a week and bought strawberries at a pick your own site in Selbyville, Delaware and from a Harrie Tweeter. They were both terrible. They looked and smelled wonderful but both were watery and tasteless. I guess this is not the year for local berries.
Posted by: Regina | May 31, 2008 12:44 PM