I felt like I was at the largest bake sale in the history of mankind. I have never seen so many "homemade" sweets in my life.
Large ovens lined one wall and work tables in front of them covering the floor. Beyond this were floor and upright open coolers filled with cream pies and cheesecakes. Another large area had walls with shelves filled with homemade breads, rolls, even for hot dogs and burgers. Cookies rolled, formed or cut into bars. Donuts raised or cake, filled or not, pastries, sticky buns and two dozen varieties of fruit pies.
Cakes to be purchased whole, half or a nice large slice. Cake rolls filled to the brim, chocolate or pumpkin whoopie pies ( where I grew up we call them gobs ), lemon or other fruit bars. Bagels, zucchini, banana or other fruit or whole grained breads. Shoo-Fly pie, brownies or cinnamon twirls, they also have sugar free products.
All of the vendors in this Farmer's market, that I witnessed anyway, have a simple cash drawer and add everything with paper and pencil. No list of what they sell here, but you can check out their website which does have a partial list of their baked goods @ www.amishmarketpa.com or http://www.newtownfarmersmarket.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi?page=riehls_bakery
This Pa. Dutch, Amish Farmer's market is only open Thursday through Saturday, we first went on a Saturday a few hours before they were getting ready to close. Knowing they will be closed for the next four days, they allow items to run low or out. Our selection was still quite good, but I do believe the products would have been fresher on Thursday, which we will find out this week.
I bought quite a bit here, even though hubby is the one with the sweet tooth. The gobs were moist and okay for flavor, next time I will try the pumpkin ones. I have made gobs since I was a kid and putting one cup of hot strong coffee in the chocolate batter makes a world of difference instead of adding hot water, plus I have a cooked filling, where they used a whipped cream type of filling.
The lemon bars were tangy and sprinkled with powdered sugar and hit the palate the way they were meant to, the crust was like a shortbread cookie and were not skimpy with the lemon filling, very good.
The pumpkin bread was much better than the carrot cake, both were moist, but the carrot cake lacked in spices, nuts and raisins. The German chocolate cake was moist and the flavor was good, but I tend to add a lot more filling to mine.
I'm anxious to try much more, like the beautiful apple dumplings, sticky buns or cinnamon rolls and hubby made me put back the Key lime pie, which was what I really wanted, next time I will get it for sure. He can be such a brat. read more