Food
Cafe Serving Limited Menu during the Fair
A number of people have asked if Cafe Homestead will be open during the Fair. It will be open, including Sunday, however the only items on the menu all be: Hot Tea Hot Coffee Cinnamon Twists Dozen of specialty food items, drinks and desserts (to see the full menu click here) will be available in Food … Read more
Apple Cider, Pressed from Fresh Apples Straight out of the Orchards
Cider and Donuts: Where else can you get fresh-pressed hot apple cider! It’s worth standing in line for a steaming hot cup of this REAL apple juice. And while you’re nearby, pick up a few fresh apple cider donuts to go with it. Then sit awhile and watch how the cider press works. Mmmmm, delicious!
Shish Kabobs
We assembled 870 shish kabobs for the Fair yesterday. This is the jolly, energetic crew that helped us do it in just 4 hrs! The shish kabobs will be available in the Mediterranean food booth.
Apple Turnovers
We’re making pastries! In the last two days we’ve turned 150 lb. of (homemade) puff pastry dough & 160 lb. apples into 770 turnovers. Making puff pastry dough requires folding a layer of butter into a piece pastry dough, rolling it out thin, folding it in half twice, rolling it out again, repeat the folding and rolling out … Read more
French Fries By The Thousands
Today we started off with 4,000 pounds of white and sweet potatoes, which we then washed, cut and blanched. After they cooled we packed them into the walk in refrigerator to await Friday morning of the Fair! Of course, we ran a few through the fryer for test runs. It wasn’t hard to find willing taste testers. … Read more
Preparing French Fries
This weekend, Nov 22 & 23, is fondly called French Fry Weekend. On Saturday and Sunday, we will wash, punch & blanch 1500 pounds of sweet potato fries and 2500 pounds of white potato French fries….That’s 2 tons of fries!!!
We All Scream for Ice Cream!
We are now over halfway through making our home made ice cream for the Fair. We mix it up in individual batches and then freeze each one individually in our batch freezer. We supply ice cream all over the fairgrounds so you can have it with your cherry crisp, apple pie or donut. You can also have … Read more
BBQ Brisket: New For The 2014 Fair
We have a new food item on the list for this year’s Fair: Texas-style Barbecue Brisket. With 33 large briskets slotted to go into the smoker Thanksgiving week, (enough to serve about 1200 people), stop and get some fast before its all gone. But if you miss it at the Fair, be sure to swing by the … Read more
Homestead Farms: Preparations Are In Full Swing
Sorting through native, Texas pecans straight from our trees on the lower farmland in the Brazos River Valley, we’ll make 250 pounds of Seasoned Pecans to sale at the 2014 Fair. With 9 different flavors, 4,142 jars of jelly made from locally grown fruit is sure to be a hit with any one who likes fruit … Read more
