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Greetings!
QuarkFEST, our big fall festival, is just a couple of weeks away, and we can't hardly wait. You can view the complete schedule of events here, or scroll down for details on the day's food workshops, main festival events, and the barn movie we're showing at the end of the festival.
See you at QuarkFEST!
Mary
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COMING COLUMBUS WEEKEND! 2nd Annual QuarkFESTIVAL
October 9 / Food Workshops 10:30 - 12 / Main Events 12 - 4 / Barn Movie 4 - 6
at Brookford Farm
In just a couple of weeks we're getting together with a bunch of artisans, musicians, local chefs, farmer-auteurs, entertainers of all stripes, and hundreds of our closest friends at the Second Annual QuarkFEST. The food will be delicious, the games will be ridiculous, the leaves will be gorgeous, and the company will be great. Now all we need is you!
With Musical Guests
The Fiddling Thomsons
Mill City Ramblers Deep Hole Road
Localvore Food Workshops (click here for details)
Home Cheesemaking
Parent-Child Baking Workshop
Lacto-Fermented Sauerkraut
Win Prizes
Gift certificates to celebrated localvore restaurants like Beach Pea Bakery, Black Bean Cafe, Blue Moon Evolution, Flatbread, and Street365
Toys from Noggin Factory
Seed collections from High Mowing Organic Seeds
Coffee from Red Rover Coffee
Museum passes to the Dover Children's Museum and Strawbery Banke
Organic gift baskets and trial CSA shares from Brookford Farm
For Kids of All Ages
Hayrides
Arts & Crafts with Tidewater Waldorf School
Games with White Pine Outdoor School
Hay maze
Face-painting
Pumpkin carving
Cake walk
The crowning of many Quark Queens
Bobbing for kohlrabi
Cow-pie bingo
Puppet shows
Local Chef Quark Cooking Competition Featuring:
Black Bean Cafe
Flatbread
Henry's Market
Matt Anderson
The Kitchen
Pepperland Cafe
Squash Blossom Farm
Street 360
Vendors
White Heron Tea
Judy's Jams & Jelly
Mrs. Beasley's Dog Treats Hickory Nut Farm Benny's Best Olive Spread Pasquale's Sauce We're still looking for volunteers to help out before, during, and after the festival, and there's a little room left for more sponsors, chefs, and vendors. If you know someone who might be interested, please send them our way. Thanks! |
Special Thanks to QuarkFEST Sponsors!
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Savory Quark Tart
with Sorrel Custard Topping
1 lb. German quark
1 cup ricotta
1/4 lb. cheddar cheese, grated
3 eggs (plus another for the topping)
1 bunch dill, chopped
1/2 teaspoon salt
butter for the pan
1 bunch sorrel
1 pint cream, divided
1 cup fine breadcrumbs
Pre-heat the oven to 375 degrees. In a food processor or by hand with a wooden spoon, beat together the quark, ricotta, cheddar, 3 of the eggs, dill, salt, and 1/2 cup of the cream. It's all right if some small lumps remain, but do your best to get a smooth batter. Butter the inside of a springform pan, dust it with the breadcrumbs, and then pour the batter into the pan. In a food processor or blender, puree the sorrel and the remaining cream, along with the extra egg for the custard topping. Pour this topping over the cheesecake, and bake for about half an hour, or until the center is jiggly but firm. (It is not necessary to prepare a water-bath for this cheesecake.) Serve at room temperature.
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Can you bake a cake for Brookford Farm?
We're hosting a cake walk as a fundraiser during QuarkFEST and are looking for donations of Quark Cakes to give out as prizes. Send us an email to let us know you'd like to bake, and we'll be happy to give you the quark you need.
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Richtiger Kaesekuchen
German Cheesecake with Streusel
This recipe for a sweet cheesecake comes from one of the best quark cake bakers we know, Antje McKee-Courcy. We loved this cake at last year's QuarkFEST. She may be baking it again for our Cake Walk...
For the streusel:
2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
9 tablespoons butter
For the filling:
1 cup apple sauce
12 tablespoons butter
1/2 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
zest of one lemon
1 tablespoon lemon juice
2 eggs
1 lb German quark
1 envelope vanilla pudding powder
(like Dr Oetker's)
confectioners' sugar for dusting
Preheat the oven to 400 F. Mix flour and sugar. Melt the butter. Add the vanilla to the melted butter and pour into the flour sugar mixture. Mix everything together with your hands until you get a "streusel" texture. Then dust with reserved 2 tablespoons of flour. Prepare a 10" spring form with baking spray or butter. Press 2/3 of the streusel mixture to the bottom of the prepared spring form. Spread the apple sauce on top of the pressed streusel mixture. In the bowl of a mixer, beat the softened butter until light and fluffy. Add the sugar, vanilla, lemon zest, and lemon juice. Mix until well blended. Add the eggs one at a time making sure that the previous egg is blended in before adding the next one. Mix everything until light and fluffy. Add the quark and vanilla pudding. Spread the cheese mixture on top of the apple sauce. Sprinkle the remaining streusel around the edge of the cake. Bake for 45-50 minutes. Let cool and take the spring form off. Dust with the confectioners' sugar.
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Now Taking Orders for Pasture-Raised Roasting Chickens, 1/2-Pigs, and Sides of Beef
Pasture-Raised Pork $5/lb hanging weight, which is usually about 100 lbs. Comes to you vacuum-sealed and frozen. View our available custom cuts here. Call Luke at (603) 742-4084 to order.
Grass-Fed Sides of Beef Sides of beef cost $6/lb, hanging weight. Total hanging weight is usually about 300 lbs., 60% of which is meat. Comes to you frozen in conveniently sized vacuum-sealed packages. Most delicious beef you've ever had, grass-fed, raised on certified organic pasture. Call Luke at 603/742-4084 to order. Whole Roasting Chickens Incredibly flavorful, ethically impeccable. Don't want to roast a whole bird in the oven? Just download this handy instructions sheet for cutting a whole chicken into parts, and you're set to go for braising, grilling, or frying. Email Mary to order. |
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Keep in Touch
Our website features still more information, photos and news. You can also follow us on twitter and 'like' us on facebook. If you'd rather see us in person, we host many free events at the farm all year long - from Christmas pageants to barn dances. See you out at the farm! |
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The Harvest Moon
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It is the Harvest Moon! On gilded vanes
And roofs of villages, on woodland crests
And their aerial neighborhoods of nests
Deserted, on the curtained window-panes
Of rooms where children sleep, on country lanes
And harvest-fields, its mystic splendor rests!
Gone are the birds that were our summer guests,
With the last sheaves return the laboring wains!
All things are symbols: the external shows
Of Nature have their image in the mind,
As flowers and fruits and falling of the leaves;
The song-birds leave us at the summer's close,
Only the empty nests are left behind,
And pipings of the quail among the sheaves.
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