The Iverk show

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After the bread round  moved incredibly quickly last Saturday. As one car did the bread round, the other stacked lots and lots and lots of bread into a car and headed off to Piltown and the Iverk show. For years, the Iverk show has been a fixture in this family’s diary. We brought massive marrows to the biggest marrow competition only to discover that our marrow was actually quite small.  We brought decorated cup cakes that actually got to second place. We battled in the Scone and brown bread section and only were successful in the novelty breads with our weird and wonderful yeast breads that have since mutated into the ever popular Stromboli. We wondered the show in amazement every year, loved the cattle section, the multitude of stands and the horse riding competitions. One year we even brought our incredibly badly trained dog to the dog show and regularly show our much better behaved chickens in the poultry tend. Competitions were entered and prices were won and a great day was had every year. This year, however, the car was too full with bread to bring the chickens and – thankfully – the dogs. This year we moved from exhibitor and buyer to seller and took up our stall in the food tent. Between Highbank farm and the Inistioge Food company,  we settled very comfortably to chat and sample every one else’ wares. The driver cider went down very well, the Irish craft ale marinade sorted that nights dinner and both come highly recommended. We met all the other bread bakers and saw that we all have our own little niche. We had challenging discussion with old home bakers who came to the stall, saying they never buy bread and tested our knowledge and our skill. When your product is a one day product, there always moments when you panic and see yourself bringing it all home again, but in Iverk we sold steadily over the day and all those people who said they’d be back later actually came back and we sold it all. A great feeling, a great day and lots more new customers to bake for in the coming weeks. What a fantastic show it was again with one of the final perfect summer’s days in the bargain. We will definitely be back next year – maybe with a trailor and the chickens and the dog……… and the marrows and the eggs and a keen eye on every competitions. Watch this space