Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
The Local Scene
M/C James Carhart with pie baking 2nd place winner Shelby Donnel and her son Simon, 3rd place winner Lynda Knowlton and 1st place winner Kelli Knapp. The Pie Baking contest sponsored by The Loop newspaper was held on Sunday, Oct. 8.
Alissa Bernal, 7, of Bakersfield communes with Windswept Farms' alpaca Gidget at the Apple Festival. She visited Tehachapi with her mom and dad Angelica and Francisco and brother Gerardo, 14.
Samir Algazali and his son Alabbuss, 15, a student at Tehachapi High School, checking out the sailplane on display at the Apple Festival. They were accompanied by little sister Azihaar, 11 months, and Mrs. Algazali. The family moved to Tehachapi from Yemen a year ago.
First place winner of the 15 entry's in the Car Show went to this red colored 1959 GMC DF 860 truck owned by Bear Valley resident Tom Siembieda.
This year's apple bobbers Jimmy Winder, Makayla Chasten, and first timer two-year-old Eathen Chasten try hard to get a bite from their spinning apple. Winner with only one bite after two minutes was Jimmy Winder who was visiting from Ridgecrest.
The String Along Marionette Theatre was at the Apple Festival. David SteeleReed brought the lil red wagon stage and performed his Fall Variety Show! Featuring his Marionettes!
Winner of the pie eating contest was a young man from Bakersfield.
Nothing better than a Tehachapi apple at the Apple Festival, Stephanie Byrd (pictured) helped man the American Legion Auxiliary booth.
Kelli Knapp's award winning pie recipe
Crust: 5 cup flour, 3 tsp salt, 1 egg, 1 cup water, and 2 cups Crisco (from can not oil).
Mix all dry ingredients together, add egg and water mixture to dry ingredients, knead well all ingredients, cut into 5 cubes, each cube is a crust. Makes 5 crusts.
Filling: 8 to 10 Fuji apples, 2 teaspoons cinnamon, 2 cups brown sugar, 4 tablespoons butter, and squirt bottle of Caramel sauce
Mix apples, cinnamon and brown sugar together. Put this mixture into bottom crust. On top of filling dab with the butter, and squirt in circles the caramel sauce, apply top crust and bake for 15 minutes at 400 degrees. Reduce heat to 350 and continue to bake for an additional 45 to 50 minutes.
Kelli said the pie crust is a secret family recipe, and this is her first time entering it in a contest.
