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Morning Call: Apple Days & Market To Go at Bethlehem’s Burnside Plantation: Pick up tasty treats from pies to dumplings (and more)
September 8th, 2020 | In The News
Written by Jennifer Sheehan for The Morning Call
Let me tempt you for a moment: Impossibly flaky apple pie, dumplings stuffed with sweet apple filling and sugary apple cider doughnut holes.
You can pick up any (or all) of this autumnal goodness at the 7th Annual Apple Days & Market To Go, Sept. 21 to Sept. 27 at Bethlehem’s Burnside Plantation.
Historic Bethlehem Museums & Sites, which has hosted Apple Days for the past six years, revamped this year’s event, offering a pandemic-safe market during the week and smaller, in-person activities and events on the weekend.
Here’s the rundown and some highlights:
Market to Go:
When: Noon to 6 p.m. Sept. 21 to Sept. 25
How it works: You can pre-order your tasty treats through the Historic Bethlehem Museums & Sites’ new online store. When you order, you specify when you’d like to pick up.
Here’s some of what you can order:
Tomblers Bakery (Easton): Apple pie (crumb topping), $15; and apple tart, $5;
The Bakery Nook (Coplay): Apple strudel, $12; and apple dumpling, $6; apple cider doughnut holes, $7
The Bake-A-Re (Danielsville): Gluten-free apple cranberry crumb pie bites (a dozen): $11
And a host of other apple and fall baking items and gifts.
To order: store.historicbethlehem.org/
In-person
When: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sept. 26 and 27
How it works: You need to purchase in advance for a specific, 90-minute time slot. Masks are required.
Tickets: $3 for adults, $3 for children including a take-home craft and activity bag for the kids.
What’s in store:
You can look over items from favorite regional crafters and gourmet food vendors and take home a few things such as apple pie, strudel, dumplings, apple cider, apple salsa and ready-to-plant perennials. As you shop, you can listen to local acoustic musicians.
Timed tours of the barns and grounds will be offered, including history of the apple orchard that hosts 12 antique American apple trees, including four Roxbury russet trees that date back to 1635, the oldest American apple tree still being grown today.
Watch demonstrations of the colonial cider press.
Culinary contests: Watch amateur bakers, adults and kids, vie for the top prize in the Apple Dessert Culinary Contest, which will be judged by representatives from the Young Chefs Academy of Allentown. Kids’ contest will be held at 10:30 a.m. Sept. 26 and adults at 11 a.m. (To find out more about entering: https://historicbethlehem.org/)
Big Apple Cocktail: Enjoy a 5-oz. glass of The Big Apple Cocktail, featuring Penna Dutch Apple Pie Liqueur, cranberry juice, and a splash of ginger ale from Xplorer Spirits.
Cost: $8. (Note: This is in addition to your admission ticket. You’ll also have to choose a time slot).
Burnside Plantation is at 1461 Schoenersville Road, Bethlehem. Weekend parking will be at St. Luke’s Sports Medicine & Rehabilitation Center, 1441 Schoenersville Road.
Info: historicbethlehem.org
