The Elegant Farmer has quite a wholesale operation and their pies are available at more than a few grocery stores close to Wisconsin. We once sent apple pies as Thanksgiving gifts to Massachusetts, but that gets mighty expensive because they ship outside Wisconsin by second-day air...and the pies are heavy. Their crust is more like a sugar cookie--very sweet, as is the pie itself. It does bake up quite crunchy...but is nearly impossible to get out of the pan. They use aluminum pie pans, which get stuck to the bag by the bubbling filling and the expanding crust edge. When you cut them (the suggestion on the box is to use an electric knife) you invariably slice right through the pan. We're never able to get 'beauty slices', but the resulting blob on the plate is still quite tasty. The bubbling filling also permeates the sugar of the pie crust, so the edges of the pie can be tooth breakers. We hope this blog inspires you to give it a go yourself, sans the mess and blobs (tasty as they were)! ~Jessica

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