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Small Inns Share Apple Pie Recipes to Bake at Home

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Good news for bakers and lovers of Apple Pie. During shelter in place, over three dozen inns dotting the U.S. and beyond are coming together to offer a slice of comfort with recipes for baked apple goods that quarantined travelers can make at home to celebrate National Apple Pie Day.  If you’re like me, I am doing more cooking and baking at home than I have done in years during this COVID-19 lockdown.

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A selection of Apple Pie Recipes is now available from Small Inns around the world.

Inns, beds and breakfast and boutique hotels across the world are sending some sweet messages to guests across the web and baking in some comfort, as part of a new ‘Wish You Were Here’ digital postcard campaign. Each postcard features a photo of an apple pie, edible apple roses, baked apple, or other apple treat, as a way to mark National Apple Pie Day on May 13.

Swedish Apple Pie

Swedish Apple Pie made with gluetin free flour from the Americus Garden Inn Bed and Breakfast

The collection of recipes offers something for every taste. There’s even a special Swedish Apple Pie recipe from the Americus Garden Inn Bed and Breakfast that is gluetin free.

“We miss our guests,” said Tamara Ehlin, owner of The Forsyth B&B in Kingston, New York, whose postcard features a mouthwatering apple tart. “Innkeepers aren’t inclined to ‘social distance,’ so this has been a very difficult time on many fronts.”

Apple Pie Italian recipe

An Italian version of Apple Pie: torta di mele.

“If the travelers can’t come to us, we’ll go to the travelers,” said Samanta Franzetti, innkeeper at the Al Nifontano B&B in Varese, Italy. Al Nifontano’s digital postcard features an exquisite Italian torta di mele, aka apple pie.

The move comes as a way to ‘digitally un-distance’ and forge a connection with the travelers that the inns so wish could be sitting across the table, not on the other side of a computer screen. Many of the properties involved are presently closed, as mandated by their states, because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Each bed and breakfast, inn, and boutique hotel is monitoring the news – nationally and specific to their local area and will begin to welcome guests as soon as reasonably appropriate.

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Apple Huckleberry Pie from the Gibson Mansion B& B is one of the more intriguing recipes from the small inns.

As the shelter-in-place orders remain, the independent lodging industry, as many others, has suffered unprecedented financial hardships. Property owners have had to contend with the loss of income and the anxiousness over the loss of their home – since many owners live on the premises too.

All of the participating properties are part of STILL INN BUSINESS, a preparedness campaign that launched earlier this month in a show of camaraderie to help these small business owners stay visible in the travel and hospitality space and boost economic optimism. The pro bono campaign has upward of 260 members and continues to grow daily.

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The “Wish You Were Here” campaign shares digital postcards with guests.

All 42 recipes, images of postcards, food photos, and property photos are available online and  upon request.  thanks to the the 41 properties (+1 lodging association)  for sharing their delicious recipes for Apple Pies!

Tiffany’s B&B in Bismarck, AR

Moonshine Apple Pie

 Stanford Inn and Resort in Mendocino, CA

Vegan Dutch Apple Cobbler

 Dancing Moon B&B in Clifton, CO

Deconstructed Apple Pie

The Miller-Dunham House in Odessa, DE

Oatmeal Crusted Apple Crisp Pie

 Carriage Way Inn in St. Augustine, FL

Easy Peasy Apple-Cinnamon Pie

 Americus Garden Inn in Americus, GA

Swedish Apple Pie

 Al Nifontano B&B in Varese, ITALY

Torta di Mele 

 Georges on York B&B in Taneytown, MD

Apple Cranberry Casserole

 Captain Swift Inn in Camden, ME

Old Fashioned Apple Pie

 Timbercliffe Cottage Inn in Camden, ME

Sugar-Free Apple & Raspberry Galette

 The Leonard at Logan House B&B in Grand Rapids, MI

Apple Roses

 Prairieside Suites Luxury B&B in Grandville, MI

Crystalized Apple Pie

 A G Thomson House B&B in Duluth, MN

Whole Apple Pie

 Gibson Mansion B&B in Missoula, MT

Apple Huckleberry Pie

 1899 Wright Inn & Carriage House in Asheville, NC

Apple Pie Muffins

 At Cumberland Falls B&B Inn in Asheville, NC

Apple Pie Cookies

 Engadine Inn and Cabins in Asheville, NC

Baked Apple with Vegan Granola

 Pinecrest B&B in Asheville, NC

Apple Hand Pies

 Sweet Biscuit Inn in Asheville, NC

Sweet B Apple Pie

 The Lion and the Rose B&B in Asheville, NC

Apple Cinnamon Bourbon Pie 

 Wildberry Lodge in Leicester, NC

Apple Pie

 Highland Lake Inn and Andover Barn in Andover, NH

Spiced Apple Loaf

 The Glynn House In Ashland, NH

Orange Ginger Apple Cobbler

 Dreamcatcher B&B in Taos, NM

Green Chile Apple Pie with a Taos Twist  

 Hudson Valley Lodging Association in Hudson Valley, NY

Baked Apple Strudel Pie

 Caldwell House B&B in Salisbury Mills, NY

Dena’s Apple Pie

 The Forsyth B&B in Kingston, NY

Apple Tart

 Chehalem Ridge B&B in Newberg, OR

Crustless Apple Pie

 Old Parkdale Inn B&B in Parkdale, OR

Apple Pie Cookies

 Heceta Lighthouse B&B in Yachats, OR

Apple Strudel

 Historic Smithton Inn in Ephrata, PA

Shoo Fly Pie

 Twin Pine Manor in Ephrata, PA

Apple Crumble Pie

 Carriage Corner Bed & Breakfast in Intercourse, PA

Mini Apple Tarts

 BF Hiestand House B&B in Marietta, PA

Open-Face Apple Pie

 Grape Arbor B&B in North East, PA

Cran Apple Pie

 Brownstone Colonial Inn in Reinholds, PA

Fresh Apple Pie

 Artist’s Inn in Terre Hill, PA

Apple Cream Pie

 Summer Creek Inn in Rapid City, SD

Apple Slab Pie with Crumb Top

 Blisswood B&B in Cat Spring, TX

Best Ever Apple Streusel Pie

 Walker Manor in Gladewater, TX

Texas Baked Apple Pie

 The Rosevine Inn in Tyler, TX

American Apple Pie

 Strong House Inn in Vergennes, VT

Individual Baked Apple Pie

 Miller Tree Inn in Forks, WA

Welsh Apple Pi

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