'Savory' entrant wins best overall at Farm Museum pie fest

This Chocolate Silken Tofu pie didn't place, but if looks like it was a winner nonetheless.. (Lebanon Voice photo)

MILTON - Bill Sugg of Effingham, whose Mushroom Crust Florentine pie was the lone "Savory" entry in the New Hampshire Farm Museum's Great New Hampshire Pie Festival, took home Best of Show beating out dozens of apple, cream and other fruit pies baked by commercial and home bakers.

The festival, which was held Sept. 25, saw some 40 pies entered, with Sugg winning the Louise Hoage Memorial Prize for best pie overall.

Hoage was a longtime perennial winner in the event up until her death last year at the age of 92. She left a bequest to the museum to help fund educational programs.

Other winners were as follows:

Apple pie: Holly Noones of York Harbor, Maine, first; Sheryl Olsatad of Farmington second, Karen Wheeler of Milton third.

Non-apple fruit: Concord grape pie Phyllis Carifio of Revere, Mass., first; second and third place to Olsatad, for raspberry and blueberry pies.

Nonfruit: Susan Carley of Milton's peanut butter pie, first; runners-up Vanessa Coleman of Effingham and Morgan Sobol.