Old-fashioned treats — with a twist Story & Photos By Abby Cavenaugh When Stacy Dail Bailes and her husband Zachary Bailes started experimenting in their home kitchen, they had no idea that their “old-fashioned treats with a twist” would become so popular that folks would come from miles around to get a taste of their biscuit bombs, chew breads, fried pies, and specialized cookies and cakes. “We started posting on Facebook about what we made at home,” Stacy recalls. “People
liked it so much that we started a pop-up shop. We both worked fulltime jobs at the time, and now we feed a lot more people than I ever thought we would.” In fact, now, on any given Saturday, the couple’s bakery, Farmer & the Dail in rural Greene County, serves up to 500 people before noon alone, with lines often stretching outside the door. “We both enjoy baking,” Zachary says. “We always have. In fact, our engagement photos were taken
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in the kitchen.” “Basically we still make everything we used to make on Sunday mornings, just on a larger scale,” Stacy adds. “I think it’s something that people appreciate, that everything is made from scratch.” Zachary came up with the idea for the wildly popular biscuit bombs. One morning in the kitchen, he had the thought, “What if we just cooked the bacon and cheese into the biscuit dough?” And voila, the biscuit bomb was
