Marcia Miller has won some 530 ribbons in the Iowa State Fair’s baking competitions with all manner of cakes, cookies and pastries, but she’d never made a red raspberry pie.
Marcia Miller
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Marcia Miller of Des Moines won three Blue Ribbons out of the 16 pies she entered in the Pies from the Heartland competition at the Iowa State Fair this year.
Photo courtesy of Lee Wire/Des Moines RegisterMarcia Miller has won some 530 ribbons in the Iowa State Fair’s baking competitions with all manner of cakes, cookies and pastries, but she’d never made a red raspberry pie.
Marcia Miller
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