By LISA G. CURRIE

By LISA G. CURRIE

Rappahannock News Staff Writer

Heidi Eastham is working on making her dreams come true.

Ultimately, Mrs. Eastham would like to own and operate a deli/bakery in Rappahannock County.

Getting started with simple white, wheat and rye loaves in various sizes, Mrs. Eastham is selling breads to friends and family members in the area.

Using her Flint Hill kitchen and a Fanny Farmer cookbook, Mrs. Eastham, a horse trainer, began selling “breads, yeast rolls and a few pies” as a means to earn a little extra money while not being able to work due to pregnancy.

“I sell to my friends and family members,” she said, sitting on the floor of her restored home.

The kitchen is warm in the August heat and radiates with the smell of freshly baked bread. A young woman, Mrs. Eastham said she was never “domestic as a young girl. I was always too busy. My mother and sister were always the ones to do the baking but now, suddenly, I enjoy it.”

Using perfected recipes, modified for ease and originial taste, Mrs. Eastham requires at least one day’s notice for orders.

“I started with just five loaves,” she said with laughter, adding at present, it has grown to number 25 customers.

It didn’t take long for the business to bloom.

It all started one afternoon when she and her husband, Lindsey, were selling com on Rt. 211.

“I decided to try selling a few loaves of bread,” she said, adding her husband “never thought they would sell.”

Every loaf sold and the demand grew.

“I was so suprised,” she said.

Hoping this small-scale baking will lead to “a place where the farm wives in Rappahannock can bring their canned goods, their baked goods, their jams and jelly, to sell,” Mrs. Eastham decided to test the market and discover if there was a demand for fresh bread.

She has discovered in just “three