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Rappahannock News Staff PhotoMaik F. Sypher ITALIAN BAKER: Argia Caporuscio came to this country from her native Italy. Now she’s baking bread that sells out quickly at the Town Duck in Old Town Warrenton.
She quickly started to grow produce.
“I love to see my stuff growing,” she said. “We plant all kinds of produce on the farm ... com, beans, tomatoes, asparagus, blueberries, blackberries ... and I sell plants.”
Caporuscio said her recipe for bread has evolved over the years. “When we came to Virginia, my husband said, You’re going to make bread.’ It took me three years to get it the way I want it.
“I like to change a little bit. . I baked to the recipes, and then I changed them.”
She also fiddles with her recipes for jams and jellies.
“I don’t add any water to my. jams,” she said. “I try to change and make it a little different. If it calls for water, sometimes I’ll puree cantaloupe in there instead of water. You can’t tell it’s cantaloupe.”
Caporuscio, who as a child saw German soldiers take over her town during World War II, said she’s not trying to make a mint baking bread and selling jams.
“I do it for fun, and I make a little money, and I really like to do it,” she said. “And I’ve had customers who are still with me since I started.”
Argia Caporuscio’s bread can be purchased at the Town Duck in Warrenton on Wednesdays. Her jams and jellies can be purchased at Food For Thought in Culpeper. Caporuscio can be reached at (540) 937-5797.
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