What prevents Mrs. Weindenbach from entering the county fair baking competition this year?

Mrs. Weidenbach had won every year for her bread-and-butter pickles but thinks that since they are deep in the Depression and bankers aren’t looked too kindly on, it would be best if she did not enter this year. But, she thinks that someone should represent their town and bring home the blue ribbon. Nobody can make a gooseberry pie as good as Grandma’s, so she should enter. It took awhile, but Grandma finally consents to enter her pie at the county fair.