What do you do with 40 pounds of apples?
Bring an apple for teacher? Don’t bring one for Jessica.
Jess and I spent Saturday (her birthday) at Weaver’s Orchard near Reading where we picked 40 pounds of apples. (We picked an extra 3/4 pound of raspberries for good measure.) You might think that’s a lot of apples. Jess thought so – and she was only carrying half of them. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ir5GRuc5UZs]
We spent Sunday baking (and stretching back to my Pennsylvania Dutch roots – saucing). Very experimental, but fun time. We had six kinds of apples – Golden Delicious, Red Delicious, Empire, Jonathan, Jonagold (a cross between GD and Jonathan), and Cortland – and we made five different kinds of applesauce by tinkering with the apples involved.
Jess also made an apple pie and raspberry cheesecake. The oven was on overload, but it was relaxing to step away from daily activities.
And we won’t need to buy fruit at the grocery for a few months. What do 40 pounds of apples look like? 86 apples that cover the whole kitchen table.
