It’s that apple time
of the year. Freshly picked apples in the stores, at the apple orchards,
at the farmers’ markets, at the roadside stands. As a kid, I looked
forward to this time of the year as I am a great apple lover. Few things
taste better than a big, bright red apple. The kind that when you bite
into one it crunches a little and apple juice runs down your chin, mixing it up
with your smile.
We had a small orchard
on the home farm, a half dozen trees or so—Whitney Crab, Jonathon, Northwestern
Greening are some of the varieties I remember. We never pruned them,
never sprayed them, mostly ignored them—until this time of the year. Apple
picking time. My mother made apple pies, canned applesauce, and made
apple pickles to store in the cellar and eat during the cold days of winter.
We stopped at an
orchard the other day and bought a half bushel of Cortland and a half bushel of
Macintosh. Ruth is making apples sauce, and preparing apple pies.
Here is one way that she prepares apple pies for later baking.
FROZEN APPLE PIE
--Mix your favorite
apple pie filling together in a bowl. She uses tapioca for thickening.
--Line pie pan with
heavy duty foil, extending foil 5 inches beyond the rim.
--Put pie filling in
foil lined pan
--Fold foil ends
loosely over filling
--Freeze until apple
mixture is firm.
--Remove foiled
covered pie filling from pan. Cover
filling tightly and put pie filling including the foil covering in a freezer
bag, labeling the size of the pan used.
--When ready to bake a
pie, remove filling from foil. Do not
thaw.
--Place frozen filling
in pastry-lined pan. Dot filling with
butter.
--Cover with
top-slitted crust.
--Bake at 424 degrees
until syrup boils with bubbles that don’t break. About one hour.
Enjoy!
THE OLD TIMER SAYS: An
apple day is—a good idea, no matter what the doctor says.
UPCOMING EVENTS:
October
7, 6:30 p.m. Reedsburg Library, Whispers and Shadows
October
11, 10-12:00 a.m. Heartland Forum,
Chicago.
October
11, 3:00 p.m. Old World Wisconsin-Wisconsin Ag. History
October
12, 6:00 p.m. Coloma Historical Society.
Limping Through Life
October
15, 6:30 p.m. Prairie du Sac Library, Whispers and Shadows
October
17, 9-4 Teaching writing workshop at The Clearing, Ellison Bay, WI
October
17, 4:30-6:00 p.m. The Clearing. Book
signing, Whispers and Shadows, Wisconsin Agriculture: A History.
October
23, 10-11:00 a.m. Wisconsin Historical Society Museum (on the square). Whispers
and Shadows. Wisconsin Book Festival.
October
23, 3:30 p.m. Wisconsin Historical Society Auditorium (On UW Campus) Wisconsin
Agriculture: A History. Wisconsin Book
Festival.
October
25, 2:00 p.m. Schlitz Nature Center, Milwaukee with Boswell Books. Whispers and Shadows.
October
29, Brown County Library. Premier of TV
Documentary,” The Land With Jerry Apps. “ Book signing, Whispers and Shadows.
November
1, 2:00 p.m. Gard Theater, Spring Green. Ag History and Wisconsin Place Names
(a Robert Gard book).
November
5, 7:00 p.m. Baraboo Library, Whispers and Shadows.
November
7, Edgerton Book Festival, The Land (TV documentary) and Whispers and Shadows
November
10, 6:00 p.m. Wausau Public Library, Wisconsin Agriculture: A History.
November
12, 7:00 p.m. Bellville High School Auditorium with Bellville Public
Library. Wisconsin Agriculture: A
History
November
14, 9:30 -11:30 a.m. Sheboygan County Historical Research Center. Wisconsin Agriculture: A History.
November
15, 9:15 Midvale Lutheran Church, The Land (TV documentary) plus discussion of Whispers and Shadows.
November
17, 7:00 p.m. Hotel Red (1501 Monroe Street- corner of Regent and Monroe,
Madison.) “Wisconsin Agriculture: A
History, a discussion with Doug Moe. Sponsored by Mystery to me Bookstore. Book signing to follow.
November
18, Preview of TV Documentary, “The Land With Jerry Apps” Wild Rose High School
Auditorium. Whispers and Shadows book
signing. (Time to be announced)
Purchase Jerry’s
DVDS and his Books from the Patterson Memorial Library in Wild Rose, Wisconsin
(a fund raiser for them):
The
library now has available signed copies of Jerry’s DVDs, Emmy Winner, A Farm Winter with Jerry Apps and Jerry Apps a Farm Story.
Also
available are several of Jerry’s signed books including The Quiet Season (on which the DVD A Farm Winter is based), as well as Rural Wit and Wisdom and Old
Farm, (which are related to the DVD Jerry
Apps a Farm Story). Also available is Jerry’s new novel, The Great Sand Fracas of Ames County as
well as Whispers and Shadows and his
newest nonfiction book, Wisconsin
Agriculture: A History.
Contact
the library for prices and special package deals.
Patterson
Memorial Library
500 Division Street
1 comment:
Hello Jerry,
My Dad had a small apple orchard along with his cherry orchard in the 50's and 60's here in Door County. I'm trying to remember all the varieties we had: Red Delicious, Winesap, Cortland, Macintosh, Greening, Duchess, Wealthy, Hislop and Whitney crab, and my personal favorite, the Famuese, or Snow apple. I sure would like to taste a Snow apple again.
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