Beth Acker and I took the kids to Moreland Fruit Farm on Tuesday to pick apples. We wanted to make some applesauce to put into the freezer. The farm gave us plastic bags that held a half bushel and we took two and headed out to pick some apples. We found the Melrose trees, which were supposed to be excellent for making sauce, and started picking. These apples were HUGE! Nearly the size of Daniel's head! Needless to say, the bag filled up in a few minutes. So we thought, gosh, that was fast....let's get some more! We ended up picking three bushels between the two of us of Melrose, Cortland, and Golden Delicious.
The kids had lots of fun helping and eating the apples.
Then we had to make the applesauce. After three hours of cooking, we only had done one and half bags. Wow, we had picked a lot of apples. We plan to work on the rest of them later this week. Maybe some pies or apple dumplings? Yum.
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