It’s not Autumn without a little bit of applesauce but it’s been a crazy few months and we hadn’t put up our usual batch. Saturday though we got a chance to go by Barber Orchard Fruit Stand and got a peck of their local Stayman-Winesap apples. Yesterday we quartered and cored the apples and set them to simmer on the stove. Oh, the magical smell of apples cooking! Then we put them through the food mill before chilling the batch in the refrigerator overnight. This morning we reheated and seasoned the applesauce and got the canner up to temperature. Our yield was a mere seven pints. More would have been better but we have the promise of a little bit of the glory of applesauce in the middle of winter!
Winter Magic in Medina
By deliberate choice we were in Medina for all the winter holiday festivities from Candlelight Walk in the days before Thanksgiving through A Christmas Carol and A Celtic Christmas as well as an Alex Bevan Concert and a historic house tour all the way through Medina’s 31st Ice Festival but perhaps the highlight was the town hosting hundreds of folks whose homes and lives were devasted by Hurricane Helene at the A Promise of Christmas Event the middle of January. It’s an honor to be a part of this amazing community!
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