[TheForge] The hard cider is good... OT:

[wmullett at bright.net]

Our apple butter making is a big family event.  We had 20 there this year counting the little ones too - represents 8 households.  Even the 6 yr old's took turns stirring.  

It does take a lot of work but the family all wants to do it.

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>Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 09:39:37 -0700
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>300 pints of apple sauce?
>85 pints of apple butter?
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>Me, I eat about 1 pint of apple sauce a year- I cant imagine making that much apple sauce unless I was going in the business.
>Eating apple sauce every day would make me a lot sicker than ice cubes in scotch, thats for sure. 
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>Instead, I wash the apples, core em, and slice em 1/4" thick, and put em in my 8 layer food dehydrator. I ziplock bag up the dried apple slices, and my wife and son eat them all by about january.
>More work, I suppose, although the dehydrator does most of it. But its an apple product my family actually consumes.
>If we made that much apple sauce, we would be giving it all away, and people would be running when they saw us coming, kinda like when you grow zucchinis.
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>We usually get a few hundred pounds of pears, too, and I dry a lot of those, but they are good hard bartering tools- I swap a few bushels of pears for a nice tab at the local bakery.
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>Ries Niemi
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