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

[Andrew Vida]

ries wrote:
> 300 pints of apple sauce? 85 pints of apple butter?

No 24 pints of the latter.

We had thousands of VERY good apples this year and had to do something
with them.  Bibi sold a load at Dulles @ $0.50/per and I guess we will
now sell off most of the sauce, which should be excellent as baby food,
now that I think of it.
> 
> 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.

Each has its place that is for sure.
> 
> 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.

	Well, I guess time will tell for us on that bit.  So far, we cannot 
produce enough eggs for people.  Unfortunately, that god damned goldn 
eagle took about 80 of our birds this summer.  I shot at it plenty but 
I'm not a wing shooter and therefore could not hit the broadside of a 
barn.  The bastard got away.
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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.

	Yeah, we haev about 5 cases of pear sauce - most excellent, and some 
pear butter as well.  Our peach marmalade came out absolutely 
fantastically.  We made grandma's way - the American way is lazy and 
nasty with using pecting and all that.  But if you take the time and 
cook the peaches down instead of using pectin, you get a very different 
result.  I want to put in a load of apricot trees.
> 
> Ries Niemi Industrial Artist http://www.riesniemi.com/
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