Wednesday, April 1, 2020

A ~ Apples

    Coming home from school and seeing that the fall delivery of apples had come in that day was always exciting.
     We were allowed to try the different kinds, but then bushels and bushels of crisp Yellow Delicious apples were stored in the darker part of the basement where they would remain until spring.
     Mom would have several different kinds of apples to make applesauce. A mix of Granny Smith and Golden Delicious were turned into hundreds of quarts of sauce that filled a whole section of our canning shelves. Cortland and McIntosh made a lovely pink sauce. I wasn't the biggest fan of applesauce, but a lovely shade of pink made it much more appealing to me.
     Big roast pans filled with peeled apples were placed in the oven where they baked at a low heat for hours and were turned into apple butter.
     My favorite were the Yellow Delicious. Night after night we would head down to the basement to fill a bowl of apples. Mom would peel and slice them, and then we'd munch on them as she read a chapter or two from a book for our bedtimes stories.
     By spring the apples were beginning to get a little wrinkled and weren't as crisp and juicy, but we kept enjoying them until the last one was gone, and time for gardening had arrived once more.
    Spring and summer were great, but I always looked forward to fall and winter. The season of apples and bedtime stories.

14 comments:

  1. Such a sweet memory. My first choice for my apple pie is golden delicious. Always just sweet enough and always delicious like the name says!

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    1. It's been a while since I've had a Golden Delicious apple. I should get some on our next venture into the outside world for groceries.

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  2. Wonderful memories and I'm looking forward to Apple season when my hope is we'll be able to leave our homes again.

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    1. Oh, I so hope things will be back to normal and this upheaval will only be a memory by the time our apple season rolls around.

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  3. I enjoyed reading about your apple memory.
    We had an interesting day to end March with yesterday. The month came in like a lamb with warm, sunny weather but yesterday? We had:
    An earthquake, (very rare here), a tornado, (also very, very rare), snow, sleet, thundersnow, rain, sunshine. It was absolutely a crazy weather day.
    Blessings,
    Betsy

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    1. Good Heavens! All that in one day? Where do you live?

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    2. Your crazy weather day sounds like something that should go into a history book! Glad you're still okay.

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  4. My favorite apples are Rome and McIntosh. Macs make a lovely pie or apple crisp.

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    1. Love how many different kinds of apples are available.

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  5. Such a lovely memory, and I love apples too, though they aren't so full of memories for me.

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  6. Beautiful memories, apples are a favorite of mine I make applesauce and can it in the fall, they are so sweet I don't have to add sugar.
    Have a great day,
    Sue

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  7. A wonderful memory, thank you for sharing.

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