Saturday, September 20
Annual Cider Press
One side of Gabriel Park has a large community garden, where people tend their own garden patches for home-grown veggies. Next to that is the Gabriel Orchard, which has a couple of dozen apple trees of various varieties. This morning they had the annual Cider Press, where community gardeners and volunteers pick, clean, core, grind, and crush the apples. The free cider was great! Here are pictures of the process.
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Looks like so much fun! We canned applesauce this afternoon and one of the Quakers invited us over after meeting to pick pears. We have almost a bushel of pears on the breezeway right now. Any suggestions?
I think I've made a crisp before with pears that was really good. That might take care of a few of them. I guess they are too soft to can?
I probably will can some of them but I'm just not that fond of canned pears and apparently they don't freeze well. I'll make a pie or two and dehydrate some. Maybe pear sauce? I've never made it or had it but it might be fun and that would be easy to can. We've still got a few days before they are ripe.
It's getting cool and the tops of the trees are changing. We miss you!
Hey Dave, an update on the pears. I canned 5 pints today and made a second batch of pear lime ginger preserve. Except this batch hasn't set up. It's more sauce than anything. And I made a crisp that I took to Mark's tonight for dinner. I've got six pears left. I think they're headed for the dehydrator tomorrow.
Millie,
Sounds great. We're thinking of traveling the "Fruit Loop" this weekend which will take us by many orchards. We may need your advice on canning and other techniques.
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