As I am sitting here enduring this heat my friends in Montana are all getting ready to pick apples. I am usually there to help pick cherries, raspberries and sometimes even blueberries and blackberries, but have never been during apple harvest. I always look forward to the fall because I end up with a jar or two of special homemade applesauce and I can assure you it tastes like nothing you can buy. I am not a applesauce fan, however give me a jar of homemade and a little cinnamon on top and I can devour the entire jar.
I took this photo right before I left to come home in August. The apples really make a beautiful photo.
My apples are just starting here – I love the fall for all the fresh apples and pears!
I am not much of a pear person, but think they look beautiful on trees!!! Hope you have a bumper crop.
My grandmother used to make homemade applesauce from the apples that came off the trees in her orchard. She would even make it red, by adding the peels and getting the color from them. Best. Applesauce Ever. But when she died, so did the recipe. Sad, sad, sad.
You should try. My friends say it is easy & not much of a recipe involved.