Agape Table has been serving hot meals to people in the inner city since 1980. It is able to provide this service through the support of the Winnipeg community. Fruit Share is proud to share some of its bounty with this great organization.
Mike, a volunteer with Agape Table gladly takes in one of the two big boxes of apples we brought earlier this morning.
Come join us as we rescue more apples. We have two locations for the morning of Wednesday, September 1.
Exact times and locations will be sent to all registered fruit picking volunteers.
Hope to see you there.
My friend Kathryn sent me this link to two dozen apple cake recipes.
http://tipnut.com/make-apple-cake/
Now, which one to make first?
Chris, another great FruitShare volunteer found a recipe for dried apple rings.
If you try this recipe, please let us know how it works.
Dried apples
Ingredients
4 medium tart apples
2 tbls. lemon juice
2 cups water
Preparation
Pre heat oven to 300 Combine water and lemon juice in a large bowl
Core apples and slice into 1/4 inch rings
Place apple rings in water, juice mixture and make sure to cover apple completely for 5 minutes. This will keep apples from discoloring.
Drain well and pat dry
Lightly spray 2 wire racks with cooking spray
Arrange rings on racks in single layer making sure not to touch
Set each rack on a baking sheet
put into oven one sheet on top oven rack and the other on the bottom rack.
Bake for 15 minutes
Reverse sheets in the oven.( Place the top sheet on the bottom rack and the top sheet on the bottom
Bake for 15 more minutes
Shut oven off and let rings dry in the oven without opening the door, about 3 hours.
We had a great time picking apples on Tuesday night. Gorgeous, delicious Goodland apples.
We picked as many as we could with our super tall step ladders. But this was a very tall tree and we could only go so high. In our eagerness to get every last apple, we did the only thing we could think of - we shook the apples from the tree. We cringed as we watched and listened to them plummeting to the ground. They landed pretty hard and most have big bruises on them now. They’re still useable for applesauce and juice, but they’re not so great for eating, slicing or giving away.
Oops, maybe shaking the tree without a safety blanket to catch them before they hit the ground is not such a great idea. Lesson learned – unless you intend to whip up a big batch of juice or applesauce right away, shaking apple trees is not a good technique for harvesting apples.
Since they’re in no shape to be given away, we’re researching the most effective way to turn them into juice. Stay tuned as we find out what options are available to us apple shakers!
We have another apple picking session scheduled for 7 pm this Thursday.
Leave a comment if you’re interested.
Another picking opportunity!
Join the fun and help us pick apples tonight at 7pm.
Register now to get all the details.
From Aleta, one of our great Fruit Share Volunteers.
I made a big pot of applesauce and Maple Apple Crisp. Here’s the recipe I adapted from one I found in my collection.
Maple Apple Crisp
Ingredients
6 cups apples – peeled, cored, and sliced
1/2 cup maple syrup
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 cup rolled oats
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 pinch salt
1/3 cup butter, softened
It took two of us, three hours to pick 210 lb of delicious apples from this tree. The homeowner was as thrilled to see her apples being harvested and put to good use as we were to have them. They’re perfect for eating right off the tree or turning into endless apple recipes (stay tuned for Aleta’s great Maple Apple Crisp recipe).
This morning, the kids and I delivered four big boxes (about 120 lb) to Winnipeg Harvest.
Picking, eating, processing and sharing all those wonderful apples brought us and many others a lot of JOY! To learn more about the JOY flower you see in this photo visit Deb-Dawson Dunn’s site – Get It Dunn .
We’ll be on our ladders picking apples in the neighbourhood bright and early tomorrow morning. Can’t wait to see what we’ll be getting.
If you’re interested in joining us, sign up now and we’ll send you all the details.
Stay tuned for more pictures!
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