Windfall Apples and Apple Press Part 2

              Before we took our vacation in October in Vermont,

    we wanted to make use of the many windfall apples

                        left behind in the huge orchard behind our home                   

We were so excited to try our

 antique apple/grape press,

and Mommy who is 91 was 

so happy to join us!     

It was great fun!!

"Lottie!! Leave our apples alone"!!

(Grandma always on the "spoil")!

We had to chop the apples 

because the grinder was

 actually meant for grapes!!

    

But this hundred year old

piece of equipment still worked as new!!

And the fruit of our labor was

plentiful

 refreshing

and delectable!!

    

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There were plenty more apples to enjoy

so delicious deserts and cannings were made!

       

 

The Mousiekins inspect their 

bounty in the Butt'ry

Drying is easy and useful

After Apple Picking

But I was well
Upon my way to sleep before it fell,
And I could tell
What form my dreaming was about to take.
Magnified apples appear and disappear,
Stem end and blossom end,
And every fleck of russet showing clear.
My instep arch not only keeps the ache,
It keeps the pressure of a ladder-round.
I feel the ladder sway as the boughs bend.
And I keep hearing from the cellar bin
The rumbling sound
Of load on load of apples coming in.
For I have had too much
Of apple-picking: I am overtired
Of the great harvest I myself desired.
There were ten thousand thousand fruit to touch,
Cherish in hand, let down, and not let fall.
For all
That struck the earth,
No matter if not bruised or spiked with stubble,
Went surely to the cider-apple heap
As of no worth.
One can see what will trouble
This sleep of mine, whatever sleep it is.
Were he not gone,
The woodchuck could say whether it’s like his
Long sleep, as I describe its coming on,
Or just some human sleep.    Robert Frost

Visit and listen to Author Joan Donaldson

of Pleasant Hill Farm

http://wmuk.org/post/pressing-fresh-apple-cider-fall-afternoon

copy and paste (my links are not working)!!!

Also visit her wonderful BLOG here: 

 http://visitstocorgicottage.blogspot.com/

About her friendship with Tasha Tudor

ENJOY:

The 800 acres of orchard behind and 

surrounding our house is so beautiful

 and we are ever so thankful that we are allowed to gather 

and glean!

                                                                          Oh give thanks to the 

                                                                       Lord for His Love

                                                                     endures forever

                                                                                                     Psalm 107:1

                                                                                (All photos by and property of Linnie Nolan)

The Mousiekin Family prepare their 

Apples for the winter root celler.

The Press rests so lovely in the Kitchen

till next year......

...but"please Ashley no more chewing

 on the antique press leg"!!!

LOTTIE SAYS:
"Life is SWEET so enjoy a TREAT"!!

Hope you enjoyed!

Many Blessings 

Love Linnie