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Peaches are harvested in July and August along with early apples. The apple picking gets into full swing the day after Labor Day. The first apples ready for picking are grimes, golden delicious, and red delicious.
Now they're starting to pick yorks, winesap and stayman. All of these keep better throughout the winter.
When I was young there were a lot of small family orchards.
These orchards provided apples for the family use and some were sold for extra income.
We have all heard the saying "An apple a day keeps the doctor away." We ate apples almost every day but prepared differently. i There was applesauce, fried apples, stewed apples, apple pie and raw apples to eat. We even had "Poor Man's • Pie". This was applesauce put over sliced baked bread with a milk, sugar and nutmeg sauce to pour over it.
Then it was apple butter making time. The neighbors would come in and help peel and slice apples the night before. The work was never as hard when you had fun doing it.
To make apple butter it Was an all day job, starting at daybreak, adding the sliced apples slowly, stirring all the • time to keep it from sticking. Later in the day the sugar and seasoning was added. You cooked it until it was thick and very dark in color.
As you stirred the apples the saying was, "twice around the sides and once through the middle, that's the way to stir the apple butter kettle."
If you were stirring with your favorite friend, you got a kiss each time you bumped the sides. ■ It was well worth the hard days work when the delicious ' hot apple butter was dipped into jars.
Then there were the "snits". These were a certain kind of apples peeled and sliced and dried in the sun until they were completely dry.
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