The Old Folks Home

[ozexpat]

time to start posting photos of my little buddy Aaron

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Then here ya go. We use this recipe - easy and you can just refrigerate it if you don't want to can it.

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/all-da...le butter&e8=Quick Search&event10=1&e7=Recipe

Thanks for the recipe.

We made apple butter every autumn with the whole family and neighbors at the old homestead.
It was a 2 day endeavor. I don't remember the numbers exactly so don't critique me. It seems like it was 30 bushels of apples and 50 lbs. of sugar.
On Saturday, all the adults would sit around the harvest table with paring knives. I manned the hand crank peeler. By the end of the day all the apples were cut up by hand.
Just before dawn on Sunday a big fire was built under the copper kettle. It was like this but much bigger.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Antique-Cop...401?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1e8fc86f11
I've never seen one like it since. I think one of my sisters has it.
I still have the paddle to stir it. The paddle had to be manned constantly. If it wasn't stirred it would burn the copper ruining the kettle.
By dusk we would have filled every crock and jar in the community with the most delicious treat and topped them off with wax.
My aunt had the secret recipe and made everyone leave the house while she assembled the spices. They went into a bag and into the cauldron. As the apples boiled down we continued to add more.
I remember the flavor so I think I can replicate the recipe. I ate apple butter bread several times a week for many months thereafter.

ozexpat is like the FBI lol awesome job! I'm going to give you a call next time my kids are acting a fool and let you scare them

 

[chickisoup]

Hi everyone!
wow, I missed a lot, again! Let's see, someone's going to be a grandma

, someone had a very, very, hard road with a very happy ending (Oz)

, someone had a problem with pumpkin bottoms

, everyone's doing apple stuff, including the chickens

and we are all being "trolled" by a baby Canadian

. Oh. and Alaskan is plotting out her stealth coop!

does that cover it?????

 

[ChickenCanoe]

By his recent activity, Aronia seemed to be kind of weird: ...

Couldn't agree more.

I'm done here.

 

[aascvd01]

time to start posting photos of my little buddy Aaron

By Aaron do you mean me?

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Hi everyone!
wow, I missed a lot, again! Let's see, someone's going to be a grandma

, someone had a very, very, hard road with a very happy ending (Oz)

, someone had a problem with pumpkin bottoms

, everyone's doing apple stuff, including the chickens

and we are all being "trolled" by a baby Canadian

. Oh. and Alaskan is plotting out her stealth coop!

does that cover it?????

That covers it but I thought it was HIS stealth coop.

 

[bamadude]

time to start posting photos of my little buddy Aaron

our little oz is blossoming into an outlaw. I love it

 

[aascvd01]

Hi everyone!
wow, I missed a lot, again! Let's see, someone's going to be a grandma

, someone had a very, very, hard road with a very happy ending (Oz)

, someone had a problem with pumpkin bottoms

, everyone's doing apple stuff, including the chickens

and we are all being "trolled" by a baby Canadian

. Oh. and Alaskan is plotting out her stealth coop!

does that cover it?????

Is the baby canadian Aronia?

 

[bamadude]

Hi everyone!
wow, I missed a lot, again!  Let's see, someone's going to be a grandma  , someone had a very, very, hard road with a very happy ending (Oz)   , someone had a problem with pumpkin bottoms  , everyone's doing apple stuff, including the chickens :cd  and we are all being "trolled" by a baby Canadian  .  Oh. and Alaskan is plotting out her stealth coop!

does that cover it?????

yep

 

[Peep_Show]

LOL. Stealth coop... I just sort of had a mental picture of a shed painted in camouflage.

Do the roosters wear silencers?

Or, I suppose, you could just add it to a row of coops and hope somebody doesn't count very well.