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Lol!!!?? Don't I wish.?? We currently live in a little three bedroom apt.?? 
The kitchen is so small you have to leave it to change your mind <g>.?? We 
have a little stove with one large burner, and three little ones.?? It gets 
to be a juggling act.?? Plus, the kitchen and front room get REALLY warm, 
which means I am often dressed rather scantily (sorry everyone... I hear 
Wal-Mart carries eye bleach) while I am working in there...?late at night.?? 
Don't want to scare my kids, either.



For a while there, apples dominated everything.?? Before that, it was the 
grapes.?? 

Grapes juice in a steam juicer MUCH faster than apples.



I have decided that I need a small apple press for juice next year.?? Any 
suggestions, everyone?

Ray


-----Original Message-----
From: bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 11:12 am
Subject: Re: [Homestead] The place smells like apples.




You do understand, Lisa, that ray, has (don't you, ray?), a big group 
commercial 
type kitchen in which to do his canning.  That probably helps with quantity.  
I 
hope to make use of one of those facilities, out of the generosity of their 
group (I will do volunteer work, there if I do, also) as soon as I decide 
whether I'm going to stay put or board up and go on hiatus if things really 
fall 
apart .....bobford


--- On Fri, 10/24/08, Lisa K.V. Perry <lisakvperry AT gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Lisa K.V. Perry <lisakvperry AT gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] The place smells like apples.
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Friday, October 24, 2008, 11:00 AM
> On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 10:54 AM, <rayzentz AT aim.com>
> wrote:
> 
> >
> > Well, we've just started in with drying.??
> We've put up over 100 qts of
> > applesauce, 15 qts of juice, to use for jelly later,
> 24 qts of apple pie
> > filling, and now it's on to dehydrating, primarily
> for apple snacks for
> > kids, and their school lunches.?? My wife is sick of
> apples...
> 
> 
> Ray,  told my husband about the amazing Zentz family last
> week, how you had
> then put up 85 quarts of applesauce and that was before you
> were ready to do
> pie filling, etc. I really wish you could have seen the
> look on his face.
> We're finishing apples as I write, and truthfully,
> I'm glad to learn that
> I'll be dehydrating pumpkin instead of canning.
> 
> I realize that next apple season we'll have to step up
> production (and ward
> off the deer better) to produce more quarts to last
> throughout the year.
> 
> I'll bet your wife is sick of apples, probably the
> whole family is, but bet
> you'll enjoy the apple pie at Thanksgiving. ;)
> 
> Lisa
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