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  • From: bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] The place smells like apples.
  • Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:33:17 -0700 (PDT)

Your group has a big canning kitchen in Mesa. I thought you had one; you
'do' live in Utah ....<g> .....bobford


--- On Fri, 10/24/08, rayzentz AT aim.com <rayzentz AT aim.com> wrote:

> From: rayzentz AT aim.com <rayzentz AT aim.com>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] The place smells like apples.
> To: bobford79 AT yahoo.com, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Friday, October 24, 2008, 11:30 AM
> 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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