Bag Lady's Blather: Still Preserving!

Monday, October 22, 2012

Still Preserving!

The Bag Lady is still busy with summer's bounty! She went to town on the weekend to a "pie-making" party. Friends of hers have a single apple tree in their backyard. It produced 4 bags of apples. Two of those bags made 48 (yes, forty eight!) pies! The Bag Lady brought the remaining two bags of apples home and is in the process of making even more jelly and applesauce (Applesauce Cake... yum!)

Nothing from these apples is going to waste. The Bag Lady gave the peels and cores to a few visitors who were camping out in their trailer in her yard....

The visitors only stopped overnight on their way to (*cough* the abattoir *cough*) their final destination.

15 comments:

Leah J. Utas said...: That's a phenomenal number of pies. It sounds like a lot of work, but I know how much you'll appreciate it in the dead of winter.
How very gracious of you to give the guests a tasty last supper.; October 22, 2012 at 9:31 AM
the Bag Lady said...: They had more apple peel (and potato peelings, too!) for breakfast before they left!; October 22, 2012 at 11:21 AM
solarity said...: You remind me that the apples in my refrigerator are still waiting for me to find the sugar so I can cook them in the pot I havefound.

Mary Anne in Kentucky; October 23, 2012 at 5:38 AM
messymimi said...: Oh, i can only imagine how good your kitchen smells right now!; October 23, 2012 at 7:29 AM
Dana said...: Wow, 48 pies :) Delish!!!!!!!!!!! Do you have a favourite apple recipe?; October 23, 2012 at 8:25 AM
the Bag Lady said...: Mary Anne - find that sugar!

Messymimi - oh, yes, it smells fabulous (I always add a cinnamon stick when I'm cooking apples!)

Dana - Applesauce Cake. Applesauce Oatmeal Cookies.... yum! (Thanks for taking the time to visit); October 23, 2012 at 8:55 AM
janelle said...: Loved finding you via my post/october unprocessed ;) The pigs are so darn cute!; October 23, 2012 at 1:25 PM
the Bag Lady said...: Thanks for stopping by, Janelle!
I had to leave your ice cream post in a hurry - I could feel my waistline expanding!; October 23, 2012 at 4:52 PM
Hilary said...: Last meals are a kindness.

Apple pies.. Yum!; October 25, 2012 at 9:08 PM
Karen (formerly kcinnova) said...: Does a final meal of apples make the apple-smoked bacon extra tasty? ;)

I can't even imagine 48 pies all at once. I've done up to 5 in a day, but that is my limit. (And no matter how many I make, they disappear rapidly.); October 26, 2012 at 8:58 PM
Karen (formerly kcinnova) said...: Oops, meant applewood smoked bacon!; October 26, 2012 at 8:59 PM
Karen (formerly kcinnova) said...: This little piggy goes to market...

(sorry, can't help myself tonight!); October 26, 2012 at 9:04 PM
the Bag Lady said...: Hilary - I hope the pies will be yummy!

Karen - you made me laugh. Several times. Thanks!; October 28, 2012 at 10:03 PM
Crabby McSlacker said...: Hmm, been a long time and my French is rusty. As I recall, "abattoir" means Happy Loving Pig Retirement Home, and please don't disabuse me of that notion!

Great pics!; October 29, 2012 at 8:10 AM
the Bag Lady said...: Crabby - actually it's French for "Sty in the Sky", but it's interchangeable with your definition.; October 29, 2012 at 8:18 AM