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Apple Hand Pie

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Love this video tutorial that walks you through how to make hand pies. Just follow this step-by-step and you will have the most adorable and flavorful apple hand pies ever. Crimping is a cinch!

Ingredients:

  • Store-bought pie crust – you can make your own, but we took the shortcut
  • Butter – a bit of bacon fat* is an excellent addition. See note below
  • Apples – something flavorful like a Honeycrisp or Jonathan
  • Salt
  • White sugar
  • Brown sugar
  • Cinnamon
  • Water

*Bacon twist – We had some bacon drippings left from breakfast so we used them in place of some of the butter. Wow, bacon and apples are a great combination! We need to explore this combination in more recipes

Big Apple Pancake

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This is a great brunch item. So fun to make.

Recipe comes from Epicurious

You’ll want to include something tart to offset the sweet, custardy goodness of the pancake. A few options – sprinkle fresh-picked raspberries on top, go with a tart apple to begin with, or add a bit of lemon juice to the pancake.

Baking tip – The recipe calls for you to bake the pancake until it is “puffed and golden”. By puffed, that means to let it poof up until it almost overflows the pan.

2019 Season

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Thanks for joining us at the orchard this fall. Kudos to the kiddos from Raymond Central’s kindergarten class for this amazing collage. Art comes from the heart and the most experienced artists know they are lucky if they can capture the spontaneity of this kind of artwork

The trees are getting ready for a long winter’s nap

Cider fans:  We  have frozen cider for holiday celebrations. Just give us a call to schedule a pickup.

We look forward to seeing everyone next fall

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pumpkin Tiramisu

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Okay, we didn’t sacrifice a pumpkin from the patch to make this dessert,  although we COULD have. Yes, went with canned pumpkin from the store. Somewhat embarrassed but sometimes one has to go with what is easy.

Can’t find mascarpone cheese at your grocery?  Neither could we. But, we found good substitute using cream cheease, butter and whipping cream.  What we learned in going with that substitute . . . probably need to blend a bit longer so all the cream cheese is incorporated. We had a few lumps of white cream in our dessert, but can confirm that we didn’t get any complaints at all.

Cinnamon Apple Pie Bread

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“Forget the pie crust and get all the flavors of fall in a quick and easy cinnamon apple pie bread with brown sugar and cinnamon topping that’s as sweet as apple pie”

Things we’d recommend for when we make this a third time*

# of Apples – Recipe calls for 1 Granny Smith apple. We used 1 1/2 Jonathans and if we did it again would probably use 2 apples as the fruit brings nice moisture to the bread.

  • Baking time – We found the bread took longer than 30 mins to bake, like an additional 20 mins. That wasn’t a problem but wanted to share in case you were rushing to get your dog walked while it baked. My dog walks slow but we could have walked twice the distance. 🙂  And, yes, she got to sample the result and gave it a woof of approval.

*A third time?  Yes, indeed. The first time we (I) misread the amount of flour and added 1/2 cup instead of 1 1/2 cups. As a result, first attempt ended up more like a bread pudding.  Tastes wonderful but more like flan than bread. Of course, there is nothing wrong with that.  Cinnamon apple pie flan has a nice ring to it.