Hi, everyone!
It’s really fall now! More of the trees are turning color, and lots of leaves are falling. I’m seeing lots of yellow and orange and red!
Yesterday, Harlan-san came out to Sodus to help Grandma and Grandpa take in the dock for the winter. We were lucky! It stopped raining right when he arrived and didn’t start again until all the dock sections were put away. Grandma and I even got the kayaks washed before it started raining, but we had to bring them inside to dry them off!
Today was apple pie day at Grandma and Grandpa’s church! Grandma takes me along, so I can see all my baking friends and help with the pies. We made more than 150 pies!
There was a really big crowd this year to peel and cut the apples! Some people used apple peeling machines and some people used hand peelers. I got to visit with lots of my baking friends while they were working!
Then I went back into the kitchen to help my friend Mike-san make crust. He does it twenty-one crusts at a time! Grandma and Averil-san had lots of crust to roll! The filling crew filled six pies at a time! I helped Nancy-san crimp the top crust on a pie and decorate the pie with apple cutouts on the crust. Every time I looked, there were more trays of crust, more pies to be filled and more top crusts to put on!
We finally used up all the apples and finished making pies. I followed the last pie to the wrapping station and helped wrap it in foil. All the pies are frozen unbaked, and the directions for baking them are right on the foil! Some people don’t even wait for the pies to be frozen before they buy them!
When Grandma and I got home from pie making, there was still some afternoon left. Grandpa was clearing leaves in the back yard, and he and Grandma made a leaf pile for me! It’s the first one this year!
Grandma is getting the supplies ready for baking cinnamon rolls for Election Day, and I’m looking forward to seeing more of my church baking friends. I helped Grandma make the gluten free scones for the sale last week. They need to be made ahead and packaged and frozen so they don’t get mixed up with the wheat flour baking at church. Grandma says we’re going to have another big adventure before Election Day baking, so we had to get everything ready early!
Love,
Lion-san
It was nice seeing you at the pie baking. You are a great all around helper! We certainly hope you tasted the apple filling and the butterscotch chips to make sure they were all good!