Applesauce!

We missed most of our big apple tree, out of simple ignorance about when the apples are ready! ; ) But an afternoon of picking and 2 hours of processing yielded 18 pints of applesauce. Which we thought would be plenty, given that we almost never eat applesauce. But it's SO GOOD. We are going through it like nobody's business. Good thing we have two more trees of apples coming on!

This reminds me of a conversation we were having with J's dad the other day, when we were wondering why we don't know these things about apple trees, etc., that are coming to seem really, pretty important to us. And he said, rightly, 'It's because we didn't teach it to you.' Shortly after that, I came across a quote from Nora Ephron: 'What my mother taught me about cooking was that if you work hard and make money, you can make other people do it for you.'

So much knowledge, just evaporated in one generation. Oops.