Thursday, August 31, 2006

Cinnamon Apple Tea

I tore open the packet and dumped the cinnamon and randered apple bits directly into the kettle. I allowed it to boil for two hours on medium heat allowing the smell to fill the room and then the home. I boilt it longer than could possible leave the brew edible. But edible was not the purpose.

All in all its not worth drinking. Watery, dry from the cinnamon and a mite bitter. But the smell it does the heart good. It's a few weeks short of even the Northern Spys ripening and there are no apples to be had any other way.

The Fujis and Braeburns are all imported from New Zealand and the cider was frozen last fall, only defrosted in the back of the grocery a week ago. It's a mild substitute but it reminds just fine.

Friday, August 25, 2006

Jewish Apple Cake

It tastes more like honey than apples. It's interesting to the palate that the apples have seeped all of their flavor into the cake and they themselves are vacant. But their texture is intact but more dry than the raw fruit and much more so than a pie.

Saturday, August 19, 2006

Zeiglers cider

At Zeigler's they follow a family apple cider recipe handed down from one generation to the next for over 73 years. They custom blend a variety of sweet and tart apples in the way they have for generations. Every batch of cider is taste-tested to maintain their high standards high standards as has always been a Family Tradition.
I find it a bit astringent myself, but that would accurately reflect a cider receipie from almost 100 years ago. On the other side of this century cider was aged like wine to render it's sugar to alcohol. A bit of bitterness blends nicely then.

Tuesday, August 15, 2006

APPLE FACT #136

Producing one apple requires the energy of about 50 leaves of an apple tree.

Saturday, August 12, 2006

Home of the Big Red Apple


Every year Cornelia, known as "Home of the Big Red Apple" gears up to host the Big Red Apple Festival. The Festival features a variety of arts and crafts booths, a fine arts exhibition in the newly-remodeled Cornelia Community House, entertainment, food vendors, children's events, a horseshoe tournament, 5k run, a fun walk, hayrides, an antique car cruise-in and a bluegrass music jam. http://www.beentheresawthat.com/

Tuesday, August 08, 2006

Lander Wyoming is the Apple City

Lander is a city in Fremont County, in the Riverton metro area. It is the county seat. The community is in the Mountain Standard time zone.

Friday, August 04, 2006

Apple Hill Chamber music


http://www.applehill.org/

Apple Hill's first international Playing for Peace Project was in 1988, when the Apple Hill Chamber Players toured Israel under the auspices of the US State Department and the US Embassy in Israel. The tour consisted of public Apple Hill Chamber Players concerts; private, US Ambassador hosted AHCP concerts; workshops; and the awarding, with the US Ambassador presiding, of Playing for Peace scholarships – full tuition, room, board, and transportation expenses for one – month's participation and study in the 1988 Apple Hill Summer Festival in New Hampshire – to Israeli Jewish and Israeli Arab students.

Founded in 1973, the Apple Hill Chamber Players are the performing artists and faculty for the internationally celebrated Apple Hill Festival in East Sullivan, NH, USA, where they are joined by professional, student, and amateur participants of all ages and backgrounds from all over the US and around the world.

Tuesday, August 01, 2006

Shot an Apple

It's perhaps the most famous dye transfer photograph. It's Harold Edgerton's .30 Bullet Piercing an Apple, circa 1964. High-speed cinematography was the key to “Doc” Edgerton’s remarkable series of motion studies, begun in the 1930’s. This much loved M.I.T. professor was the 20th Century Muybridge in his invention of the stroboscope which he used for studying the motions of life.