We went to the Great Maine Apple Day (or better, this link) at the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardners Association place in Unity on Saturday. Well! It was different from the Fryeburg Fair! For one thing, there was no traffic. Partly that was because we left Casco just about at 8 AM to get to …
Monthly Archives: October 2006
Crabapple Liqueur recipe
From a handout from Fedco Trees that we picked up at the Apple event yesterday 4 quarts crabapples cut in half 4 C granulated sugar 26 oz vodka Fill 4 quart container 3/4 full with crabapples. Pour sugar over top. Add vodka. Add remaining crabapples. Put lid on. Let stand on counter or in cupboard. …
Apple Crumble recipe, from Aunt Lee
She emailed us this yesterday. We still have more apples than we know what to do with, so we made the recipe, but we didn’t have ginger so our opinion won’t be a good indication of how the recipe is. About 5 large apples, peeled and sliced 1/4 cup honey 2 tablespoons brown sugar 1/4 …
Fryeburg Midway
You’re not really going to find a fair without a midway. There’s a pretty interesting article about the guy who owns and runs the midway for the Fryeburg fair on their website. He started working in carnivals when he was a kid, sleeping in people’s game booths as a watchman so the prizes (which they …
Fryeburg Home Ec Exhibits
Besides animal exhibits, the Fryeburg Fair has opportunities to exhibit, well, for instance, vegetable gardening, canning and knitting. I’m not sure what other cooking competitions or exhibits there are, because I had to zoom through that building to keep up with my family. We’ve seen TV reports about giant pumpkin contests at big fairs. I …
Fryeburg Agriculture Exhibits
The Fryeburg fair is after all an agricultural fair. It has lots and lots of animals on display. Maybe more people come to watch the harness racing and to ride the rides at the midway than to look at the animals, but I’m not at all sure. The barns were packed with so many visitors …
Fryeburg Fiber
The Fryeburg Fair has a big fiber exhibit. Of course Arlene and I wanted to spend some time there. One (well, perhaps not; we’ve spent a lot of time around Maine by now) strange thing is that we’re beginning to know people around this state. One of the exhibitors at the fiber center was the …
Getting to the Fryeburg Fair
Charley, Nicole, and Emma are up in Maine this weekend with us. Charley and Nicole were thinking of going to the Fryeburg Fair last weekend, but decided against it in the end. They had talked it up to Emma, who was really psyched for it. We set out for it after a long slow morning …
Deer in the headlights
On Heath Road, along the ridge approaching the intersection of Mayberry Hill Rd. It was in the road, crossing from right to left, when I saw it. Then it looked right at us, evaluated the situation, turned around, and walked off into the woods to the right from whence it had come.
Applesauce
What do you do with all those apples? Maybe one day I’ll have a cider press; but for now, what we don’t make pies or apple crisp of, or give away, or just eat, is probably going to be applesauce. We started last night. I’m not normally that big a fan of applesauce. If I’ve …