Applesauce Weekend in Delmar, IA

This past weekend we headed to Iowa to spend time with my family and go visit my Grandma Powers in Delmar, IA. My sister-in-law Colleen had a great idea of getting together and have Grandma show us how she made applesauce. Growing up we always had homemade applesauce, apple jelly, and apple butter. However Grandma never had us help other than to bring in the apples from their mini orchard and throw the bad apples across the ditch in to the field. That was our only job as grandchildren when it came to the apple process. So this weekend we learned a little family recipe and had a good day hanging out with the girls.

Here we all are with the whole apple washing/coring/slicing process.

Of course we had to make a couple apple pies as well.
Boiling the apples. The peels actually just kind of fall off - didn't know that until this weekend.
My Grandma had this tool (not sure what it was called, Colleen called it a rice-something) but it was the key to making this all very simple. You put the boiled apples in there and just turned the crank both ways and it took the skin off and any seeds that might have made it and you just got the juiced apples.


Here is Grandma playing Patty Cake with Megan.

Shucking some sweet corn for dinner as well. It was quite the feast with salmon, potato salad, green beans, french bread, corn, and of course applesauce and apple pies for dessert. Abby actually only got a couple of layers off the corn before she had enough of it, then we had her just pick off the silk.
Grandma Powers and Megan checking each other out.
Four generations of Powers women.
All the ladies who cooked and prepared all day. It was a very good day.

This weekend we are actually STAYING HOME!! Can you believe it?? We have Tim's company picnic on Saturday so I'm sure there will be pictures of Abby on bounce houses and running around. She pretty excited about it. I'm looking forward to catching up on some things around the house which have been seriously neglected with all the traveling.