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Vaughn Orchard apples and apple butter.
Orchards in northwestern Missouri grow scrumptious apples. Now is the time to go to any of the various orchards and buy apples already picked or to go pack up the kids and go pick your own. Maybe you stopped at an orchard on the way to or from Atchison, Kansas, last weekend if you had tickets to an opening showing of the new movie about Amelia Earhart’s life.
If not last weekend, perhaps you can plan a short trip this Saturday to take the kids to Weston, Missouri, to enjoy one or more of the orchards there, which will also be full of pumpkins and apple cider and other seasonal delights for kids and their parents and grandparents. The apples in the accompanying photo are Jonathan apples from the Vaughn Orchard at Weston. The photo also includes a jar of really good apple butter made at Vaughn’s.
If you get carried away with so many different kinds of apples to choose from at the orchards, never fear. The possibilities are almost endless for what you can do with apples besides that good old American standby, apple pie. For example, Jonathans are wonderful for eating and baking and cooking. Try them in apple crisp, cranberry salad, Waldorf salad, and fancy oatmeal recipes. Fuji apples are especially good this year. The problem with Fuji apples is that they disappear quickly, so plan to pick up an entire peck, if not a half bushel or bushel. Apples are good cored, quartered, and slathered with peanut butter for snacks or lunches. Also, you can make apple boats for snacks and lunches: core and slice apples into eighths; cut an orange in half and slice each half into wedges that are “seriously thin,” as Molly Katzen said about potatoes in a recipe in her cookbook Enchanted Broccoli Forest; skewer each orange wedge with a toothpick so that the toothpick acts like a mast to hold up the orange “sail”; stick one end of the toothpick into the apple so that the apple looks like a boat on the water and the orange looks like a sail.
Apples keep well for a long time if you keep them either in the refrigerator or in some other cool place. At least one vegan keeps her extra pecks and half pecks of apples in the trunk of her car this time of year or in a tightly covered bin on the balcony of her apartment because she always keeps too many apples on hand for the fridge. Enjoy the blessing of living in or near northwestern Missouri and visit an orchard to stock up on apples for all of the holidays ahead this year.
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