My west coast brother has informed me that today is "National Apple Dumpling Day." Doesn't that sound delicious? And so perfect for this time of year. Sadly, I don't have any access to apple dumplings right now but, happily, I will soon have access to apple pies. Basically the same deliciousness, just in a different shape.
Every year, in September (this year the 20th and 21st) we here in Fort Wayne enjoy the Johnny Appleseed Festival, where over 200 vendors sell all manner of crafts, antiques and foods (including apple pies) and children can play on reproductions of toys from the 19th century and enjoy mazes and other activities. This is the 50th year for this event which is held in Johnny Appleseed Park, site of Johnny Appleseed aka John Chapman's grave. He lived in the Fort Wayne area for the last ten years of his life after many years of travelling around the area planting apple and other fruit trees. Whether or not he actually wore a tin pot on his head as a hat I don't know, but it's a good story. The name of our local baseball team is the Tin Caps, and now you know why.
But back to pies. A friend of mine attends St. John's Lutheran Church where they bake hundreds of pies every year to be sold at the festival. Luckily I know, thanks to my friend, that the same pies can be purchased frozen at the church. I have ordered three and will be picking them up on Sunday.
After carefully examining the situation, my spouse has informed me that we do not have room for three pies in our freezer, so we will need to bake one of them right away.
So this Sunday we will be enjoying some church made, home baked apple pie. So yummy. Who needs dumplings?
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