Sunday, September 11, 2022

pass the apples

 The Johnny Appleseed Festival (JAF) is almost upon us.  For the first time in several years I won't be able to help bake cookies, because I will be traveling. I am not too upset about this.  It is hard work.  Members of our church bake cookies to sell at the JAF every year.  It is the major fundraiser to support our day school.  First Pres bakes cookies and one of our neighboring churches, St. John's Lutheran, bakes pies, apple of course.  Today I stopped by the pie church to pick up my order of two frozen pies.  Pre-sales are done in both churches.  There were several people working away in their kitchen when I walked in; peeling apples, slicing apples and generally working away like little elves assembling pies.  My friend, a member there, from whom I had ordered my pies, introduced me and explained that I was from the church that baked the cookies.  One of the gentlemen piped up and said that pies were much harder to bake than cookies.  But when I informed him that we bake 14,000 cookies he allowed that that was probably almost as hard as the 1500 pies they bake.  Their pies are delicious but our cookies, especially the molasses ones in my opinion, are sublime.  Nothing like a little church rivalry to produce amazing results.

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