Autumn's Here! Carol's Apple Crisp



Me with Memo - 6 weeks old and Stephen on the shore of
Lake Ontario, NY

After living most of their lives in and about the New York metropolitan area, my dad took a job as Superintendent of Schools in Barker, NY. It is up along the fruit belt of New York south of Lake Ontario and between Buffalo and Rochester.....very cold country! They bought a farm and became part time farmers. They rented the land for cattle grazing. Got fresh milk from the farm down the street. Picked apples, pears, peaches and other fruits from local groves. And created a huge garden they tended to ...so did we if we were around!

Memo was 1 1/2 years old the first time he visited the farm. He loved Popie's tractor and watching the cows. Liz arrived at 5 weeks to visit the farm. We spend one Christmas there and got hit with about 4 ft of snow. The kids first time being in snow!

During that visit, I remember putting our clothes in a drawer in my old dresser upon arrival. One evening I went to grab something out of the drawer and a mouse surprised me!!! I screamed and shut the drawer. My brother, Stephen grabbed the drawer and took it downstairs and out the back door and dumped the contents of the drawer onto the open back porch. The mouse took off and ran around the side of the porch and into a crack under the basement door! That mouse was no dummy! He was not going to be outside in 10* below zero and 4 ft of snow. I put my things back into my suitcase and zipped it up from then on!



The farmhouse in Barker, NY



Carol's Apple Crisp:

Peel 6 apples - preferably Macintosh, Granny's or Braeburn - dice

1 cup flour

3/4 cup packed brown sugar

3/4 tsp salt

1 egg

1/2 tsp cinnamon

1/2 cup butter

1/4 cup sugar & 1 tsp cinnamon

Peel and dice the apples and place in a greased casserole dish. Mix together the flour, brown sugar, salt, egg and cinnamon. Sprinkle the mixture over the apples. Melt the butter and pour over the entire mixture. Then sprinkle with sugar/cinnamon mixture over entire casserole dish.

Bake 350* for 1 hour.

Serve with whipped cream or vanilla ice cream or both!!



Popie on the tractor moving piles of snow!