Apples Lead to Long Life

What a nice surprise when I arrived home last week and someone had left me a bag of assorted apples. I guessed the giver immediately as I had just been talking to her earlier in the day about how I loved apples.

Our local grocery stores have lots of apples for sale. What’s your favorite variety? There are Braeburn, Granny Smith, Fuji, Golden and Red Delicious, Pink Lady, in all about 7,500 varieties.

And you can do so much with apples, just eat one with some salt or peanut butter, make apple salad with celery and walnuts, apple dumplings, crisp or cake, apple juice, candied apples, baked apples, stewed apples and of course, apple pie.

Minnie Pearl’s Cookbook gives the best apple pie recipe. Melt 1/2 cup butter and add 1 1/4 cup sugar, 1 teaspoon cinnamon and 1/4 teaspoon salt. Stir in one beaten egg. Fold in 2 cups of chopped apples. Pour mixture into an unbaked pastry shell. Bake for 10 minutes at 400 degrees, then reduce heat to 350 degrees for 45-50 minutes. This recipe is suppose to be for six servings. I doubt that, more like two.

Apples are beneficial to our health, remember the old saying, “An apple a day, keeps the doctor away.”

My mother must have eaten a lot of apples in her life time, she turns 94 today.