Saturday August 30th
We lost our broadband on Saturday and it seems we won’t have it back for some time as there is a break in the cable underground. Our lovely neighbour is very generously letting us use hers so I can catch up with everything.

I spent much of the day baking and having a lovely time baking cakes to be sold at Roots tomorrow when it will be Apple Day. I made a Ukrainian Apple Cake and a Spiced Toffee Apple Cake.

Ukrainian Apple Cake

Spiced Toffee Apple Cake

Sunday August 31st

And then it was Apple Day! And what a day  – so many apples were chopped and pressed and juiced,  bottled and pasteurised, so many cakes were enjoyed, so much Roots Ratatouille eaten for lunch, and many Dorset buttons were made – altogether a very busy and very enjoyable day.

Apples!

The process

Local varieties

Washing

Chopped apples now in the scratter

Layering the scratted apples in the press

Attaching the handle

Winding the press

Juice

One of the activities available was learning how to make Dorset buttons and as regular readers will know, I love making – so I had a go and made a button of an apple tree.

Thanks to M for being such a brilliant teacher.