{"id":760,"date":"2009-10-11T20:00:21","date_gmt":"2009-10-12T02:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/?p=760"},"modified":"2010-01-07T21:38:43","modified_gmt":"2010-01-08T03:38:43","slug":"how-do-you-make-an-apple-puff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/?p=760","title":{"rendered":"How do you make an Apple Puff?"},"content":{"rendered":"\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"rss\"<\/a>

…Chase him around the yard!\u00a0 (Sorry, that was the best apple joke I could find).<\/p>\n

Our normal apple orchard is Oakwood Fruit Farm<\/a> in Richland Center.\u00a0 This year we decided to be a bit more adventurous and drive the extra 30 minutes to Gays Mills.\u00a0 Gays Mills is a tiny little town with with a roughly 1:1 apple orchard to resident ratio.\u00a0 The best orchards (for tourists, anyways,) are all lined up on highway 171 just east of town.\u00a0 Gays Mills suffered so much damage to its downtown during the flooding a few years ago that they are actually relocating much of the town to higher ground.\u00a0 I thought they only did that kind of thing on the Simpsons…<\/p>\n

\"apples\"<\/p>\n

We actually took two trips out to Gays Mills this fall.\u00a0 The first time the weather was just too warm to count as our official “apple-day” for the year, so we had to repeat.\u00a0 Apple-day demands cool weather.\u00a0 The two most impressive orchards were Kickapoo<\/a> and Sunrise<\/a>.\u00a0 Pictured above are…some apples.\u00a0 Can’t remember what kind.\u00a0 Don’t bother spending too much time looking at them, you’ll get to seem them plenty, this picture will be replacing our title image (which we will be rotating with the seasons).\u00a0 On the first trip we bought Honeycrisp apples (developed at the University of Minnesota).\u00a0 Some people will try to make you feel bad for liking Honeycrisps because they are not “challenging” enough, because they are too mainstream, too… accessible.\u00a0 Those same people will tell you you should be eating Cornish Gilliflower<\/a> or Hyslop Crab<\/a>.\u00a0 Forget them.<\/p>\n

On our second trip we picked up some Tsugaru, which had the same crispness as honeycrisp, but were slightly less sweet with a hint of banana.\u00a0 They also ran a little smaller than honeycrisp.\u00a0 I am a big fan of these because the lower sugar content and smaller size meant I could eat twice as many before I got to inevitable apple-day sugar headache*.\u00a0 Leslie also got some Orange Winter apples for baking, but hasn’t done anything with them yet.<\/p>\n

\"appleciderdonuts\"<\/p>\n

My real reason for loving our annual apple adventure isn’t the apples themselves though.\u00a0 It’s the apple cider donuts.\u00a0 Actually, come to think of it, apple cider donuts are my real reason for loving autumn in general.\u00a0 I was very happy with the version found at Sunrise (pictured).\u00a0 Kickapoo had some good apple treats as well, including a tasty apple fritter (still not as good as Greenbush Bakery’s<\/a> though) and an apple pizza thing Leslie loved.\u00a0 It’s still prime apple season (despite the fact that it snowed yesterday) so go enjoy the bounty of the orchard.\u00a0 And bring me back some donuts.<\/p>\n

\"applefritterandpizza\"<\/p>\n

*The proper way to treat an apple headache is to find some fresh, salty cheese curds to counteract the sweetness.\u00a0 If you overdo the curds, just balance them out with an apple cider donut or two and take a nap!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…Chase him around the yard!\u00a0 (Sorry, that was the best apple joke I could find). Our normal apple orchard is Oakwood Fruit Farm in Richland Center.\u00a0 This year we decided to be a bit more adventurous and drive the extra 30 minutes to Gays Mills.\u00a0 Gays Mills is a tiny little town with with a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[33,30,34,35],"class_list":["post-760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-driftless-area-towns","category-farms","tag-dessert","tag-fruit","tag-gays-mills","tag-orchard","no-featured-image"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=760"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1235,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions\/1235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}