…but it may bring back memories of a place long ago. Country Fair time has arrived! Now is the opportunity to recapture the nostalgia of visiting Grandmother’s farm in the fall. The smell of smoke wafting up from cooking fires; the pleasant aroma of spices tickling the nose; and the beautiful colors of the changing leaves can be relived at Pohick Church on September 29, 30, and October 6, when apple butter is made at the Country Fair. It is Apple Butter Time, and it will be made the old fashioned way!

            Eighty bushels of apples will be processed into the very famous Apple Butter - a best seller every year. Bring a paring knife and cutting board on Saturday, and hopefully stay all day Saturday and all day Sunday. Even an hour or two of volunteered time is useful! Any and all help is welcome! Work will start on Saturday at 7:00 am and very early on Sunday. Two kettles are also made on Fair Day and help is needed there also. A complete schedule is below and will be in the Church bulletin as the event draws closer. There will be plenty of work to keep everyone gainfully employed both days. It is a great opportunity to meet other parishioners of this great Church, and a very good chance of having just plain old fun! 

            Sugar: it takes about 200 lbs. to make the Apple Butter. Donations of sugar are needed. Please leave a bag or two in the kitchen marked “Apple Butter Sugar.” Brown “grocery bags” are also needed.

            Every volunteer is needed. All volunteer help is indispensable. Without volunteers, it just won’t happen. Please plan to come and relive a part of life that has been all but forgotten!

2007 Apple Butter Schedule

Friday, 28 September • Apple Butter Setup
Noon - 5:00 pm Setup (Kettles, firewood, etc)

Saturday, September 29 • Apple Sauce Day
7:00 - 10:00 am Wash and cut up apples and start cooking
8:00 am - 3:00 pm Cook apples into applesauce (Many stirrers needed!)
3:00 - 5:00 pm Clean up/Setup for next day

Sunday, September 30 • Apple Butter Day
3:00 am - 3:00 pm Cook applesauce into
Apple Butter (Many stirrers needed!)
10:45 am Apple Butter Eucharist
2:00 - 4:00 pm Canning of the Apple Butter (All hands needed!)
4:00 - 6:00 pm Tear down and cleanup
6:00 pm - ? Apple Butter Social

Friday - Saturday, October 5 - 6 • Fair Day
11:00 pm Setup
12:00 am - 12 noon Cook 2 kettles of Apple Butter
12 noon - 1:00 pm Canning of the Apple Butter
1:00 - 3:00 pm Cleaning of the kettles

Sunday, October 7 • Fair Tear Down Day
8:00 - 11:00 am Tear down and store items
11:00 am - 1:00 pm Bratwurst cookout

Sugar Needed!