What to do when you flub a recipe

Anyone can flub a recipe. But it’s far worse when you realize that the flub is because of a mistake you made more than 40 years ago! That’s what happened to me on my first try preparing Edith Teel’s Apple Roll, one of the recipes included in the...

Three easy ways to prep apples for baking

When I decided to start trying the recipes for Tehachapi apples published in the 1979 edition of The Original Tehachapi Apple Book, I knew I was going to need some help. Prepping apples for baking can be a tedious chore. Coring, peeling, slicing, dicing and grating...

To sift, or not to sift?

To sift, or not to sift, that’s the question when it comes to dry ingredients. You may notice that some of the recipes submitted for The Original Tehachapi Apple Book call for sifting dry ingredients, and others do not. Recipes are often passed along from one...