The Apple Book Blog
Watch our blog for apple baking tips, the latest information about Tehachapi apples, articles about Tehachapi apple history and updates on the publication of the next edition of The Original Tehachapi Apple Book.
What’s going on with this website?
A funny thing happened a few years ago when I was living in Oregon and working on this project. As I started making the recipes published in The Original Tehachapi Apple Book, I started remembering the people who sent them in to be published and thinking about...
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 first edition of The...
Pears, not apples, brought my family to Tehachapi
In an earlier post, I mentioned that I have lived in Tehachapi many times. It's appropriate to note that it was fruit that first drew my family to Tehachapi. Not apples, but pears. Tehachapi Old Timers are aware that the big piece of vacant land on the east side of...
Tehachapi apples: A ‘bite’ of history
From The Original Tehachapi Apple Book, Published 1979 • This history covers only through 1979 By Judy Barras (Lee) Crisp, crunchy, sweet Tehachapi Apples have grown in the region for more than 100 years. One of the loveliest sights in the area occurs in springtime...
The 2020 apple season in Tehachapi
As summer begins to give way to fall, an important question in Tehachapi each year is when will apple season begin? As usual, the Tehachapi News has provided an overview of the 2020 apple season, with reports from growers. According to the Sept. 18, 2020,...
An introduction (and my first apple pie)
I've realized that I haven't actually introduced myself here. My name is Claudia Elliott and I've gone by that name since my marriage to Chuck (Best-Husband-Ever) in 1986 (almost half my life). But my maiden name was Claudia Galloway and in between, I was known as...
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 cook to...
