Last weekend I participated for the first time in the tradition of making the Mittelkamp family apple dumplings. It is quite a production. The extravaganza began with a bushel of apples, 20 pounds of flour, 20 pounds of sugar, 7 pounds of brown sugar and a wholelotta butter! (Thanks Megan - I stole your stats for this blog post)
Luckily, we didn't have to hand peel and slice the apples. Sue and Megan have an apple machine that peels and slices the apple with a turn of a handle. That was fun to do! The day produced 56 dumplings, 4 crisps and 2 pies. There were even some apples left over to make some applesauce.
Brent and I have enjoyed our first dumpling of the season. It was delish. Brent likes to warm his up in the microwave and then pour milk over it.
Natalie had fun helping out by rolling out some dough too.
The new cousins had fun "laying around" together. 
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