Are you planning on processing some apples?  Perhaps making some applesauce to can or freeze?  Prepping pies to last you until next season?  Or does your family just eat A LOT of apples? We offer special bushel pricing at Lapacek’s Orchard.  If you call ahead to order your bushel you can save $3/bushel! 

Call ahead to order your bushel and save 608-635-4780

What is a bushel?  Well – it’s a volume measurement.  We fill the bushel box as much as we possibly can without damaging the apples and that’s what you get.  It ways approximately 40 lbs.  One bushel of apples makes approximately 18 quarts of applesauce or 10 quarts of apple butter or 6 cups of dried apples, or 16 apple pies.

We also sell apples by the peck (approximately 10lbs), 1/2 peck (approximately 5lbs) and 1/4 pecks (approximately 2.5lbs).

This comes directly from the Wisconsin Apple Grower Association Cookbook.

• Store small quantities in your refrigerator, in vented plastic bags in the crisper – between 34 and 40 degrees Fahrenheit. Don’t allow them to freeze.
• Because apples can absorb odors from other foods stored in the same area, keep apples in plastic bags. The plastic also helps retain their own moisture.
• Apples ripe six to ten times faster at room temperature than when refrigerator. One or two days sitting on your countertop and the fresh crunch of your apple is lost forever.
• Dipping cut apples in lemon juice helps prevent apple discoloration.
• Baked apples in the microwave are quick and easy.
• Spread apple slices with peanut butter for an easy children’s snack; or dip slice in honey and roll in granola.