There’s always someone who has it worse off than we do and Colorado Springs Rescue Mission has been serving the area’s poor and needy for over 13 years. Demonstrating the love of Christ while serving about 100 meals per sitting (2,500 each week), they are much more than a soup kitchen. They are working on long-term solutions to poverty with ”life skills” education, a residential recovery “New Life” program and an Emergency Resource Center for the working poor, families with children and homeless individuals.

This morning we started making a batch of Leigh’s apple pies to take. At about 8:30 the boys were getting all the dry ingredients together to make the upper and lower crusts while I was cutting up the butter (1/2 lb per pie) and Leigh was orchestrating .

One was running the food processor while the other was mixing a batch in the KitchenAid. After all the crust dough was made, we refrigerated it in numbered batches and went about peeling, coring and cutting the apples and mixing the ingredients for the filling. By the time we were working on the third pie we had a pretty good system down between the four of us.

The boys were having a good time learing kitchen skills like food preparation, applying math to fractional measurements & cooking times and generally working for a good cause.

One pie at a time we formed the bottom crust, filled it and then laid on the top before brushing it with milk and sprinkling a little sugar on it. We baked them in batches for about an hour until bubbling as we cleaned the kitchen and then delivered them while they were still hot.

I think I’ve got the only 7 & 8 yr olds that can bake an apple pie from memory. Next week, turnovers?

Tags: Boys, Giving

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