Everything about Apple Savior in 2022: how and when it is celebrated

Apple Spas is celebrated on August 19 in 2022; it is a holiday with a fixed date, the so-called immutable one. Apple Spas is the second in the cycle of August holidays dedicated to the harvest. It is believed that on this day nature turns from summer to autumn, i.e. transforms

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Transfiguration of the Savior
And this amazingly coincides with the church holiday celebrated on this day - the Transfiguration of the Lord God and our Savior Jesus Christ. This is how three evangelists – Mark, Matthew and Luke – report this event:

“And after six days Jesus took Peter, James and John, and led them alone up to a high mountain, and was transfigured before them. His clothes became shining, very white, like snow, as a bleacher on earth cannot bleach. And Elijah appeared to them with Moses; and talked with Jesus” (Gospel of Mark, 9:2-13).

Icon of the Transfiguration of the Lord (Theophanes the Greek)

Why is Spas called Apple: the history of the holiday

“Three Saviors. First Savior - Honey Savior, the Cross is carried out. This means that summer is over, the honey can be broken out, the bee is not offended... it’s already gone wild. Second Savior - Yabloshny, Savior-Transfiguration, apples are sprinkled. And why? And here. Adam-Eve sinned, the serpent deceived them with an apple, but it was not ordered, because of sin! And Christ ascended the mountain and sanctified it. That's why they began to be careful. And whoever eats before sprinkling will get a worm in his stomach, and cholera will happen. And once sprinkled, there is no harm. And the third Savior is called the Walnut Savior, the nuts ripened after the Dormition. In our village there is a religious procession, the icon of the Savior is carried, and all the nuts are gnawed. It used to be that we would collect a bag of nuts for the priest, and he would give us milk noodles for breaking fasts.”

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I. Shmelev, “The Summer of the Lord”
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Interesting fact: the popular name of the holiday “Apple Savior” was surprisingly intertwined with the church name “Transfiguration of the Lord”; as a result, the holiday in Rus' was simply called the Transfiguration of the Savior.

Other names for Apple Spas:

• Second Spas
• Great Savior,
• Savior on the mountain
• Middle Spas,
• Feast of First Fruits],
• Pea day
• First autumns, autumns
• In Ukraine this holiday was called the Other Savior, the Great Savior
• In Belarus - Yablichny Spas, Vyaliki Spas, Syaredni Spas, Other Spas;
• Among the Serbs, this day was called Preobrazheje; among the Bulgarians - Pribrizine, Prebrazene, Priblizhina, Sotir, Stratir; in Poland it was called Pacskie Przemienienie.

History of the origin of the holiday

Apple Savior replaced the pagan holiday in honor of the apple harvest. Christians timed it to coincide with the Transfiguration of Jesus Christ on Mount Tabor.

According to the Gospel, the Savior, taking with him the disciples Peter, John and James, climbed to the top. Together they began to pray, during which the Messiah's face began to shine and his clothes became sparkling white. Suddenly, the prophets Moses and Elijah appeared before the disciples; a voice from heaven announced that Jesus Christ should be heard by the people and bring about the exodus of Israel from Egypt.

Having descended from the mountain, the Savior ordered his companions not to tell anyone about the event that had happened until he died and rose again. He also commanded them to collect apples for consecration by the Lord.

The Transfiguration took place in February 40 days before the death of Christ, but is celebrated in August. The holiday was postponed so that it did not coincide with the period of Lent. Now it is held 40 days before the Exaltation of the Honest and Life-Giving Cross of the Lord.

First Autumn: the first meeting of autumn

Autumn is a separate cycle of holidays associated with the welcoming of autumn, marking the change of season. It is clear that autumn does not come in one fell swoop, in one day, like everything in nature, it is a gradual process. The first meeting of summer and autumn takes place right on Apple Spas, August 19th. further in August there will be the second Autumn, the second meeting of autumn, and the third, marking the final arrival, will occur on September 21, after the “Indian summer”.

The first autumn is a joyful but troublesome holiday. People are grateful for the harvest, but work is still in full swing, harvesting is in full swing, and there is no time to rest.

Is it possible to eat apples before Apple Spas?

We have already said that the ban on eating the fruits of a new harvest before their consecration arose at the dawn of Christianity. In principle, the custom is very logical and reasonable: what is blessed by God will bring more benefit to a person. But modern life, especially in the city, is no longer subject to the agricultural cycle. Now we more often buy any products in the store, and they are available all year round, including the new harvest.

To answer the question of who should not eat apples before the Apple Savior, we need to remember that in the villages there is still a folk custom of prohibition. It concerns families with deceased children, as well as women who have had miscarriages or abortions. The Eastern Slavs believed that in the next world, children whose mothers had not eaten apples until that day were given gifts - heavenly apples, pears, grapes - on the Apple Savior. And those children whose mothers forgot about it and ate it get the stubs.

Women who lost their children and did not have time to baptize them took blessed apples to the graves of their dead children at Yablochny Spas and left them there with a special spell. It is believed that this facilitates and, over time, completely removes the program that turns the unbaptized, suspended soul of a child into a demon.

Therefore, if you have a history of the cases described above, I advise you to try not to eat local apples from the new harvest before the Apple Savior. Nowadays they are brought from all over the world - from Argentina, Africa, Chile... If you really want them, take them as a last resort. And it is better to take fresh apples blessed on the Second Savior to children’s graves on the basis of: one - to the one who is buried in it, the other - to the one to whom you want to give it. Ask for the transfer of the saving apple in your own words, say that you love the one who left. In general, everything here should come from the heart. Apple Spas is one of those rare days of the year when you can alleviate your situation and the post-death of a deceased or unborn child.

What not to do on Second Spas

In the church tradition, of the prohibitions on August 19, there is only a dietary restriction associated with the Dormition Fast. But, according to popular beliefs, on this holiday you cannot do the following:

1. Work activities are strictly prohibited, excluding helping children and the sick. You cannot wash, sew, clean the house, or work in the field or garden. It was believed that work activity could attract negative energy into the home.
2. Killing insects, even pests, is considered a bad omen. This applies to midges, mosquitoes, beetles, etc. There is even a belief that two flies landing on your hand will bring good luck if you do not drive them away.
3. Any noisy celebrations, quarrels and excessive consumption of alcoholic beverages are also not welcome. This rule especially applies to parishioners.

Most of the prohibitions in Yablochny Spas come from Slavic beliefs, so in most villages they try to adhere to them. Such traditions are especially preserved in remote regions.

What not to do at Apple Spas

Apple Spas is one of the favorite folk holidays. This day continued the cycle of harvest, satisfaction, joy, gratitude for a successful year. It was believed that on this day one must give thanks for what one managed to collect, receive, and achieve. Also on this day it was necessary to remember the ancestors, commemorate them, please them with a saving apple, thank them and ask for help in future matters.

On this day it is very good to help those in need; this is one of the few moments when you cannot accidentally “give away” your wealth. On the contrary, people who share their fruits and harvest with those in need on Apple Day receive a special blessing for this. Therefore, if everything is fine and prosperous with you, I advise you not to be greedy, take at least an extra kilogram of apples, consecrate them and distribute them, or leave them in the church; the ministers themselves will distribute them among those being served.

If possible, go to the cemetery, leave a blessed apple on the graves of your relatives (you can add other fruits). Light a candle, read a memorial prayer, if you don’t know, ask in your own words that everything will be fine with the deceased, thank them for giving you life and for the fact that this year you will have a harvest again.

Tea party at Apple Spas

Visit your relatives, treat them to blessed apples, bake something as a gift and sit down at the table together. Only this should not be a formality, violence against oneself. The atmosphere should be truly joyful, cozy, calm - like an August evening, when the sun gilds the country veranda, where the family has gathered for evening tea, the crazy smells of charlotte from “their” apples are already emanating from the table, children are fiddling and laughing, adults are talking and life seems so endless...

Apple Spas is a very joyful holiday, you need to try to evoke and maintain this feeling of universal joy. Try not to succumb to provocations, not to get irritated, and not to quarrel. Don't let others "lower" your sound on this day.

On this day it is strictly forbidden to offend nature. Actually, this should never be done at all, but on Apple Savior it is believed that God asks the earth and plants if anyone has offended them, and punishes the offenders.

Pictures (postcards) with the holiday “Apple Savior”

In Russia it is customary to congratulate each other on this holiday. Nowadays, postcards are often used: with images of the Son of God, apples, and a temple. They may contain inscriptions: short prayers, words of congratulations on the Transfiguration of the Lord. Such pictures are sent to each other by phone or given in person.

Send this prayer to your loved ones

Send this prayer to your loved ones

Send this prayer to your loved ones

What to sanctify in the church on Apple Savior

“They’re setting up a table for the eve. The golden-blue sexton carries a huge silver dish with a mountain of red apples on it, which came from Kursk. There are baskets and bundles all around on the floor. Gorkin and the watchman drag familiar baskets from the pulpit and move them “under the sprinkling, closer.” Everyone is fussing and having fun - not church at all. The priests and deacon are in extraordinary robes called “apple robes.” On the green and blue brocade, if you look closely from the side, large apples and pears and grapes are golden in the leaves - green, gold, blue: shimmering. The priests bless the water. Then the elder, in a purple kamilavka, reads a prayer for fruits and grapes over our apples from Kursk - an extraordinary, cheerful prayer - and begins to sprinkle the apples. He shakes his brush so much that the splashes fly like silver, sparkling here and there, separately sprinkles the baskets for the parish, then the bundles, the baskets... They go to the cross.”

. (Ivan Shmelev, “The Summer of the Lord”)

On Apple Savior in the church they usually consecrate various fruits, most often they are fruits, but if you want. You can also add vegetables. I also advise you to clarify, and if on the third, Nut Spas, nothing is blessed for you, put nuts in the basket at the Apple Spas. Take unpeeled, in shell: coconut, walnuts, almonds, etc., depending on what you like. These nuts will be useful to you throughout the year. At the same time, you can put fabric for embroidery or other needlework in the basket - but only that which you plan to use for yourself. For example, embroider a tablecloth, napkins, towels - of course, in a special way, with the right patterns, so that these things become real family amulets, and not just “textiles”.

Cart at Apple Spas

Let us remember that the second name of this holiday is Transfiguration. Therefore, you can also put jewelry made and charmed for beauty and charm into the basket for consecration. Of course, it is better to disguise everything in the basket except fruits and vegetables so as not to attract unnecessary attention. Fabric - on the bottom, decorations in the folds, nuts - between the apples, etc.

You need to collect a basket for consecration from the heart, with love and gratitude to the world that gave it all to you. So that when you look at her, your eyes will rejoice and your heart will warm.

About the product

The novel “The Summer of the Lord” by Shmelev, written in 1948 in Paris, is an autobiographical work. The book describes the life of a patriarchal merchant family through the eyes of a little boy. The usual way of life of the Russian merchants is shown through the church liturgical year.

To better prepare for a literature lesson, we recommend reading online a summary of “The Summer of the Lord” chapter by chapter. You can test your knowledge using a test on our website.

The material was prepared jointly with a teacher of the highest category, Kuchmina Nadezhda Vladimirovna.

Experience as a teacher of Russian language and literature - 27 years.

Rituals for Apple Spas

For a wish for a saving apple

It is believed that on the Transfiguration the sky opens, you can see God and make a wish that will surely come true (as on Epiphany or Christmas).

Therefore, I advise you to use a very simple but working ritual for the saving apple. The only condition is that the desire must be only for oneself and for the good. Those. It won’t work to wish for your husband’s salary to be raised or for his daughter to get married - let them wish for themselves. I really don’t recommend wishing that a nasty colleague be fired or that a man and his wife divorce and leave for you.

So, on August 19 you will need to bless the apples; first select one of them and remember. In church, light a candle to the icon of the Transfiguration and ask in your own words to bless your desire and “transform” the situation. When you arrive home, take the apple you wished for and eat it, imagining that your wish has come true. take your time, eat mindfully, enjoy the taste, savor it. At the same time, when you swallow the first piece, say: “What is dreamed up is far-fetched!”, On the second piece: “What is thought up will come true!” and on the third - “What will come true will not pass!”

I advise you to remove the seeds from this apple, dry it and set it aside, they will come in handy later.

A treat for the ancestors

On Apple Spas, as on all holidays of the harvest cycle, they remember and thank their ancestors, thereby “watering the roots” that feed you—the “branches.” On this day it is very good to cook something from apples, berries or seasonal fruits. I highly recommend baking a round pie with apples, and making a lattice of dough on top in the shape of an “orei” symbol.

Apple Pie with Orepei Lattice

Orepei (other names: “burdock”, “oak”, “well”) is a combed rhombus, a sign of the earth and ancestors. This symbol “catches” and attracts happiness, luck and prosperity, and also helps restore and strengthen connections between generations of the family.

Symbol "Orepei"

Charlotte dough will not work here, make a regular pie dough, if you are fasting, you can use lean dough.

While it is hot, place the pie on the window (lay down a light, clean cloth in advance), light a candle, in your own words invite your ancestors to taste the treat, thank them. Sit for a couple of minutes, listen to yourself - very interesting thoughts, images, and phrases may come to you.

Rolling out the disease with a saving apple (translation)

Bless 3 apples separately (put them in a bag next to the basket, for example). In church, light a candle in front of the icon of the Transfiguration, ask in your own words to take the disease and give it “transfiguration.” At home, roll three apples in turn over the problem area of ​​the body with the words “I roll the apple, I roll everything bad, everything bad, everything that hurts into the apple (list what worries you). I collect every drop and close it in an apple.” Take the apples out of the house, bury them in the ground, in separate holes, with the words “All the evil in the ground left me, it was covered with stones, it was covered with earth, I was transformed.”

Apples for spreading disease

This is not a panacea or a replacement for doctor’s prescriptions! This is an action to help, “complex therapy”, something that will patch up holes on the subtle plane in parallel with the treatment of the physical body.

Summary

Holidays

Lent

Clean Monday

On Clean Monday, “the house is cleaned.” Vanya recalls how Gorkin told yesterday that you need to prepare your soul for the bright holiday: “fast, fast, prepare for the Bright Day.” The old carpenter Gorkin is always next to Vanya and helps him understand the meaning of religious holidays and rituals.

Efimony

On Efimon, Vanya goes with Gorkin to the temple. This is his first time standing, and the boy is “a little scared.”

March drops

As Vanya falls asleep, he hears not gray dull rain knocking on the window, but “cheerful March drops.” He paints pictures of the arrival of the long-awaited spring, and his soul becomes light and joyful.

Lenten market

The next morning, Vanya and Gorkin go to the Lenten Market. Their road lies past the Kremlin, and the omniscient Mikhail Pankratovich tells the boy everything he knows about Moscow.

Annunciation

Part 1

Tomorrow all Orthodox Christians will have a “red day” - the Annunciation. Suddenly, in his father’s office, “the lark began to sing, sang and murmured, barely audible” - until that day he had been silent for more than a year.

Part 2

On Annunciation, the merchant brings a lot of birds to the merchant's house, and, according to the old custom, both the owner and the workers release them together. Vanya, releasing the little birds into the wild, feels great joy.

Easter

Vanya feels with all her heart, her young soul, how “extraordinary these days are – passionate, Christ’s days.” Gorkin leads Vanya to the temple, where the procession of the Cross begins.

Rozgovina

Festive tables are laid in the courtyard, the owners sit down at the table with the workers: this has been the custom since ancient times.

Queen of Heaven

The Iveron Icon of the Mother of God must be brought into the house, and on this occasion the yard is thoroughly cleaned. Everyone prays to the Intercessor, the icon is solemnly brought into the house, they walk around the barns, barnyard, and work bedrooms with it.

Trinity Day

On Ascension, they bake “Christ’s ladders” in the house and eat them carefully, crossing themselves: “whoever breaks the ladder will go to heaven and will not ascend, his sins are heavy.” All corners and icons in the house are decorated with birch branches. The church looks like a blooming garden - “the favorable summer of the Lord.”

Apple saved

Gorkin explains to the boy that at the Apple Spas the fruits must be sprinkled with holy water before eating, since “sin came through them.”

Christmas

At Christmas, “there are snowdrifts on the streets, everything is white,” and a few days before the holiday, “in the markets, in the squares, there is a forest of fir trees.” Under the icon, on the hay, they place kutya “made of wheat, with honey; infusion - from prunes, pears, sear.” All these treats are a gift to Christ.

Christmastide

Birds of God

Christmas morning. There are dizzying smells coming from the kitchen: “thick Christmas smells, homey smells.” Sergei Ivanovich wishes everyone a Merry Christmas and invites them to a festive, richly decorated table.

Lunch “for different people”

Poorly dressed people “sneak through the back door” into the merchant’s house. First of all, they warm themselves by the stove, and then they start eating a festive dinner.

King Solomon's Circle

Vanya’s “throat hurts,” and his parents go to the theater without him. The family gathers at the table, and Gorkin begins to guess in King Solomon's circle - who will get what.

Epiphany

It is bitterly cold at Epiphany. Gorkin washes Vanya with “holy water, completely ice cold.” For the first time, Vanya goes with adults to the Moscow River to watch people dive into the ice hole into the icy water.

Maslenitsa

Part 1

Sergei Ivanovich gives orders: the Reverend himself “will be at the pancakes on Friday.” In the kitchen, “the wide oven is blazing”; work is in full swing here. The owner of the house solemnly greets the bishop and begins to treat him.

Part 2

“On Saturday, after pancakes,” everyone goes down slides specially filled with ice. It's already full of people. Riding down such slides is a pleasure, “it takes your breath away and makes your heart drop.”

Joy

Icebreaker

Gorkin goes to the icebreaker with Vanya. The boy finds himself there for the first time and is amazed that “there is such and such a fair there, it’s really hot.” All the “random people,” the lost, the day laborers, work here.

Petrovka

Petrovsky fast or “Petrovki” - “light, summer fast.” Gorkin explains to the boy that he is so named in honor of the first apostles Peter and Paul, who “accepted the end of a martyr for Christ.”

Procession

"Donskaya"

Before the procession of the Cross, the banners are decorated with fresh flowers, the street is sprinkled with sand and grass, “so that it would be silent, as if they were being carried through the air.”

Cover

Gorkin tells Vanya how the Intercession “covers and fences the whole earth.” Under such a Veil nothing is scary, know yourself, work diligently and live according to your conscience.

Name day

Prelude

Autumn in a merchant's house is the most “birthday time”. At this time, Vanya, his father and mother, Gorkin, as well as other people not so close to the boy celebrate his name day. On Sergei Ivanovich’s name day, his relatives decide to surprise him with a hitherto unseen pretzel, on which the inscription “on Angel Day to the good owner” is emblazoned on top.

Celebration

When a luxurious pretzel is brought into the house, “a rich, sweet-almond spirit spreads throughout all the rooms,” and Sergei Ivanovich wipes away tears of happiness and kisses everyone.

Michaelmas

Mikhail Pankratovich celebrates his name day on Michaelmas Day. He receives expensive gifts from Vanya’s father, and the old man sincerely rejoices at them, like a child.

Filipovka

On Filippovka “more than an arshin of snow has piled up, and the frost is getting stronger day by day.” This is the name of the Nativity Fast, “from the Apostle Philip.” Sergei Ivanovich and his assistants begin to set up the “ice house”, and Vanya gives the task of “spanking” tickets for skiing from the mountains.

Christmas

As soon as carts with livestock begin to flock to Horse Square, it means that Christmas is coming. After the service, Vanya admires the starry sky, in which the “Christmas Star” especially stands out.

Ice house

During the construction of the Ice House in the Zoological Garden, the father is very afraid of an unexpected thaw: “everything will be lost, there will be a big scandal.” At its grand opening, hissing rockets are launched into the sky, illuminating the fairy-tale crystal castle with a million lights.

Cross veneration

On Saturday of the third week of Lent, before the Veneration of the Cross, “crosses” are baked in the house: “special cookies, with an almond flavor, crumbly and sweet.” During the Week of the Cross, a strict, sacred fast is observed. All the household are saddened by a bad omen: the “snake flower” has bloomed, promising a quick death.

Govenier

Vanya, along with the adults, is fasting for the first time. He does not eat sweets, washes away his sins in the bathhouse, on Friday before supper he asks everyone for forgiveness, and in church he repents of his childhood sins.

Palm Sunday

The house is decorated with lush, beautiful willow trees. Gorkin says that on this day the Lord raised Lazarus - “eternal life, which means there will be life for everyone, we will all be resurrected.”

On the holy

On the bright holiday of Easter, Vanya is in a great mood: he is happy with everything that surrounds him. The servants punish the janitor Grishka, who deceived everyone by talking, but did not do it himself. They doused him with ice water, and “in the evening they took him to a tavern and made peace.”

Yegoryev day

This year, “Easter happened late and took over Yegoryev Day.” The first swallows have arrived, but the birdhouses are still empty - a bad omen.

Radunitsa

Radunitsa is a “dead holiday,” as Gorkin likes to say. On this day, Orthodox Christians go to their graves and mentally rejoice that we will all be resurrected. “That’s why it’s called Radunitsa.”

After visiting the cemetery, Vanya and Gorkin learn terrible news: Sergei Ivanovich was seriously injured by a horse.

Sorrow

Holy joy

From morning to evening, guests from all over Moscow come to the merchant's house: they worry about Sergei Ivanovich, pray for his health. Over time, the father gets better, but his head is still “heavy, as if it were filled with lead, and as if needles were pricking.”

Living water

To “sink away” the remnants of the illness, the father goes to the “Thirty” - this is “the most expensive bathhouse, 30 kopecks, and only rich guests who are clean go to it.”

Moscow

After the bath, Sergei Ivanovich really felt better. Everyone is happy that the kind and fair owner is “alive and well.” In the company of Gorkin and Vanya, he goes to Vorobyovka and “looks at his native Moscow, looks for a long time.” One day, at a construction site, my father became very dizzy and almost fell off the scaffolding. The mood in the house became gloomy - my father’s “illness has returned.”

Silver chest

The doctor swears that the father does not take care of himself at all and, “with a little better head,” leaves on business. People bring him various miraculous icons and “healthy” malts, but Sergei Ivanovich does not get better.

Bitter days

His father’s illness has a depressing effect on Vanya, who is even afraid to look at him. Famous doctors come to Sergei Ivanovich, and at the consultation they come to the conclusion that the only way to relieve severe headaches and dizziness is surgery, but only one in ten survives it. All that remains is to trust in the will of God.

Blessing of children

After the Assumption, as always, cucumbers are pickled in the house. But they just don’t sing songs: my father is very bad. On the day of Ivan the Theologian, “mother, in tears,” asks Sergei Ivanovich to bless the children. He no longer sees anyone, but he will bless Vanya and his three daughters: Sonechka, Manya and Katyusha.

Unction

On Pokrov they chop cabbage in the house, but there is no former joy. Everyone knows “that there is no hope: Sergei Ivanovich is leaving.” The priests arrive, all the relatives gather - “leisurely, gracefully” the service of unction takes place for the father, who finds it difficult to even sit on the pillows.

Demise

On his name day, Sergei Ivanovich feels so bad “that he can’t even utter a word.” All day long they bring congratulatory cakes to the birthday boy, “relatives and step-relatives come and cope like daddy.” By evening, Sergei Ivanovich quietly dies.

Funeral

The children are led to the coffin to say goodbye to their deceased father for the last time. At the sight of his father’s wrinkled yellow face, Vanya feels bad. Because of the excitement he has experienced, his legs cannot hold him up at all, and he cannot go to the funeral. The cold autumn rain is pouring, “the street is black with people,” there is a silver coffin in the courtyard - “this is the last farewell, farewell to my home, to everything that happened...”.

Recipes for Apple Spas

Charlotte

This is probably the most famous, popular, simple and at the same time favorite pastry with apples. It seems to me that all girls start learning to bake with it, because it’s easier just to buy it).

Charlotte with apples

There are a huge number of options for preparing charlotte, but we will make the classic version.

You will need:

• 1 cup of sugar
• 1 cup flour
• 3 eggs
• 5 apples

Preparation:

• Wash the apples (if store-bought, it is better to peel them), remove the core, cut them.

• Beat eggs with sugar for 5-7 minutes, add flour, mix, you get a liquid dough.

Tip: Take the time to beat the eggs with sugar, this will give you a meringue-like crust on top of the charlotte.

• Lightly grease the baking sheet with oil, sprinkle with breadcrumbs, or simply line it with baking parchment. You can lay it out in layers: pour half of the dough into the mold, lay out the apples, pour in the remaining dough.
• Place in an oven preheated to 180 degrees and bake for 40-60 minutes (depending on the oven). Check the readiness with a toothpick as soon as the delicious smell of pie wafts through the kitchen: if there is no sticky dough, the charlotte is ready.

Apple pie

This option is a little more complicated than charlotte, but also not at all troublesome. And most importantly, it is easy to make decorations from such dough, so you can make the same pie to treat your ancestors. Let me remind you what it should look like:

Apple Pie with Orepei Lattice

You will need:

• 1 kg of apples, preferably sweet and sour or sour. In principle, Antonovka is always a win-win option)
• 150 g sugar
• 200 g butter
• 5 eggs
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 600–700 g flour

Cream (if you don't like it, skip this step)

• 500 g sour cream (15–20%)
• 150 g sugar

Preparation

• Grind butter with sugar
• Add eggs, mix
• Add baking powder and flour, knead the dough
• Peel the apples, remove the core, cut into thin slices.
• Line a baking tray (approximately A4 size) with baking paper or grease it with butter.
• Place 2/3 of the dough and smooth it out.
• Place apples on the dough.
• Roll out the remaining dough into strips and place them on the pie in a diamond lattice pattern.
• Place the pie in an oven preheated to 180 degrees and bake for 30–35 minutes.
• For the cream, mix sour cream with sugar and pour over the hot pie. Cut after cooling.

Baked apples

An elementary, quick, tasty, and most importantly, healthy dessert!

Baked apples

• We take apples (choose strong, large ones, Antonovka will work perfectly again), cut them into halves, and cut out the core.
• Place on a baking sheet lined with baking paper or in a mold, pour half a teaspoon of sugar into the indentations (you can replace it with honey, you can put frozen or fresh berries).
• Place in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for 15-20 minutes.
• Similarly, you can bake apples in the microwave: prepare them in the same way, put them in the microwave at maximum power for 2-3 minutes.

Crafts from apples for Apple Saving

Crafts from apples and paper for children for Apple Spas

To make a paper apple you will need a cardboard toilet paper roll.

Paper apple

1. Our apple will be made of paper, so we will need colored paper, glue, and scissors.
2. Cut reddish colored paper into long strips 2 cm wide. Fold the first 2 strips with a cross and glue them in the center. Glue subsequent strips to them, also fixing them in the center.
3. Raise the ends of the strips and glue them together. The apple is ready.
4. Now you need to make a leaf. Let's fold a small rectangle of greenish paper diagonally like an accordion.
5. Use scissors to “round off” the ends of the accordion. Let's unfold it - a corrugated leaf comes out. Cut out a stem from brown paper.
6. Glue the leaf and stem to the apple. Cut out a caterpillar from greenish paper and insert it between the reddish stripes. We will thread a thread loop into the apple stalk.