With the 36th annual Apple Butter Frolic slated for Oct. 3 in Lower Salford, Ellis Kriebel of Harleysville thought this would be a timely photo to use.


According to Kriebel, “busy making apple butter on the Kriebel Farm on Fretz Road, Lower Salford, adjacent to the Salford Schwenkfelder Church are sisters-in-law Sarah N. (Kriebel), wife of Samuel H. Freed Jr., and Rosa Idella (Freed), wife of Isaac Vincent Kriebel.”

The long-handled paddle they are using stirs the apple butter, being made in the huge pot over the open fire.

He also noted that “apple butter on buttered bread and on fried scrapple was often a part of the breakfast meal in the mid 1930s, when this photo was taken.”

Thanks, Ellis.

And if you want to check out how apple butter was made, visit the Apple Butter Frolic on Oct. 3.

It runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., rain or shine, at the Indian Creek Road Farm, Lower Salford.

Parking is available at Harleysville Insurance, 355 Maple Ave., Harleysville, with continuous shuttle buses traveling to the Frolic.

Highlights include fresh cooked scrapple, corn pies, sausage sandwiches, funnel cake, ground cherry pies, demonstrations of corn shelling with a dog-powered treadmill and corn binding with horses.

There also will be demonstrations of crafts such as rug hooking, quilting and fraktur drawing, plus children’s activities.

Admission is $6 for adults; $2 for ages 6 to 12; ages 6 and younger are free. Proceeds support the Mennonite Heritage Center. No pets please. Call (215) 256-3020