10lb. tubs of Freshly Pitted Tart Cherries for Pies
Available July 18 thru July 28
$21.95 per tub
July Homegrown Crops (available when ripe)
Try making your own pickles with our pickle mixes. Choose from bread & butter, kosher, sweet, or dill. Some mixes do not require canning! Stock up when small pickling cucumbers come into season and let the kids help make your favorite kind of pickle!
Pick Your Own Berries Approximately June 10-early July (weather and enough ripe berries permitting)
Monday-Friday 7a.m.-7p.m. Saturday 8a.m.-5p.m. and Sunday 12p.m.-5p.m.
Call 330-533-4161 for updates
How to enjoy Homegrown Strawberries
Our strawberries are in season until the first week of July
It’s time to order our famous 10 lb. tubs of freshly pitted tart cherries to pick up in mid July.
Our cherries take just minutes to freeze for great pies all year – no pitting – tastes great. Call now to place your order – this is the only time of year for fresh sour cherries – approximately $20-$22 per tub (final price set in early July by the Michigan cherry growers).
Call 330-533-4161 to place your order.
First Homegrown Vegetable of the Season
Asparagus – all tender – hand snapped
Available through end of May** weather permitting
To Freeze Asparagus:
· Cut asparagus into sections
· Blanch 3 minutes
· Plunge into cold water to stop the cooking process
· Put into freezer bags
· Use within one year
Featured Product from our Market
Our own freshly ground natural peanut butter – honey-roasted peanut butter – almond butter
· Our nut butters do not contain added sugars, salt or hydrogenated oils
· They taste fresh and natural and are better for you than commercial butters
· We grind our butters several times per week
· Try apples dipped in peanut butter – yummy!!
Enjoy an afternoon on the Farm
· Feed the fish in our lake
· Grab an ice cream cone (we carry Hershey’s ice cream)
· Sit a spell, on the deck, and absorb the scenery
· Play catch with Bonnie our Border Collie
· Picnic at the playhouse with the children
First Place
Carol Sudzina
Campbell, Ohio
Apple Bars
2 cups flour
½ cup sugar
½ tsp baking powder
½ tsp salt
1 cup margarine
2 beaten egg yolks (save the whites0
6 baking apples, peeled, cored and sliced thin
¾ cup sugar
¼ cup flour
1 tsp cinnamon
2 lightly beaten egg whites just till foamy
Powdered sugar for sprinkling
Combine the 2 cups of flour, ½ cup sugar, baking powder, and salt. Cut in the margarine as for pie crust. Stir in egg yolks. Mixture will be crumbly. Divide mixture. Press half into the bottom only of a 9×13x2 inch pan. Set aside. Combine apples, the remaining sugar, flour, and cinnamon. Arrange apples over bottom crust. Crumble remaining dough over top of apples. Drizzle egg whites over top of crumbs. Bake @350 degrees for 50 minutes. Cool. Run a knife around the outer edges then cut into 24 bars. Sprinkle powdered sugar over top. Place in cupcake liners or picnics or parties.
Second Place
Barbara Sannes
Salem, Ohio
Sour Cream-Apple Pie
1 Pillsbury refrigerated pie crust from 15 oz box), softened as directed on box
Filling
1 ¼ cups sour cream
¾ cup granulated sugar
¼ cup all purpose flour
¼ tsp salt
2 tsp vanilla
1 egg
6 cups ¼ inch slices peeled baking apples
Topping
½ cup all purpose flour
½ cup chopped walnuts
¼ cup packed light brown sugar
½ tsp ground cinnamon
Dash salt
3 tablespoons cold butter or margarine
Heat oven to 400F. Unroll pie crust in 9” glass pie plate as directed on box for one crust filled pie. In large bowl beat sour cream, granulated sugar, flour, salt, vanilla, and egg with wire whisk until well blended. Stir in apples. Pour into crust lined pie plate.
Bake 15 minutes. Reduce oven temperature to 350 F and bake 30 minutes longer.
Meanwhile, in medium bowl, mix all topping ingredients except butter. With pastry blender or fork cut in butter until mixture looks like coarse crumbs. Refrigerate until ready to use.
Sprinkle topping over pie. Bake 20 to 25 minutes longer or until topping is golden brown. Cool completely on cooling rack, about 2 hours. Cover and refrigerate any remaining pie.
Third Place
Rochelle Masteller
Killeen, Texas
Caramel Apple Ice Cream Treats
1 ½ cups half & half
6 egg yolks
¾ cup white sugar
½ tsp vanilla
¾ tsp cinnamon
1 ½ cups heavy cream
1 ½ to 2 cups applesauce** see below
Applesauce
5 Gala apples, peeled, quartered, and cored
½ cup water
½ cup white sugar
2 Tbs. brown sugar
1 Tbs cinnamon
1/8 tsp nutmeg
Heat apples and water to boiling with lid on. Cook 5-10 minutes until soft. Add rest of ingredients and return to boil. Cook 3-5 minutes and mash to desired consistency. Makes 1 ½ - 2 cups applesauce, depending on size of apples.
To make Ice Cream
Scald half & half in saucepan. (Do not boil). In separate bowl, whisk egg yolks, sugar, and vanilla. Gradually whisk in scalded cream, slowly to yolks don’t scramble. Add spice and return to saucepan. Heat and continue to stir until thick. (10 minutes) Do not boil. Remove from heat and whisk in heavy cream and applesauce. Refrigerate until chilled. Once chilled, add mixture to freezer bowl and stir for 15-20 minutes. Place in freezer.
When frozen, scoop ice cream and roll in crushed walnuts. Top with caramel ice cream topping.
Thank you you to the 40+ entrants in our first ever Apple Dessert Contest. What diversity! All of our entrants were very worthy!
Congratulations to our top three!
First Place
Carole Sudzina
Cambell, Ohio
Second Place
Barbara Sannes
Salem, Ohio
Third Place
Rochelle Masteller
Killeen, Texas
White House Weekend is Saturday and Sunday, March 21st and 22nd. The annual event features a unique blend of fun and food that the entire family can enjoy. This weekend has become a sure sign that spring is definitely on the way. Hours of the event are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday the 21st, and from Noon to 5 on Sunday the 22nd.
Our First Annual Apple Recipe Contest will take place on Saturday, March 28th. A panel of celebrity judges will determine the three top winners of apple-based desserts brought in on the day of the event. Judging starts at 1:00 p.m. Entry forms, printed recipes, and the entry fee are due by March 23rd. CLICK HERE for the entry form.
Prizes include: cash for first place along with apples for a year. White House gift certificates and a bushel of apples will be awarded for 2nd and 3rd place winners. The $5 entry fee will be donated to Second Harvest Food Bank. 70 bushels of fresh White House apples will also be given to the Food Bank following the event. White House will also be collecting non-perishable food for the Food Bank at the start of the weekend celebration on March 21st and will collect until end of day March 28th.
Completed entries can be mailed and received by White House Fruit Farm no later than March 23, 2009. Please mail or deliver entry information to: White House Fruit Farm, Apple Dessert Recipe Contest, 9249 State Route 62, Canfield, OH 44406. CLICK HERE for the entry form.
Second Harvest Food Bank provides food to 155 hunger relief organizations in Columbiana, Mahoning and Trumbull counties. They include church pantries, homeless shelters and soup kitchens, shelters for battered women and after school programs. In 2008, the Food Bank distributed 6.2 million pounds of food.
Our homegrown Apple varieties in Season:
· Red and Golden Delicious
· Fuji
· Gala
· Braeburn
· Cameo
· Jonagold
· Crispin
· Empire
· Ida Red
· Winesap
Winter is a great time to purchase local apples. They are a wonderful low-calorie fruit for lunches or snacks. Make fresh applesauce or baked apples for a side dish. Bake apples pies, dumplings or turnovers for an easy dessert. Apples are one of the only local foods now available and the winter quality is excellent.
Visit our market and enjoy a cup of steaming hot apple cider as you shop. We are open Tuesday through Saturday from 9-5 and Sunday from noon to 5. Don’t forget the donuts!
How to Make Fresh Applesauce
Peel, core, and quarter 3-4 lbs. of apples (Empire, Ida Red, Winesap Jonagold)
¼ cup brown sugar
¼ cup white sugar
1 cup water
Cinnamon to taste
Put all ingredients into large pot, cover and bring to a boil. Lower heat and simmer for 20-30 minutes.
Remove from heat. Mash sauce with a potato masher for chunky sauce or run through a food mill for smooth sauce
Refrigerate when cool.
Try serving applesauce warm as a side dish. Mix with yogurt or serve with ice cream. Use Golden Delicious apples for sauce without added sugar.
Christmas on the Farm December 13 9a.m.-5p.m. and December 14 Noon-5p.m.
Farm Fresh Holiday Ideas
Fresh Fruit and Specialty Baskets
Our fruit baskets are unique to the area because we use five varieties of our own apples as well as other premium fruit. Our baskets will delight not only the eye but the taste buds as well! We also add cheese, crackers, snack mixes, jams, muffins, and more to make your baskets special. Can’t decide? Stop out and we can customize to your taste. We deliver in the local area.
Looking for a gift for the out-of-town relative? We ship our own apples throughout the continental U.S. Send the Florida folks some tasty Ohio apples! Please order before December 15 for arrival before Christmas.
Don’t forget to order Holiday cookie trays, Kolachi, pies, pumpkin logs, or donuts for your holiday parties.
Holiday Hours
December 24 9a.m.-1p.m.
Closed December 25 and 26
December 31 9a.m.-3p.m.
Closed for Vacation January 1 through January 9 Reopen Saturday January 10
Winter Hours: Tuesday – Saturday 9a.m.-5p.m. Sunday Noon-5p.m. Closed Mondays until June
Our White House staff and the Hull family wish your family the best of the Holiday Season.
Merry Christmas to all and thanks for thinking of us in 2008.
It’s also time to order Thanksgiving Pies. Make your holiday dinner less stressful by letting us do your baking!
We have over 16 tempting varieties to choose from including Pumpkin, Mince, Apple, Apple Caramel Walnut, Dutch Apple, Fruits of the Forest, Cherry, Peach, Blueberry, Blackberry, Custard, Rhubarb, Lemon Crunch, Pecan and more. Can’t make up your mind? Get two. All pies are ten inch and serve six. We will take orders through Monday, November 24th, for pickup on Wednesday, November 26th by 5:00 p.m. Please call us at 330-533-4161 to place your order.
If you love fudge, remember that November is also the last hurrah for Pumpkin fudge. It’s a great addition to the holiday table.
Looking for fresh and healthy gift ideas?
We are shipping apple gift packs in the Continental US through the Christmas Season. Treat your family and friends to a gift of Fresh Ohio Apples, available in 12- or 24-count packs.
As you plan your holiday menu for Thanksgiving dinner, or for any time, visit our super store for these fresh treats:
It’s “Crunch Time” on our Farm. As we work to bring in the bountiful harvest of apples, we pause to appreciate nature’s perfect fruit. Apples are loaded with fiber, vitamins, and lot of “good for you” compounds. To most folks, though, the satisfying crunch of a juicy apple hits the spot.
Our market is overflowing with over a dozen varieties of sweet or tart apples in every color, shape, and size. Be adventuresome and try a new variety every trip. October means crispy apple treats, fresh Apple Cider made on our Farm, and those delicious donuts from our bakery.
Weekends thru October 25th and 26th (Saturdays 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sundays noon to 5 p.m.) be sure to visit the farm for Horse-Drawn Wagon Rides, Children’s Petting Zoo (Grown-ups like this one, too!), Cameron Caterpillar crawl tunnel, a children’s Play House, Sweet Caramel Apples, and our Pumpkin Pavilion.
It’s not too late to stop in for Pumpkins! Decorate with Corn Stalks, Straw, Indian corn, Gourds, and did I mention – plenty of Pumpkins! Be sure to take home a pumpkin or apple pie and share with the neighbors!
Great family activity: Try making your own caramel or candied apples. You can use any variety of apples depending on your taste for tart or sweet. We even have the caramel or candy kits to make it easy for you.
Don’t forget to check out our specialty food items, including Ohio cheeses and meats sliced to order, and a large variety of local vendor products.
See you at the farm!
September is one of our favorite months here at White House Fruit Farm. Summer and autumn crops collide for a scrumptious feast of flavors! The first two weeks of September feature late season peaches, tomatoes and peppers for canning, grapes, Bartlett pears, late-season sweet corn, beets, prune plums, and other vegetables.
As we creep into mid-month apples, apple cider, and winter squash take center stage. This is the month for our famous “Honeycrisp” apples. “Honeycrisp” mania starts about the 15th of September. What’s so special about “Honeycrisp?” It’s the apple with the watermelon-like texture and snappy sweet flesh.
Cool sunny autumn days and crisp nights make our 25 varieties of apples develop great flavor. We begin harvesting McIntosh, Cortland, Jonathon, and others mid-month. It’s also time to rediscover donuts to go along with apple cider. Nothing says “autumn” like cider and donuts! With so many varieties of donuts, it’s hard to pick just one flavor. Our bakers make sure that we have an ample assortment to choose from, and all are baked fresh daily.
Fall Harvest Festival
Our 24th Annual Craft Show and Fall Festival is Saturday, September 20th from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and on Sunday, September 21st from noon to 5 p.m. We feature an outdoor craft show, horse-drawn wagon rides, petting zoo, children’s activities, the pumpkin pavilion, a treat for young and old alike – make your own caramel apples, and of course, plenty of food. Inside, our farm-fresh market brims with our bountiful harvest. Although the craft show is only this one weekend in September, we offer wagon rides, petting zoo, and a selection of food every fall weekend through October 25th and 26th.
Apple Products featured in September
Along with our many varieties of apples, we also have available Apple Dips, Apple Crisp Mix, Cider Mulling Spices, Apple Caramel Wraps, Apple Butter, Apple Honey Butter, Apple Peelers and Corers, Apple Caramel Fudge, Apple Bread Mix, Apple Flips, Apple Dumplings, and of course, Apple Pies!
What better way to celebrate September than a trip to White House Fruit Farm! Teachers be sure to call us and book your field trips now because we fill up fast.
See you on the Farm!
Saturday, September 20th 9-5 and Sunday, September 21, 12-5p.m.
Bring the Family…..