Solar Cooking

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Our local community school has a solar cooker which we used this year with Andrea McKay's grade 4 class to make apple sauce with local apples. Kids cored and chopped apples, we added some honey and cinnamon, and, despite the late October sun, the heat was sufficient to cook the apples to the consistency of apple pie, which was even better than apple sauce. Just as the recipe said, it was delicious. Kids asked for seconds and thirds.

In our climate, solar cooking is hardly possible in the cooler season, but it can work from spring to fall, provided you have the patience to find a sunny spot and wait for the sun to do its job.