Snitz Fest celebrates the apple and its part in everyday Lancaster County history. Apples constituted an important part of early Pennsylvania settlers’ diets. Watch cider being pressed and snitz being "cut and dried". Sample some 18^th century recipes using apples in the Küche of the 1719 Herr House. Take a wagon tour of the Museum’s orchard of historic apple varieties, and afterwards taste and compare the apples that came from these trees at the apple tasting table. See other harvest-time activities as well, such as threshing and corn shucking. Be sure to taste the sausages smoked over apple wood in the Museum’s 18^th century smoke house, and take home a snitz pie or a jar of fresh apple butter.