After the girl's weekend, I had one day to unpack, and pack for a camping trip.  I took the boys and two girlfriends and their kids to Leavenworth for two nights.

On the way there, we decided to go on a little field trip and stopped in a little town called Cashmere.  They make 'Aplets and Cotlets' here.  We all went on a factory tour and had a bunch of samples.

'A', 'R', and 'W' waiting to go on the tour...

April and her hair net.  (Ah, the power of the camera...)

This is hot Cotlet mix that is poured from a vat and weighed into wooden trays for cooling and hardening.

Kim and 'W'

The cooled mixture is sprinkled with a food starch that keeps the powdered sugar from being absorbed into the candy.  After it is sprinkled with food starch it goes into a cutting machine where it is cut into bite size pieces and coated in powdered sugar.  (You can kind of see the cutting and sugar process in the mirror above the machine).