Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Canning Applesauce

Last weekend, my good friend, Dawn and I spent all day (and I mean all day) canning applesauce. It was a ton of work, but well worth the sweat and aching feet that we put into it (no we did not put our feet in the applesauce ;) I was able to purchase 2 bushel of apples for $20 from a local amish family. Unbelievable apples too! They were perfect and huge. I wish I had taken a picture of them before we started, but I was thinking of only one thing and that was canning. Next year :)
Here the hot water bath is going on the left and the apples are cooking down on the right.

1/2 bushel of apples cut up, cooked and ready to push through our food mills.

Dawn using her grandmothers food mill. I think it worked better than the modern day mill at times and at others, my food mill was the one to do the job :)

Our first batch of canned applesauce. We added cinnamon into the first batch and several others, but this was our very first! Isn't it beautiful ;)
34 quarts of applesauce later and we were ready to call it a day!! But I absolutely love the end product. We didn't add any sugar and for those of us that love a tart applesauce, this is the best!!

And to end the day Ken and Cody headed over to our house, picking up a pizza on the way, for a bon fire. What a beautiful night. We joined them as soon as the sauce was completed. The boys had a blast playing flashlight tag...or simply running around with the flashlights. We made s'mores and ended the night with a display of fireworks from the local firehouse. We could just barely see them over the tree line, but it was a perfect end to a tough day :) I don't know how people do this all the time and with kids under foot!! To those of you who do, you are truly amazing women!!!!!

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

yeah! its much better,

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Grace Acres said...

I am glad you liked your applesauce. I noticed that in the top picture in the background you have a tin just like I do.

Anonymous said...

I love that you are canning! Only good things come from getting back to nature with friends, family, kids.
Mom

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