October 11, 2011

• Applesauce

  Today we made applesauce - at least we got a good start on it.  Here are our 6 quarts and 4 pints.  We used about 2/3 of a bushel.

                                            

  Amanda and I have been canning applesauce for about 15 years, and we keep getting more efficient.  Amanda suggested that, instead of doing as much as we can in one day, especially with her three kiddos running around and the need to take them home for naps after lunch, we cook up the applesauce one day and can it the next.  That's what we had planned, but those plans changed when we heard that the tile man is going to put in my backsplash tile tomorrow.  We always need to be flexible!

  So, we decided to cook what we could until Amanda had to leave to take the kids home.  That worked out great!  Pots on 3 burners, and we kept peeling, coring, and cutting apples and letting them cook, then we mixed them with the hand mixer, added sugar to taste, and set the pots aside.  We stopped when we knew we wouldn't have time for more, and they will be waiting for us another day

  Then after they left, I got the canner out and started canning, cleaning up everything while the batches were processing.  And so, here I am, finished for the day!  It took me two batches of jars, although I could have put more jars in the second batch, but didn't have enough applesauce cooked.

  Won't those jars ( the ones I keep - Amanda takes what she wants to have on hand) look lovely on my canning shelf?  I'll get a picture of that after they sit for 24 hours.

  This past Saturday, I made these 2 pillowcases for Megan, to match her quilt! 

                                       
       

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