No, that wasn't a typo and no, I don't mean the dance. I mean canning food and now I can do it!
Ever since we planned on going to Green Bluff, I knew that I wanted to pick our own apples, make homemade crockpot applesauce and then can it. Sometimes my lofty homemaker plans come true, and this one did.
I had two different recipes pinned and kinda combined/spun off of both of them. Here are the two blogs I referred to:
SkinnyTaste and
Women Living Well. For my recipe, we used 5 varieties of apples: Jonathan, Jonagold, Gala, Honeycrisp, and MacIntosh. We used 2 crockpots, 26 apples, 3tsp of lemon juice for each crockpot, about 1/2 cup water in each, and I didn't measure how much cinnamon I sprinkled in each one. I did not use any sugar (hubby is anti-sweets haha). The applesauce is kind of tart so adding brown sugar might help with that but we both really like the tart flavor. I put the crockpots on high and it was done in 3 hours. I used an immersion blender to get the chunks out and then we canned 6 pints of our applesauce and had a bit leftover to eat now.
Here are the pictures of our applesauce adventure!
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| Attaching the apple peeler/corer/slicer to the counter. |
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| Oh yah, tools in the kitchen! Hubby loved doing this! |
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| Apple slinky |
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| Apples |
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| Peeling away |
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| Adding lemon juice |
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| Love having his help in the kitchen |
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| Apples and cinnamon all ready to become applesauce |
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| Adding a bit of water |
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| Blending out the chunks |
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| Nom nom nom |
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| How many jars will we get? |
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| 6! |
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| Applesauce takes a bath |
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| Woo hoo! |
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| We did it! We made our own applesauce and canned it! |
I am linked up at the following blogs:
No stopping you now! Nice that both of you shared this project. <3
ReplyDeleteThat looks easy enough! I think I can can too! lol I like that you didn't have to use the pressure canner.. that things sends me into an anxiety attack!!
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