Sunday, August 19, 2012

Food: Canning Apples

The apples are ready!


If I don't get busy, I think my tree will break.


I peeled and sliced about 16 pounds of apples before I had to stop and rest my peeling hand.


7 pints of sauce and 10 1/2 pints of butter.  It sure does seem like there should be more for all of that effort.  Of course the tree is still hanging very low.  I think I can be busy with apples until the first freeze that's coming in about 2 months.  ;-)

5 comments:

Spinster Beth said...

WOW. How do you like them apples?!

MarmePurl said...

Fantastic Work! I am craving apple butter, but we won't have much of a harvest this year. Boo.

Kathryn Ray said...

Apples are one of the few things that are growing very well for us this year.

They taste sooo good. :-)

Anonymous said...

Oooo - apple butter? What is this?? We make lemon butter over here in Aussie Land. Ive also had passionfruit butter but never heard of apple butter - recipie please! - Kara xx

Kathryn Ray said...

Can't say I've ever tasted passion fruit or lemon butter. Those sounds good.

The recipe I used is here: http://allrecipes.com/recipe/all-day-apple-butter/