Carl's oldest brother, Les, still lives on the old home place in Menan, Idaho where Carl was raised. There are still two transparent apple trees left in what used to be a whole orchard. They produce apples every other year, and this was the year. Here is the result of the one bushel of transparent apples Les and Gay picked for us... We started the process at 6:45 last night and were completed finished and cleaned up by 9:45. Guess you could say we are quite a team!
The weather was perfect for doing applesauce in the Victorio mill out on the deck (the deck will be finished eventually, we just know).
Don't let anyone ever tell you that steam canners aren't the way to can. I wouldn't do it any other way and have been using one for years!
There's nothing more rewarding than seeing full bottles of home canned goods on our food shelves. Yield of one bushel of apples was 26 pints.
5 comments:
yummm-ooo!!
Looks like you guys are getting ready for the winter.
How come all you guys don't move to Vancouver so we could have bigger family parties and partake of all that homemade goodness?!
Hey, I like the deck idea....you can just squirt the sticky mess off when you're finished. Someday I will have a deck!!
Great job on the sauce! I think I just caught the canning bug this year. You're right - it's so awesome to see the final product. I wonder why I didn't start earlier?
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