Making Apples Sauce

Making Apples Sauce -- For Rebekah

Buy or find access to a Food Strainer

(here is a link to one on Amazon)

http://www.amazon.com/Victorio-VKP250-Strainer-Sauce-Maker/dp/B001I7FP54/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1410961698&sr=8-1&keywords=food+strainer

This is SOOOOOOO worth it.  I’ve never made apple sauce without it.  If you don’t have one then you will have to Core and Peel all of the apples yourself. YIKES!!!

 

Step 1:  Go Pick Apples from your local Apples Orchard

Step 2:
Wash them and quarter them.  When you quarter them take the stem out.  Don't use apples with worms.  Make sure you discard those ones or at least the part of the apple the worm was in.

 

Step 3:  Then boil them in a BIG pot.  I have actually borrowed my friend's hot water bath and used it to boil the apples so I could get a lot of apples boiled at once.  If your friends don't have one for you to borrow then just grab your BIGGEST pot and boil the apples for about 10 minutes.  You want the apples soft but not falling apart.

 

 

 



 

 

 

Step 4:  After they are soft put them in your food strainer and get all of the pulp you possible can.  My kids love doing this part.  They love to watch the apples' "poop" or "guts" come out one end and the yummy pulp coming out the other.  My husband will take the apple "guts" and put it through again to get all the apple pulp he possible can.  You would be surprised at how much pulp we still get from the apples guts.

 



 

 I don't know why I didn't take any pictures beyond this point but I don't have them.  When I make the apple sauce this year I will up date :) 

 

 

Step 6:  Return apple pulp to saucepot.  Add sugar to taste.  Bring applesauce to a boil, stirring to prevent sticking.  Maintain temperature at a boil while you fill the jars.  Ladle hot sauce into hot jars, leaving 1/2 inch headspace.  Remove air bubbles.  Adjust two-piece caps.  Process pint size and quart size jars for 20 minutes  in a boiling-water canner.

 

 

There You have it.  You very own apple sauce.  Trust me, you will never like store bought apple sauce again.

 

 

Huckelberry Picking

Gardening

Tomatoes and Peppers . . . looks like I'm going to be making salsa.

First Day of School

Peas

Peas . . . one of my favorite plants to grow in the garden.  I planted a huge crop at the end of May and hardly any of them came up.  We plants close to 700 seeds and maybe 10 grew.  Because we waited so long for them to come up I finally replanted some more seeds at the end of June and finally this week they are ready.  We keep picking and picking but because everyone loves them so much they are gone with in minutes.  Ashlynn is my little gardener in training.  She loves to the work in the garden with me, especially harvesting food.

Softball 2014

Kaylie had so much fun playing softball this summer.  Their team, Pee Wee Power, was pretty good.  This year Kaylie mostly played on third base.  At the beginning of the season Kaylie said she didn't care to play pitcher because all the other girls wanted to BUT half way through the season she got the itch more and more to pitch.  She wanted her dad to practice with her every night and when he couldn't work with her, she asked me.  She finally had her chance but after the first two pitches the other coach complained that she was taking an extra step so she was taken out.  She still practiced every single day and at the start of the last game of the championships her coach put her in.  Kaylie pitched the WHOLE entire game and almost every pitch was perfect.  It was amazing.  All the parents were raving about how well she was doing.  They lost in double over time by one run.  Kaylie was sooooo disappointed.  She really loves softball.  I loved how the girls had so many cheers they would sing through out the whole game.  So fun.

Meet RUBY

Meet RUBY the newest member to our Family.

Ruby is our cute orange baby kitten that we adopted from our neighbor. 

My kids have fallen in love . . . especially Cameron.  He loves to

grab Ruby, carry here around like a rag doll, chase her, and

then cuddle with her in front of the TV.  Ruby is so

patient and lets him do this most of the time.

It's amazing how a little ball of fur

can change people.