In The Kitchen With Apples...

It's Apple sauce time!
 I wanted to go pick apples this year, but doesn't look like we'll be making it down to the orchards again. So instead I watched for prices to go down on apples in the markets. We got a great deal on Washington grown apples at 49. cents a pound. I bought almost 20 pounds of apples for around $12.00. That's a deal!

We brought them home, washed them and prepared
 our list of things to do with the apples.
 I knew we would spend a whole morning and
afternoon cooking up and canning the apple sauce.

After washing the apples we had to wash
 and soak the canning jars too!

 

Now we are ready for business.
 I set up our work station in the kitchen.

 

Then I set up the water bath canner and started the boil, as Freckles cut and cored the apples. We used our apple peeler thingy ma~bob to do the work. It saves us time and works perfectly for the task at hand. And freckles will admit, it is fun!

 

She peeled, cut and cored over 60 apples!
I couldn't have done it without my little mini me.
(Grin)

She even found a pretty shape of an apple within the apple.
That sure is pretty!

 

We made 4 jars of pink cinnamon apple sauce and 4 jars of  regular golden apple sauce both with a hint of chunky goodness in each. It was well worth the 4 hours spent making them. I just may have to go back and get more apples for that price before it's too late...

The more apple sauce the merrier!

 

I am pretty proud of our little jars of goodies we made over the Summer and Fall thus far. We gave a lot of jam and apricots away over the Summer... yet, we are still left with some strawberry, plum, cherry, rose, and apricot jams as well as the canned apricots and now our yummy apple sauce!
Thank God for His bounty!