Applesauce

Can it really be two weeks since I last posted. I'm finding that hard to believe but when I think back onto all the different things that we've been doing I can believe it. In the last two weeks we've had company over, been company several times, cleared, scrubbed and sealed the deck, front porch and carport, attended a weekend history conference, went to the State Fair twice, had company spend the night, attended the church picnic and in between all of that I did some baking and cooking. Gosh when I look at all that, I realize why I didn't have time to post!

One of the fun baking projects I did in the last two weeks was make applesauce. We have several apple trees and my husband and brother-in law (DN) picked a good amount and I spent the afternoon making applesauce. (A special thanks to B. Shubin for sharing her yummy recipe with my family!) Here's some pictures of the process!

The recipe calls for the skin to be removed but since the apples are so small I decided to leave the skins on!

Here it is cooking and getting mashed up!

Once all the apples were cooked and mashed, I placed them on rack (actually its my cookie cooling rack:) and moved the mixture around so that the apple skins would stay on top and only the sauce would go through. I had a lot of skins left over and I didn't have the heart to just throw them away so I saved them and my DH and I have been eating them. They are very yummy!!

I then bagged all the applesauce into quart size bags and put them into the freezer to save for this winter. In all I made 1 gallon and 1 quart of applesauce!!! There still are a lot more apples to make applesauce out of so I have a feeling I"ll be working on this project for a while!!!