Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Applesauce!
This past Monday I took the kids on a very, very spur of the moment adventure - apple picking! I know what you are thinking: apples aren't until fall. Oh, so incorrect! There are actually two varieties available for picking now (at least in our area) - the Golden Delicious and the Braeburn. Last year I made applesauce from only Gravenstein apples, and the taste was, well...store-bought to say the least. I was excited that I would be able to match some sauce from two varieties this time. The taste is much better this time around!
The kids had so much fun picking the beautiful fruit. There were many apples low to the ground so they had no problem picking. We ended up picking almost 70 pounds!
William was my helper for the afternoon. He washed almost all of the apples for me and kept my colander full!
I have a picture of the final product, but go figure. It's on my phone. Just imagine a counter full of applesauce jars!
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3 comments:
WOW, HOW FUN!! AND...."YUM, YUM, YUM".....WHAT A BUSY MOMMA YOU ARE!!
Yummo! Send some back to TN =)
Looks like the kids had a blast.
Mmmmmm....yum! How in the world did you cart back that many pounds of apples? Do you have a canning set or did you do it all in a pot? How hard is it to can?
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