Kitchen

[wvumountiefan]

Aren't these beautiful! We are gonna get 8 or 9 quarts from a 5 gallon bucket. These are Early Harvest. The canning season has began a little early. 🙂

[Marp]

@wvumountiefan,  please understand that it has been eons since I have been exposed to home canning so my question could very well be based on faulty memory.

I seem to remember that when canning jars should be filled as much as possible so there is no room for air.  Am I mistaken, mis-remembering or just way off base?

[Carmie]

When canning, you should always leave 1/2" headspace between the food and the top of the lid.

If you don't have enough product to fill up the jar, just store     It in the freezer or fridge if you will eat within a few days.

I love to can applesauce.  I like to mix it with grape purée and make grape applesauce too.  Yummy.

[Wildhorses14]

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@Carmie wrote:

When canning, you should always leave 1/2" headspace between the food and the top of the lid.

If you don't have enough product to fill up the jar, just store     It in the freezer or fridge if you will eat within a few days.

I love to can applesauce.  I like to mix it with grape purée and make grape applesauce too.  Yummy.

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Do you or @wvumountiefan have an easy recipe you can share? I'm learning to can and would like to try applesauce. Grape sounds good too!

[Shihtzursqmom]

I haven’t saw canned applesauce in years since my grandma canned it , that looks delicious

[PA Mom-mom]

@wvumountiefan  That looks great! Is Early Harvest the same as Yellow Transparent? That was always a great canning and baking apple. I do up a few quarts each year for Thanksgiving and Christmas, but I freeze it in wonton soup containers or locknlock. Usually I do Empire in the fall, because it's hard to find the yellow transparent in quantity when it's available. 

[Carmie]

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@Wildhorses14 wrote:

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@Carmie wrote:

When canning, you should always leave 1/2" headspace between the food and the top of the lid.

If you don't have enough product to fill up the jar, just store     It in the freezer or fridge if you will eat within a few days.

I love to can applesauce.  I like to mix it with grape purée and make grape applesauce too.  Yummy.

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Do you or @wvumountiefan have an easy recipe you can share? I'm learning to can and would like to try applesauce. Grape sounds good too!

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I have never used a recipe for applesauce.  I just core apples, and remove the skin, unless I want pink applesauce and cook the apples in a sauce pan with some water, just enough to keep the apples from sticking. When the apples are soft, remove from the heat and decide how you like it...chunky or smooth.

If smooth or if your left the skin on, run it through a seive,  blender or  food processor.  If you want chunky, just use a potato masher.

You can add sugar or cinnamon or both or any other spice you like while the apples cook. You can eat it warm or cold.  You can can it or freeze it In zip lock bags.

You can use the water bath method of canning, there is no need to fan using a pressure method. 

I often make grape jam and save some of the grape purée and add it to the applesauce. My children always loved that flavor when they were little.  

[phoenixbrd]

This looks delicious!  Do you have your own apple orchard....lucky you!

[wvumountiefan]

@phoenixbrd  These apples came from a neighbor's tree. We did plant 4 apple trees, last year, up on the hill behind our house. 

[JeanLouiseFinch]

I did a bit of canning and a little freezing when our kids were small. One of my favorite things to can was apple pie filling.  I'd make extra for teacher gifts at Christmas - something useable that wasn't another teacher mug to add to the collection.  The year I did freezer corn was a huge letdown. Freezer corn is a lot of work for a couple of days.  But if you like corn, the payoff is worth it. No commercially frozen or canned corn tastes like home frozen. Back then, we ate corn. Anyway, I did all the work, bagged everything in portioned amounts, put them in the freezer, thought I was set for the year.  At some point there was a problem and the power to the freezer was interupted.  We had eaten a few bags by then, but the lion's share of my corn was lost. I never did it again after that. I have made some keto freezer strawberry preserves, but since finding a KF brand at Meijer and Walmart (it's called Good Good), I usually just buy it. 🤷‍♀️