Another item checked off my summer to-do list...can applesauce!
Michaela and I added into the applesauce equation this year the task of picking our own apples. On Wednesday we made the 2 hour trek up to Santa Rosa, hand picked several pounds of Sonoma County elite Gravenstein apples and trekked on home. On Thursday and Friday we readied the needed supplies. On Saturday we canned applesauce from 10:00AM to 5:00PM. On Sunday we cleaned up. A success story from start to finish!
Farmers for a day!
Our crop
Sneaky
2 pots cooking apples, 1 pot to seal the jars, 1 pot to sterilize lids. 2 kitchen aides humming, countless bowls filled and refilled with cut apples, several minor burns, 1 major and 1 minor cut finger. All in a days work!
Can't beat a fresh apple for snack time.
This year we had hoped to get 12 jars for me, 12 for Michaela and 4 or 5 for Michaela's mom for a total of 28 to 29 jars of applesauce. Well, our harvest was plentiful and we ended up canning 59 jars!
We even got an apple crisp out of the deal.
Paul loves when I make him take food pictures!
It was great to spend the day hard at work, it was great to spend that evening relaxing and enjoying some of our yield with friends, it will be great to be able to cook with, eat, and share the great applesauce harvest of 2011!
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