Muchos Apples

So the past few weeks have been applesauce and apple pie filling making! My children have been very helpful.We have done three bushels of apples. We got some red stamen apples originally and then I got golden delicious, they are so yummy. We put a bunch in the refrigerator for the kids to eat when they are hungry.

Ready to be cut up

Quartered for boiling

 Boiling the apples to soften them

 Becoming Applesauce!

Finished Products

Making apple pie filling, peeling and slicing.

Apple peel

Ready to be cut and put in jars

Yummy apple pie filling

What we did with Apples

My sister came over a couple weeks ago for us to make applesauce and apple pie filling. We had bunches of fun being able to talk and get caught up on things. Gideon and Tirzah also helped us by taking bites out of lots of apples or Gideon putting McQueen and Mater into the apple strainer--quite surprised one of them didn't wind up in one of our applesauce jars. We made a bunch that day and I finished the rest of the apples a few days later. In all we had 31 jars of applesauce and 13 jars of apple pie filling out of 4 bushels!!!

We had 4 bushels of apples

Tirzah loved eating the apples

Bethie chopping the apples to be boiled

Apples softening

Gideon being a big help processing the apples into sauce

Transfering his applesauce into his cars bowl

Applesauce!!!

Apple pie filling