This is what my kitchen floor looked like after 2 days of canning apples.
My parents and sister Chelsea came over for a weekend and we worked our butts off! Friday we started with apple pie filling. I love the way fruit looks in the jar!
Thank goodness for the peeler, corer, slicer, my investment this canning season. Definitely would not do pie filling without it! And the kids love to eat the peel when it comes off in one long piece.
Turning the crank is lots of fun and everyone wanted to get into the game!
Don't know who took this picture, but it turned out well.
Friday evening was cider time, love having friends with a neat old press. There is nothing better than fresh pressed cider.
Saturday morning was time to start saucing. Early on enthusiasm was high and all the kids wanted to help. Their enthusiasm wore as the day went on, but they were good helpers to the end.
This was obviously later in the day when the fresh dirt outside beckoned and all the kids answered. Smash those apples Chels!
Mom had the cooking station, we had 3 pots of apples going and 2 grinders as well.
Julie had the cutting station in between taking care of baby. Don't mess with the woman wielding the knife.
And this is what we have to show for it.....140 quarts of applesauce, 51 quarts of apple pie filling and 22 gallons of cider,(the cider is in the freezer and not pictured)
I don't know if my family will come back to visit, we just work when they come...good thing we have fun working and the kids love playing with their cousins.
Bad picture I know...but we also celebrated my Dad's birthday....I'm pretty sure we burned off the calories in that cake during the day.
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