Thursday, October 13, 2011
Canning Stuff
Whenever autumn comes around, I start thinking I should put stuff—food, mostly—in bottles. That's probably because that's what my mom always did (and still does) around this time of year. The problem is that I am not even close to being a domestic goddess, so my options are a bit limited. Luckily, my sister-in-law has a very tasty recipe for salsa that consists of chopping up vegetables and cooking them. Even I can't screw that up. And I'm just sayin', it's good stuff—and I have 23 pints of it. Time to stock up on the chips. Mmm.
Now, I'd made salsa before, so I was pretty sure it would work out, but I also needed to find a way to use the mega crop of apples my baby apple tree produced this year. Aha! Applesauce! I knew my mom had made that before, so I hauled my box of apples over to her house, and we started cutting them up. Before long, we had apples cooking in two huge pans on her stove and we were trying to figure out how to work the apple masher thingy. (See how conversant I am in canning lingo? I know, you're so impressed.) It turns out she hadn't used it for a while, so it took us and my nephews, who were visiting—and who were fascinated by the "old-fashioned" way of doing things—a few tries to get it going, but once we did, we cranked out that applesauce in no time. And my itsy-bitsy apple tree gave us five and a half quarts of very tasty applesauce. Good job, little tree.
Let the eating commence.
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Looks like you did an awesome job aren't Mothers wonderful they get smarter the older you get. Your little apple tree may not yield so much next year they seem to put out a bumper crop every other year.
I LOVE IT! Every year I think we will grow tomatoes. JUST tomatoes. But having a yard with no fence and a forest of trees right behind us is very inviting to the deer. We haven't figured it out yet and seem to always have a reason to travel right when we'd need to be attending to them. But because my family goes through tomatoes so much I think of your mom because that is what I recall most is all the tomatoes you'd have canned every year. :) Its fun to see you did the same. I made two batches of applesauce but don't have any canning equipment and a glass top stove, which I'm told shouldn't have a canning pan on it or it might crack. :(
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