Our first shot at canning/preserving was a success. We spent 20+ hours in the kitchen across Saturday/Sunday/Monday making apple goodies. We had plenty of help from Harvey and his dog-friend Mr. D (who we were dog-sitting) throughout the process.
When all was said and done we made apple butter, apple marmalade, apple curry chutney, dehydrated apple slices, and apple/pumpkin muffins. Sadly we have not even gone through 1/2 of the apples we picked, so the Hansen household is apple crazy right now. The process of each was our own little adventure. Some were more time consuming than others, we quickly learned that we despise all recipes that state "stir constantly." Thankfully Trish let us borrow the Apple Master which is a brilliant little machine!!
The Apple Master's work
The chutney brewing.
Prepping the jars
Carefully filling the jars
The apple butter coming out
What a fun time we had! We look forward to continuing to learn more about canning/preserving and try more and more recipes. Our first adventure was a definite success.
Mmmmmmmm....
Our goods, minus 5-10 jars of which we've already given away.
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