We made apple pie filling last year using the recipe from
Pick Your Own. I think we got 7 to 10 quart jars. Even though we thought there was a fair amount of room for improvement with the results, we used them all. We learned a few things: the Pick Your Own recipe was really spicy. Also the apples get mushy when we used the spiral cut peeler-coring tool. The ring slicer works better.
This year, we went with the recipe from
All Recipes. We made some modifications: We substituted brown sugar and honey for portions of the sugar. We also cut back the overall sugar amount because we substituted 6 cups apple juice instead of part of the water called for.
It made 7 quarts of filling, just as the recipe called for, with a little bit of syrup left over. It also used 8-10 pounds of apples instead of the 6 it said. The house smells great. The bad news is that there are still apples left in the laundry basket...
I kept a basket of pick your own apples in the garage until march one year. I wrapped them in newspaper to insulate. But that was Allentown, PA and it isn't quite as cold as your neck of the woods. Might be worth a few apples to experiment??
ReplyDeleteI keep telling you - crock pot them, run them thru the Foley food mill, freeze. Yummy and easy.
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