Canning

What a day!!!

I got up around 6:45 this morning, and was out of the house by 7:45am. Headed to the church for a day of learning how to can apples for apple pie filling.

Last year, as some of you may recall, the Women's Ministry at our church had a fund-raiser in which we took orders for 4 different kinds of pies (apple, cherry, pecan and pumpkin), then made the pie crust and the pies - homemade - from scratch!!! We ended up making over 100 pies in two days.

At that time, some of the ladies had said it would be fun to do this again next year and learn how to can apples. Well, that's what we did today!!

We used two pressure cookers, 3 bushel of apples, 39 quart jars with lids, 15 pint jars with lids, 17 quart size freezer bags, 12 lbs. of sugar, 1 1/2 lbs. cornstarch, cinnamon, nutmeg, salt, water, and lemon juice.

The result?!?!? 54 1/2 quarts of apple pie filling, and 85 cups of fresh apples (pre-cut) that we put into the freezer for use when we make apple pies again this year, for our annual pie making in November!!!

It was a great day of learning, as well as one full of fellowship!!!