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My wife asked if I wanted to help can the apples from our tree this year. So we picked four big grocery bag fulls off the tree today. We then preceded to make 6 quarts of apple sauce, a bunch of small jars of apple butter, 7 quarts of apple pie filling and 3 jars of strawberry preserves. Exhausting work, that took all day. No truck work today, but I'm off on Thursday and Friday, so there is still some time this week for that too.
Wondering if anyone else did something like this today?
Should be a good winter with all the stuff we canned this summer!

Cant say i did that much work today. Had the boys 5th b-day, so it was all family all day, he got some good loot though.

With all the economic news lately, I thought this thread was about altering the books and firing people.

Steve,
I haven't ever done anything like that. But what a nice thing to do, helping your wife, that has to be a lot of work.
Ken

When I was growing up in Minnesota my Grandpa who was from Norway stayed with us during the summers,we had apple trees and also canned them,he also made apple juice and we bottled it and capped it like we did homemade root beer.We had a basement and a big shelf with all the canned goods there,he put the juice on one end and told me his juice was on the other end and told me to leave it alone.When he went back to California I ran out of juice so I thought I'll have one of his, BIG MISTAKE! 1/2 hour later my legs would not get me up the stairs and had to call Mom for help,Iwas &blitzed.

No apples, but I made 24 jars of chokecherry jelly, does that count? Most of my canning comes in hunting season, lots of canned deer, antelope, elk, like that.

Originally Posted by stovens

My wife asked if I wanted to help can the apples from our tree this year. So we picked four big grocery bag fulls off the tree today. We then preceded to make 6 quarts of apple sauce, a bunch of small jars of apple butter, 7 quarts of apple pie filling and 3 jars of strawberry preserves.

You have to tell us the your trick to get strawberry preserves from those apples

to pasturize (sp)
heat the liquid to 180*F for 10 minutes- do not boil
I built my cider press using a 1hp electric motor and an 4X12 inch apple wood cylinder with a lot of stainless steel screws in it for the shredder.spinning at 1750rpm
The mash falls into a stainless steel hopper (appox 35 gallon size) with lots of 1/8" holes drilled in the lower half
and a 4 inch thick apple wood pressure board on top
and a jackall High lift jack to press the mash
steel frame and a VW Karmann Ghia front suspension / wheels to make it moveable
usually get 8 to 12 gallons of juice every 15 minutes
we call it the Immaculate Contraption
hank

My gramma used to can deer meat.

No apples, but I made 24 jars of chokecherry jelly

My Dad used to make chokecherry bounce (homemade brandy?) and grape jelly from a concord grapes he grew. Fond memories of that stuff brewing on the stove.

apples apples apples, do I ever know what your talking about. Our acreage has 50 apple trees on it ( not planted by me ) so we also have apple sauce all year long.
People come from all over to pick apples. This year we put a sign up for free will donations and we've gotten $300 so far, I would never have guessed we would get that much.

I am old enough to remember my mom canned peaches and pears and and chunky apple sauce with cinnamon but the best thing she made was guava jam I still remember the taste have mever found guava jam that compares btw you know you can still buy parafin wax at the market I was a snap on dealer for years I would take tool boxes in trade one of the tricks of the trade you take the drawers out rub wax on the slides makes a tool box work like new that and pledge furn polish I could make more money on a used box than I did selling the new one parafin wax works an alot of things if you still have wood windows that slide up an down in the house makes slide up and down with one finger most of you guys probley all ready know all this already so as gilda always said never mind .......ted

actually Ted my winows are sticking, so I'll give that a try!

We bought some Parafin wax to melt in mineral oil to coat our butcher block, and wax the drawers in the other house.

Carefull how much you put on your window, we waxed one before we moved, and it would never stay up after that! we had to prop it open.

I like your fawns in your pic, They are fun to watch play.
I'm told the ones in our pic's are only about 1 year old at the most, we moved at the end of May and the bucks antlers were half the size they are now, and he just lost the velvet off them, and now he lets us touch his antlers.

Today we mowed down to the fence along the pond, the grass was over the hood on our Craftsman rider. We found a faucet sticking up out of the ground along the side of the yard, about a 100 feet from the pond, along the top of the fence has black plastic thin wall tubing wired to it, and along the ground, in about 8 pieces, 1 1/4", 1", 3/4" for a total about a couple hundred feet of it! It's on the pond side of the fence hooked to nothing. The faucet maybe hooked to the well, and maybe the tubing is to fill up the pond! I couldn't turn the faucet so I'll check it tomorrow.
Done for today.

I have never heard of guava jam Whats it made from?

Ever have curly pancakes?

Pat

hi pat its made from guava fruit from a guava tree we had 2 of them in our back yard when I was growing up its a small dark green fruit about the size of a small lemon you can buy guava jam at the market and its good but not any as good a mom made still miss he after all these years -----ted