Homesteading

Farming, canning, chickens, preserving - little house style

Monday, September 8, 2014

Apples

Made 7 quarts of apple pie filling from the pickyourown website -  followed the recipie and hopefully turned out. Left 1 inch headspace but still came out of jars



Made double batch of apple onion maple relish. 6 1/2 pints and 5 pint jars

Prepped for double batch of hot dog relish and bread and butters for tomorrow

Sunday, September 7, 2014

Pizza sauce

Tomatoes from the garden and from the freezer. Made a pizza sauce and canned it. 9 1/2 pints done

Thursday, September 4, 2014

Apple butter

Here are some websites that helped our recipie

Sandpaper and silly putty

Pick your own

We decided to make sauce one day then apple butter the next 2 days

No peeling, just coring. Then the course sieve.

One recipie with apple pie spices and one with ginger