30 Pounds of Applesauce

[Ysarex]

53 pounds of apples = 30 pounds of applesauce = 13 quarts of apple butter.

Here's the applesauce. The first 15 pints of apple butter are in the pressure canner right now and I get a break till I have to reload it. My wife and I are going to be up to here ~~~~ in apple butter.




Joe

 

[Joeywhat]

Mmmm....apple butter.

Love that stuff.

 

[Tiller]

I just finished some breakfast-for-dinner biscuits with apple butter

Good stuff.

 

[Ysarex]

Yep, and I use lots and lots of cinnamon. First batch is out of the canner and the second batch is in now. After final boiling down I got 21 pints total from 53 pounds of apples. It took days but it's worth it -- set for the winter. Tomorrow I'll post a photo here of some of the finished pints.

Joe

 

[Ysarex]

Now I wish I'd taken a photo of the apples. 53 pounds of apples = 21 pints of apple butter. All canned and ready to store away. That should hold me till next harvest.

Joe

 

[sm4him]

Yum!! I love homemade apple butter! Peach butter, too.
Haven't made any myself in many years, probably a decade. But now, I'm sure wishing I had some!

 

[Derrel]

Nice work man!!!! More people ought to know the pride and accomplishment of making their own jams, jellies, preserves, and fruit concoctions!

 

[Ysarex]

Yum!! I love homemade apple butter! Peach butter, too.
Haven't made any myself in many years, probably a decade. But now, I'm sure wishing I had some!

Peaches are coming soon. When I moved to St. Louis back in the 70s the city population was close to 700,000. The population of the entire metro area has grown but in the central city the population is now 300,000. It had dropped even lower two decades ago (national white flight champs) but has rebounded some with recent foreign immigration. So the city has lots and lots of vacant lots which you can lease for $1.00 per year in what the city calls a garden lease. My wife and I started to grow a small orchard on a nearby lot. We have 18 trees now about to experience their 2nd winter. Nine are peach trees all grown from seeds. Here's a recent snapshot -- the tree front right is an apricot and then you see peach trees. Plums are further down the hill and there's the McDonald's drive-through window off in the distance. I'm figuring two more years to peaches!

Joe

 

[DarkShadow]

Yummy.

 

[Tight Knot]

Okay. You've got me stumped. And darned curious. What the heck is apple butter?

 

[tegeltka]

Same question here... in Estonia, we only make apple juice, just finished pressing my first batch ever a week ago.
In addition we also make apple wine and apple cider but... apple butter?

 

[Ysarex]

Okay. You've got me stumped. And darned curious. What the heck is apple butter?

Apple butter is spiced applesauce (cinnamon, allspice, cloves) laboriously boiled down (constant stirring) to a much thicker consistency than applesauce. The extended cooking time caramelizes the sugars and intensifies the sweetness -- think cinnamon apple candy. A thick layer of apple butter over hot buttered toast with coffee; it doesn't get any better.

Joe

 

[sm4him]

Yum!! I love homemade apple butter! Peach butter, too.
Haven't made any myself in many years, probably a decade. But now, I'm sure wishing I had some!

Peaches are coming soon. When I moved to St. Louis back in the 70s the city population was close to 700,000. The population of the entire metro area has grown but in the central city the population is now 300,000. It had dropped even lower two decades ago (national white flight champs) but has rebounded some with recent foreign immigration. So the city has lots and lots of vacant lots which you can lease for $1.00 per year in what the city calls a garden lease. My wife and I started to grow a small orchard on a nearby lot. We have 18 trees now about to experience their 2nd winter. Nine are peach trees all grown from seeds. Here's a recent snapshot -- the tree front right is an apricot and then you see peach trees. Plums are further down the hill and there's the McDonald's drive-through window off in the distance. I'm figuring two more years to peaches!

Joe

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What an absolutely brilliant use for empty space! Kudos to St. Louis for coming up with something actually useful like that. Here, our politicians would all just bicker about what to do with the land and nobody would EVER get to use it for anything. Except for the politicians, who would probably be growing...ah, well, never mind what some of them might grow on that land... :lmao:

 

[Geaux]

Lots of talk about the product of the photo and not the actual photo itself.

Take away how awesome Apple Butter is, and it's has a busy background with white balance issues.

 

[sm4him]

Okay. You've got me stumped. And darned curious. What the heck is apple butter?

Apple butter is spiced applesauce (cinnamon, allspice, cloves) laboriously boiled down (constant stirring) to a much thicker consistency than applesauce. The extended cooking time caramelizes the sugars and intensifies the sweetness -- think cinnamon apple candy. A thick layer of apple butter over hot buttered toast with coffee; it doesn't get any better.

Joe

^What he said, although it's not nearly as sticky sweet as it might sound like from that description. It's a spread that you can put on toast, sandwiches, etc. It's hard to describe, but it's delicious!
One of my favorite sandwiches is using apple butter (or peach butter) instead of jelly on my PB&J sandwiches.
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And now I want one.