Processing Apples into Sauce, Butter, and Pectin

From start to finish, this is how I process a crate of apples.  Most  years I get 2 or 3 crates of apples from my mom’s trees, and this year I got some extras from a friend who didn’t have time to process a few boxes of “seconds” apples before they went bad. Empty the [...]

Harvest Season

Now that Fall is here, and it’s time to bring in the last of the garden, things are getting busy! We had the 2 cases of peaches that were canned, and the one that was frozen.     Beets from the garden Oven-dried figs, from Mom’s tree.  I didn’t get a picture, but I’ve dried [...]