We picked about a bushel of apples, and then Daddy went and bought about another bushel of apples already picked, as we didn't have time to pick more, due to the rain. Over the five days they were sitting on the counter, we'd used half a bag for versus things, but on Friday we decided it was time to get them taken care of.
On Friday we just peeled and sliced. We were going to cook the apples for apple butter in the crock pot, and the rest of the apples we dehydrated (dehydrated apples are the BEST!!!!!)
On Saturday we cooked up the apple butter, and cooked some apples on the stove to make apple sauce, and dehydrated some more apples (eighteen racks of dehydrated apples... Yummy.... :)).
Then we canned the apple sauce and some of the apple butter. We had never done this before, and it was so exciting to hear the jars "pop" as they sealed!!!!!!! We made a couple batches of pie filling and then we left about half a bag it the fridge for cooking/eating fresh.
And now we think we're going to go apple picking with Grandpa and Grandma tomorrow :)!!!!!!! Aunt Amber might go with us, but Aunt Tessa can't make it.... she will be home in time for supper, though, so we'll see her then :)! Andrew is still requesting that it rain tomorrow, haha :).
Dehydrated apples...
And our sealed canned goods...
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