What are you canning now?

[CedarRidgeChicks]

IMO..which isn't worth much..I think that the sugar sometimes promotes souring/spoiling combined with the fact that it is usually still hot weather here when applesauce canning time starts..which probably indicates that working in smaller batches is best.

Don't know about pressure canning..my books call for water bath, but what would happen if you did pressure?

 

[TipsyDog]

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I would stick with a water bath for applesauce. Because applesauce is a thicker consistency, I would think that it will get pushed out of the can under pressure and you'd probably wind up with a big mess. I've been making it for years and never had a problem. IMO, can it with no additives and just be sure everything is as hot as possible. Good Luck to us all

 

[marymac]

I did pressure can 5 qts recently and yes it did push it out some and it also turned my applesauce a darker color, not that I think the color hurts anything, but I like my applesauce to be light. So from now on it's WB for me. Till you exhaust your cooker it's half over with anyway, I think it was only 10 min at 5 lb pressure or something close to that.

 

[#1California Chick]

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What does she DO with 400 QTS of applesauce??? She has to use 8 quarts a WEEK during a year!!!!!


BTW -- I don't add sugar or apple juice when I am making applesauce or applebutter. The apples usually are plenty sweet and juicy!! I figure that I get enough sugar in my life!!

I am also very careful to have EVERYTHING very hot and process over the minimum time. I have never had a problem.

Good Luck!!

Cindy

 

[CedarRidgeChicks]

Well, they are a family of 9 and they eat applesauce with almost every meal. When it is their turn to have church (in their home) they have to have a lot of sauce for the lunch meal and at the supper singing...I know it sounds like a lot but with all that use, she has run out before!!

 

[ozark hen]

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Dh and I live near Amish country and we thought perhaps it was because of the local gatherings, such as church, etc. They also visit one another every other Sunday when it isn't a church Sunday.

 

[Kim_NC]

We pulled the last of the pepper plants Friday. We sold several quart boxes and pint boxes at the farmers market yesterday.

Today I canned pepper rings and pepperoncini using Banana peppers and Anaheims. Then cleaned and froze a gallon bag each of Anaheims, Jalapenos and Hot Banana Peppers. I have a colander full of small bell peppers and sweet banana peppers yet to go. I'll freeze those tomorrow.

We also have 2 huge BBW turkeys to process tomorrow. I see turkey stock in our immediate future.

 

[KDbeads]

Made a big batch of pickled green tomatoes with all the tomatoes we pulled off before it froze a few nights ago. Also canned 5 quarts of salsa and 4 quarts of chunked tomatoes from the nice big batch of tomatoes I scored at the store in the reduced cart.

 

[#1California Chick]

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Ok I can see how they MIGHT need 400 Qts in a year. But if you get 7 qts in each water bath processing, you have to do it 57 times!!!! (so maybe 2 a day for a month!!!) I can't even imagine how many pounds of apples that would take OR peeling all those apples!!! Your neighbor gets my Canner of the Year award!!!

 

[CedarRidgeChicks]

Yes you are right..but this community gets together a lot to help each other out. It is amazing to watch the process. This family had 20 bushels of golden del. apples. Around 8-10 women with enormous bowls, apple peelers and victorio strainers set up outside the wash house. They all brought their canners and camp/alpaca stoves and got them all done in a day. It was amazing!! Then a few days later they all went to anothers house.

(#1California chick..if you were around the Amish Communities you would know, this is the way they do things and it isn't out of the ordinary..over Thanksgiving this community did butchering..cows and hogs..we attended one days just to watch the process. It was at the sister to my neighbor, they hung two steers and two hogs. This is a family with 13 children..she was hoping for 500 qts of meat to be canned.)