Today while Lilly was helping me make applesauce and dinner she ask me a question.
She said, " Mom, when you were a little girl did they still use stage coaches? "
Nicely I replied " No, they did not."
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In case you have not tried it, canning applesauce is a dangerous thing. In my canning book the directions say to bring the sauce to a boil and keep it there while you place it in hot jars. The temperature they have written is 212 degrees.
I don't know if they tested out their recipe before they printed it. I got mine near the 200 degree mark and couldn't handle it any longer. I will now be nursing a few burns on my arms and hands from they lava hot boiling applesauce that splattered on me during this heating process (Luckily they are small).
Maybe I needed mad scientist gear to keep myself safe next time?
If you ever try it, be careful. It is really yummy and I think worth it though.
One other tip is to start early in the day and don't try fixing Navajo tacos for dinner while you are in the middle of bottling it. If you work anything like me, dinner will be very late and thus your kids will be up later than you would have liked and you will still have hours of work to do after you put them to bed, when you really just want to go to bed your self.
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I am hoping these come across as some what funny and amusing but it is so late right now and I am tired that I am finding most of what I say funny. Hope it really is.
She said, " Mom, when you were a little girl did they still use stage coaches? "
Nicely I replied " No, they did not."
____________________________________________________________________________
In case you have not tried it, canning applesauce is a dangerous thing. In my canning book the directions say to bring the sauce to a boil and keep it there while you place it in hot jars. The temperature they have written is 212 degrees.
I don't know if they tested out their recipe before they printed it. I got mine near the 200 degree mark and couldn't handle it any longer. I will now be nursing a few burns on my arms and hands from they lava hot boiling applesauce that splattered on me during this heating process (Luckily they are small).
Maybe I needed mad scientist gear to keep myself safe next time?
If you ever try it, be careful. It is really yummy and I think worth it though.
One other tip is to start early in the day and don't try fixing Navajo tacos for dinner while you are in the middle of bottling it. If you work anything like me, dinner will be very late and thus your kids will be up later than you would have liked and you will still have hours of work to do after you put them to bed, when you really just want to go to bed your self.
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I am hoping these come across as some what funny and amusing but it is so late right now and I am tired that I am finding most of what I say funny. Hope it really is.
Comments
I love homemade applesauce on toasted homemade whole wheat bread.