Apple Pie Filling…

Today I bottled 10 quarts of apple pie filling. I’d never done it before, but it turned out pretty well. I never could have done it without my trusty apple corer slicer thingy. If you don’t have one, you need one! I peeled 34 apples in no time flat. Dang, I should have timed it. Oh well.

I used a recipe I found on Allrecipes.com. I did add some additional spices… more cinnamon, more nutmeg, cloves, allspice and just a little ginger and I omitted the yellow food coloring. I didn’t see the point in it. It took me a couple of bottles to get the hang of how to fill them without making a huge mess. I found layering the sauce and apples the easiest approach.