It was another day full of apples and today will be too. My daughters took turns with the apple peeler/corer. When the apples are crisp it works like a charm, 30 seconds from whole apple to sliced up perfectly. But every day the apples sit in the garage, even though it's cool, they get softer. Then we have to do them by hand.
These applesauce days are developing a pattern. Wash, peel/core, and throw into the pot. We keep going until the pot's full. It makes some muscle to stir it.
Some of the apples are going into the freezer. After dipping them in water with lemon juice and salt, we lay the apples out on cookie sheets. By morning they are frozen solid; we break the pieces up and move them into bags.
Some of the apples are going into apple butter. We put over two gallons of applesauce in the crock pot, added spices, and then let it simmer all day. It sure is an easy way to cook it down.
At the end of the day, we started in on some eating. Applesauce and cottage cheese are one of our favorites, especially when it's Christina cottage cheese. Last summer we made several batches of cottage cheese and stored them in the freezer. Today the first came out to thaw. Oh yeah, it's worth it.
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