- Everything you need to get started with waterbath canning (fruits,pickles, jams, jellies, salsa, sauces and tomatoes)
- 21-1/2 qt. enamel water bath canner
- Funnel, jar lifter, lid lifter, bubble freer spatula
- Ball Blue Book
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Prepared this way, the jars have a shelf life of 18 months to 2 years, and require no special attention.
Now here's how you can, too!
The most important step! You need apples that are sweet - NOT something like Granny Smith's. Yeah, I know you like them to eat fresh, but you'd have to add a lot of sugar.
Instead, choose apples that are naturally sweet, like Gala, Fuji, Rome and always use a mixture - never just one type. This year I used 4 bushels of red delicious and one each of Fuji, Gala and Rome. This meant it was so sweet I did not need to add any sugar at all. And the flavor is great! The Fuji's and Gala's give it an aromatic flavor! Honeycrisp and Pink Lady are also excellent, sweet, flavorful apples. you may want to use firmer apples - Golden and Red delicious tend to be very soft
You can pick your own, or buy them at the grocery store. You can also get them in large quantities for prices (in 2005) in the $14 to $20 range at the real farmer's markets, like the Atlanta-Forest park Georgia State Farmer's Market and orchards in the southeast of the U.S. You'll get about 14 to 18 quarts of apple pie filling per bushel of apples, depending upon bruises and size..
Now's a good time to get the jars ready, so you won't be rushed later. The dishwasher is fine for the jars; especially if it has a "sanitize" cycle, the water bath processing will sanitize them as well as the contents! If you don't have a dishwasher with a sanitize cycle, you can wash the containers in hot, soapy water and rinse, then sanitize the jars by boiling them 10 minutes, and keep the jars in hot water until they are used. Leave the jars in the dishwasher on "heated dry" until you are ready to use them. Keeping them hot will prevent the jars from breaking when you fill them with the hot apple pie filling.
Put the lids into a pan of hot, but not quite boiling water (that's what the manufacturer's recommend) for 5 minutes, and use the magnetic "lid lifter wand" to pull them out.
I'm sure you can figure out how to wash the apples in plain
cold water.Step 6 - Core and Slice
You can use a knife, but the $5 corer/slicer you see in the photo is the easiest way to do it. The apple corer/slicer, available at almost any large grocery store, kitchen store, Bed Bath and Beyond, mall kitchen stores, Target and other local "big box" stores
With this or an ordinary knife, any slices that are between �-inch and
1/2 inch thick will do.
Then
you can discard the core which has the seeds, stem and hard parts.
Here are the apple slices, ready for the pie filling!
These corer/slicers are fantastic. Think about it; it makes six slices in the time you can cut one with a knife AND it cores. The one sold here through Amazon.com is better than any I've seen in the stores because it has tall handles (so you won't knock your knuckles) and is washable in the dishwasher. Click on the link below for more info or to order one.
It's pretty simple: place 6 cups of sliced apples at a time in a large pot with 1 gallon of
Boil each batch for 5 minutes after the water returns to a boil. You're not really "cooking" the apples - just blanching and heating them. Blanching means heating the at high temperature for a brief time to stop the enzymes that can cause the flavor to degrade during storage. Raw packs (unblanched apples) make poor quality products.
Stir occasionally to prevent burning.
Drain
and keep the hot, cooked fruit in a covered bowl or pot.
Save
the liquid to use in step 10 to fill the void spaces in the jars!
Pretty self explanatory. Fill jars with hot slices, leaving 1/2-inch headspace.
A jar funnel helps. Gently jostle the jar and lightly press the slices to help them settle in the jar and reduce the amount of air space.
Fill them to within 1/2 inch of the top with hot syrup (see steps 7 and 8) or water. Wipe any spills
off of
the top, seat the lid and tighten the ring around them.
Put them in the canner and keep them cover with at least 1 or 2 inches of water and boiling. if you are at sea level (up to 1,000 ft) boil pint and/or quart jars for 20 minutes.
If you are at an altitude of 1,000 feet or more, or what to use a pressure canner, see the tables below.
Processing directions for canning sliced apples in a boiling-water, a dial, or a weighted-gauge canner are given in below
Table 1. Recommended process time for Apples, sliced in a boiling-water canner. |
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Process Time at Altitudes of | ||||
Jar Size | 0 - 1,000 ft | 1,001 - 3,000 ft | 3,001 - 6,000 ft | Above 6,000 |
Pints or Quarts | 20 min | 25 | 30 | 35 |
Table 2. Process Times for Apples, sliced in a Dial-Gauge Pressure Canner. |
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Canner Pressure (PSI) at Altitudes of | |||||
Jar Size | Process Time |
0 - 2,000 ft | 2,001 - 4,000 ft | 4,001 - 6,000 ft | 6,001 - 8,000 ft |
Pints or Quarts | 8 minutes | 6 lbs/in2 | 7 lbs/in2 | 8 lbs/in2 | 9 lbs/in2 |
Table 3. Process Times for Apples, sliced in a Weighted-Gauge Pressure Canner. |
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Canner Pressure (PSI) at Altitudes of | |||
Jar Size | Process Time (Min) | 0 - 1,000 ft | Above 1,000 ft |
Pints or Quarts |
8 minutes | 5 lbs/in2 | 10 bs/in2 |
This document was adapted from the "Complete Guide
to Home Canning," Agriculture Information Bulletin No. 539, USDA,
revised 1994.
Reviewed June 2006.
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