I wanted to start the new year properly. First I slept til 10:30, which is horribly late for me. Typically, 9am is late for me, so 10:30 was just absurd! After breakfast, I decided to spend the day preserving the apples from the tree out back. It hasn't failed, the past 2 years I have neglected to preserve as many as possible. I dry them, then forget to take them out and they get soggy again with the humidity in the kitchen. Or I make applesauce and then eat it all.
This year I'm making applesauce and putting it in the freezer is meal size portions. The day before we want applesauce, I can pop it into the fridge to thaw and voila! Another idea that I had, or possibly stumbled across in some homesteading/gardening forum, is preserving apples for apple pie. I made my first apple pie 2 years ago and it was delicious. Out of last years harvest I only made 1 apple pie and as my bf's son said, "I was sad we only had one pie." So right now, as I type, he's out back, high in the apple tree picking me bunches of apples for tomorrow's task.
I'll peel, core and slice the apples, season them with sugar and cinnamon, and place them in some old flimsy pie tins. I'll freeze them til just hard, then pop them out and put them in my foodsaver to vaccum pack it. Then back in the freezer and whenever we want applie pies, I'll just need to make a crust and pop the frozen filling into the crust and bake. I'll have to adjust the cooking time and temperature to allow for the frozenness, but it would be a great experiment.
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