How to Make Applesauce

Directions for Making Applesauce

Ingredients and Equipment:

  • Apples (see step 1)
  • Cinnamon
  • Jar grabber (to pick up the hot jars)
  • Lid lifter (has a magnet to pick the lids out of the boiling water where you sterilize them.
  • Jar funnel
  • At least 1 large pot (at least 8-quart size or larger)
  • Large spoons and ladles
  • Ball jars 1 Water Bath Canner (a huge pot with a lifting rack to sterilize the jars of applesauce after filling. You can use a large pot instead, but the canners are deeper, and have a rack top make lifting the jars out easier. If you plan on canning every year, they’re worth the investment.
  • Sieve: KitchenAid with the Sieve/grinder attachments ($370) or a Foley Food Mill ($25) or if you are really into a tedious, time-consuming method, a simple metal sieve.

Recipe and Directions

Step 1 - Selecting the apples

The Fuji’s and Gala’s give it an aromatic flavor! Honeycrisp and Pink Lady are also excellent, sweet, flavorful apples. Macintosh with some Jonathan mixed in make a more tart Read More…

Posted in Education at September 16th, 2008. No Comments.

Beverly Ellen Schoonmaker Alfeld, “The Jamlady” demonstrates canning techniques

Beverly Ellen Schoonmaker Alfeld, “The Jamlady”

Published author of The Jamlady Cookbook, Beverly has a B.A. and M.F.A. in Art and a M.A. in Theoretical Design and has completed school of instruction in food processing prescribed by the FDA. She has completed advanced coursework in the fields of education, administration and school law. Beverly is renowned for her innovative jam recipes and unique canning techniques.

Her next book illustrates methods of food preservation, Pickles to Relish, published in 2008. Charlie Trotter, of Charlie Trotter’s Restaurant said:

“Bev Alfeld shows her reader how to add pizazz to food… [her] book offers a myriad of exciting concepts—food preservation, the history of self-survival through fermentation, the field of culinology, and of course, healthy food education.”

Beverly Ellen Schoonmaker Alfeld will be the first in a series of educational lectures and demonstrations presented by the Geneva Green Market. She will be discussing canning techniques at the lecture. The event will be held May 21st, 6:30 p.m.- 8:30 p.m at Inglenook Pantry, 11 N. Fifth Street in Geneva, IL. Her lecture begins at 7 p.m. Light refreshments will be served. A $20 donation for the fundraiser would be appreciated.

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Posted in Education, Events at May 7th, 2008. No Comments.