Today was a MAKING day. I started by making up a batch of homemade cinnamon spread. Typically it would be an expensive thing to make seeing that I use real butter but the local IGA has it on free if you have 4 filled cards of stamps. Which I typically have, so mine is free! :) And K is a HUGE fan of cinnamon spread on his bagels in the morning.
One happy helper! She's up and raring to get going. Bring it on!
One helper who is not so happy until he's had his morning cup of Joe. K's lovely 'mug'!
The finished cinnamon spread (1 lb butter + 3 cups icing sugar + 5 tsp cinnamon). Yummy!
Now onto the BIG project of the day: APPLESAUCE! Note- it's on the TO DO list! Love crossing stuff off!
All the apples I picked at a friend's house. Later another friend stopped by and brought me even more! Those ones were green though.
K did lots of cutting and I definitely would still be making applesauce if it was not for him! Thank you honey!
Three pots at a time making beautiful pink mush of those apples. I think we ended up boiling at least 12 pots of apples today. Why do I cook on hot days? It was 24 degrees C outside today but definitely felt hotter in the sun and in my kitchen. On a side note, it was cloudy first thing so I was really excited, but it didn't stay. Still hoping for those thunderstorms the weatherman was predicting for tonight.
Princess A making sure all the containers are without lids so they can be filled quickly. She was very serious about her job and quite good at it, as you can see. :)
First batch is in their Dutch tupperware and labeled, ready for the freezer.
You can see the difference in colour because of the apples used. The red apples made pink sauce and the green ones made yellow. The yellow applesauce is all sweetened with sugar and cinnamon. Yummy!
All the applesauce ready for the freezer. Notice all the Dutch Tupperware in the back rows. I now have no more regular sized containers in my cupboards. They are all in my freezer. When we do pie apples I'll have to use bags again.
But in all it was a very productive day and I'm happy to say that we now have 14 large containers of unsweetened applesauce and 12 smaller containers of sweetened applesauce. And Princess A seems to like it when she got a little taste! :D
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