HOME CANNING/ GOLDEN DELICIOUS APPLESAUCE

 

                     BY  W. T. RICKETTS & 

                                JOAN RICKETTS LOCKE

 





Every fall Dad and Bud make a request to Joan
"time for some Golden Delicious Apples."  A
quick trip to the Virginia Mountain Orchard
and then it's off to Maryland to make some
Golden Delicious Applesauce!
 

 





Ingredients:                       

Twenty Golden Delicious Apples  (no sugar)

Wash, peel and slice twenty (20)
 Golden Delicious Apples.

Place apples in a large pan with one (1) cup of water.  Cook on medium heat until apples are cooked to a soft, mushy consistency.  Stir occasionally, and you might have to add more water as apples cook.  

While apples are cooking, wash and sterilize

seven to eight pint canning jars, lids and rings.

Prepare hot water bath canner by filling with 

water to marked level.

Check applesauce for desired doneness and 

consistency, remove from heat. Using a potato masher, manually mash apples until you have the desired consistency.

Ladle applesauce into canning jars, leaving 1/4"

space at the top of jar.  Wipe jar rims, place on

lids and rings tightly.

Process applesauce in boiling hot water bath

for 30 minutes.  

Dad remembers his Mom making some delicious applesauce.  

Joan will remember making this applesauce, since 2009 with Dad.  We have a contest while peeling apples, "who will get the longest apple peel before it breaks" and yes...Dad usually does.  The summer of 2011, Dad has become quite adventurous, making one batch of applesauce and canning it on his own!

Photo:  Dad revisiting his family home in Barnesville, Md.,

April 2010.  He was born here and lived on the 600 acre

farm for 15 years.  Dad is standing in the front hallway.

He recalls "many a time I slid down that banister!"