This is for all of my friends who picked a million apples at our Labor Day apple picking party. Here are some recipes that are DELICIOUS.
Apple Pie Filling for canning:
4 ½ cups sugar
1 cup cornstarch
2 tsp. cinnamon
¼ tsp. nutmeg
1 tsp. salt
10 cups water
3 Tbs. lemon juice
10 lbs. apples ( I used 23 apples )
Combine sugar, cornstarch, spices, and salt in large pot. Mix until the cornstarch is completely mixed with the sugar. Add water. Cook and stir until thick and bubbly. Add lemon juice. Cover and set aside while preparing apples. Peel, core, and slice apples. Mix with the syrup. Pack into 7 clean, warm, quart sized jars leaving 1 inch head space. Put your lids into boiling water and let sit for a minute. Take a paper towel and wash of the tops and sides of your jars, then put lids on your jars. Twist caps on and place in your water bath canner. Once the water is boiling set your timer for 20 min. Leave on your counter ( I put mine upside down) for 24 hours.
Most Amazing Flaky Pie Crust (Grandma Thompson)
2 cups SIFTED flour
½ tsp salt
¾ cup + 1 overflowing Tbsp. butter flavored Crisco
4 Tbsp. cold water (I put ice and water in a cup before I start so its nice and cold)
Tips from Kyle’s adorable grandma:
- really sift the flour, and mix with salt
- she always uses more than ¾ cup Crisco but not quite a cup
- it has to be butter flavored and it has to be Crisco
- DO NOT OVER MIX I use my hands and just crumble
- If you are using this pie crust for a top and bottom, double recipe
- If you are using for a cream filled pie where you have to bake it first, bake at 400 degrees for 13 minutes. And to prevent big bubbles place another pie plate of the same size ontop of your crust before you put it in the oven. Check in at 11 min. and slowly take off extra pie plate.
Fresh Apple Pie:
5-6 cups sliced apples peeled and cored
Add:
½ cup +1 Tbsp. sugar
½ tsp. nutmeg
1½ tsp. cinnamon
3 Tbsp. flour
Mix and pour into pie plate
Crumbly Topping:
1 cup flour
1 cup sugar
Mix with fingers until crumply and crumble over apples.
Bake pie at 350 for 45 minutes to 1 hour.
Caramel Apples (these yummies are an Aunt Teri recipe….soooo good!)
Homemade Caramel:
2 sticks butter
2 cups sugar
½ c. sifted flour
2 c. light corn syrup
2 cans sweetened condensed milk
1 tsp. vanilla
White chocolate (any kind…chocolate chips or chocolate squares but not almond bark)
Cinnamon and sugar
* This makes enough for 8-10 apples but my friend Taryn discovered that the extras stay good in a container in the fridge and are delicious if you heat it up in microwave and dip apples in later.)
Before you start wash all of your apples and set on counter. Put a piece of wax paper in front of them, and get out a hot pad, a big slotted spoon, a ladle, and a fork. Open both cans of condensed milk. Pour one into a small bowl and mix with flour. Also get a cup with cold water and a spoon ready so you can test candy stage. Get a small bowl and make a mixture of cinnamon and sugar to sprinkle over the apples when they are finished.
In heavy saucepan, melt butter. Add corn syrup and sugar. Boil for 2 ½ minutes stirring CONSTANTLY! Take pan off heat and slowly add condensed milk while you are stirring constantly (if you pour it in while it is on the burner or don’t quickly stir it in you can end up with little chunks of burnt milk in your caramel so be careful at this part) Once it is all mixed in, place back on burner and stir constantly until it reaches soft-ball stage. (you can see that it gets a little bit thicker..take your spoon and put a little bt into the cup of cold water. If you can reach in and form a soft little ball with the caramel they you are finished or you can look at your thermometer and wait until it gets between 234 and 240)
Take off burner and add vanilla.
Take your pan right over to the hot pad near the apples. I like to wait about 2-3 minutes so the caramel is a little cooler/thicker but no more than 3 min. Then place an apple onto the slotted spoon, and with the ladle or measuring cup pour the caramel onto the apple. Once it is covered kind of shake it and then scrape the extra drippings from the bottom of the spoon/apple. Use the fork to scoop it off onto the waxed paper to cool. Continue with all of the other apples.
Melt white chocolate in a small bowl in microwave. Dip fork into chocolate and drizzle all over the apple…I like a lot of chocolate J. Immediately sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar mixture so that it sticks to the chocolate. Let cool on counter then you can eat them right away, but they will be a little bit sticky. After they cool I wrap them in plastic wrap and place in refrigerator! SOOOOOO YUMMY!!! Enjoy!
Apple Sauce Mix In!
I made a few jars of regular apple sauce and then a few jars of cinnamon apple sauce….but instead of just adding cinnamon I did Kyle’s moms yummy trick which the kids had a lot of fun with. While the applesauce was still hot we dumped in some Red Hot candies and stirred them around. The kids loved watching it change from yellow to a pretty red, and I love how it tastesJ
And our last apple project was a fun one! When you have kids helping you pick apples you sometimes end up with a few (or a lot) of apples that are bruised or just not so yummy looking….so we decided to used those for an art project! We got a box, aprons, and some paint, then I sliced two apples in half so the girls each had 2 circles to stamp, Then took one apple and sliced it in half and used a star cookie cutter to press into the apple (see picture) either pull away extra apple while the cutter is still in place, or use a knife to cut it away. I did the same thing with a heart shape. The kids had a blast stamping circles, stars and hearts into paint. And there you have it
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