Last weekend, the stars aligned and we went apple picking. The youngerchild was home from college and the rest of us were free. It was also the last possible weekend we could go, as the season was ending. We picked a half-bushel of Macintoshes, Honeycrisps, Crimson Crisps, and a few Cortlands.
I used the Cortlands to make a pie. We had a breakfast of baked apples, using some of the Macintoshes, and with the leftover filling I made an apple crisp with a few more Macintoshes. The Honeycrisps are for eating. That left the rest for applesauce. Which I finally made today.
The youngerchild likes applesauce as a snack and, for a while, we were buying cases of the single serving cups. But I can do that, too! I found all the 4-ounce jars I had, a total of eight, and filled those. The rest of the sauce went into eleven 8-ounce jars, for a grand total of fifteen cups of applesauce.
Now I just have to work out how to get the applesauce to the youngerchild, as mailing a package with that much weight would be very expensive. I guess I'll bring it up next time I drive there.
