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Canning Applesauce
Canning applesauce has got to be the fastest and easiest way to preserve apples. This simple water bath canning recipe for homemade applesauce is perfect for beginners!
⏱️ Prep & Cook: 45 min⏳ Prep: 20 min🔥 Cook: 10 min👤 Ashley Adamant📖 creativecanning
🥘 Ingredients
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🍳 Cookware
- ●pot
📝 Preparation Steps
1
When selecting apples for canning, you want to choose sweet, juicy, and crisp apples.
Apples
2
Wash, peel, and core the apples. If you'd like, you can slice the apples into water containing ascorbic acid to prevent browning.
Apples
3
Place the drained slices into a large 8-10 quart pot and add half a cup of water.
4
Stir occasionally to prevent burning while heating the apples.
Apples
5
Heat them quickly, until tender. This will take anywhere from 5 to ⏱️ 20 minutes.
6
Use a sieve or a food mill to create a smooth texture, or you can bypass this step if you prefer chunk-style applesauce.
7
If you prefer your applesauce to be on the sweeter side, you can add 1/8th cup of sugar per every quart of sauce. Taste the sauce and add more sugar if you prefer a sweeter taste.
Sugar (optional)
8
Reheat the sauce to boiling and fill hot sauce into pint or quart jars, leaving a half-inch headspace.
9
Wipe the jars clean of any residue, add the lids, and bands.
10
Transfer the jars to either a boiling water canner or a pressure canner. For a boiling water canner, you'll process pints for ⏱️ 15 minutes and quarts for ⏱️ 20 minutes. If you'd prefer to use a pressure canner, you'll process pints for eight minutes and quarts for ⏱️ 10 minutes at 6 lbs of pressure in a dial-gauge pressure canner. If you're using a weighted-gauge canner, you'll process pints for eight minutes and quarts for ⏱️ 10 minutes at 5 lbs of pressure.
11
After your processing time has finished, let the jars cool in the canner (and if you're using a pressure canner, wait for the pressure to return to zero).
12
Remove the jars and place them on a clean dish rag to cool at room temperature for another ⏱️ 24 hours.
13
Check the seals, label, and store. Your applesauce should be safe to eat for at least one year.
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