Pressure Canned Grape Juice

This is the most delicious and easy way to make juice!  It tastes nothing like store-bought grape juice, so if you're expecting that you will be disappointed.  It has a fresh, fruity sweetness flavor.  Perfect for summertime I'm thinking.  And this recipe will be great for the times when we get seeded grapes in the co-op basket because we don't like those.  I can't wait to experiment with other fruits and berries!

Fill each quart jar with:
1 cup grapes
1/8 cup pure sugar cane (you can skip the sugar...)
Fill to 1/2 inch with boiling water

Process in pressure canner for 10 minutes at 5lbs pressure.

Before

After

Strained and in the fridge ready to go!  What a pretty color!

Apple Picking & Canning

We spent our Saturday morning picking the last of the apples for applesauce.

Donyea & Chanchito working as a team. :)

Bobbing for apples!  Haha!

Washing and washing and washing!

The amazing crew!

This is the final product for today (21 Pints and 2 quarts).  We only got to 1/3 of the apples...oh boy I know what I'll be busy doing this week!

Wayne made us super delicious apple pie with homemade whipped cream! =)

*Update: After four long days of hard work, we now have 55 jars of delicious homemade applesauce (11 quarts and 44 pints)! The boys have been loving it in their lunches! Kegan was so excited to share it that he already brought a jar to school for his teacher...said he couldn't wait until Christmas, he wanted to give it to her now. :)

I've found LunchBots makes the perfect to-go applesauce container - stainless steel, leakproof with a screw top ($20 for 2) ~ http://lunchbots.com/rounds-stainless-steel-food-container-blue.html