Oct. 22, 2007 - Applesauce and canning
At our M&M Night last Thursday we made homemade applesauce and canned some, enough for everyone to take home a little jar they made themselves! It was a lesson in "many hands make light work". We had 4 teens and 7 (plus me) adults and got almost 2 bushels of apples processed, cooked and canned (plus taking 1/2 hour for some bible study) done in 2 hours.
There was quite a bit of applesauce left and I took that home and processed some more into apple butter. I'll be canning this in pint jars and taking those BACK to M&M this week. We'll be making homemade wheat bread (teaching with bread machines, mixers and by hand so they'll have experience using all tools available). Then one of our ladies will show how to wrap and decorate the apple butter jars and the loaves of bread in a pretty way to give as gifts.
For anyone interested in adding to their own recipes and directions for your homemaking (most won't need this, that's for sure!), I'm going to copy here what I passed out for our Life Skills Notebook. My notebook has all these lessons/recipes in clear page protectors.
