{"id":3502,"date":"2013-09-11T17:07:24","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T21:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=3502"},"modified":"2013-09-11T17:07:24","modified_gmt":"2013-09-11T21:07:24","slug":"what-do-you-do-with-80-pounds-of-crabapples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2013\/09\/11\/what-do-you-do-with-80-pounds-of-crabapples\/","title":{"rendered":"What do you do with 80 pounds of crabapples?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m making applesauce! My friend just gave us a feed sack full of crab apples that she and her husband picked. Since she has more than she wants, she shared with me. So I got out my Mehu Liisa and handy stock pot and started steaming apples. I sat on the couch and cut them in half, then filled the pot and Mehu Liisa fruit holder, and let &#8217;em rip. I not only ran the softened apples through my Victorio tomato strainer making the nicest applesauce but siphoned off quarts of beautiful pink juice from the steam juicer. Adding a bit of sugar to the sauce, I canned and canned all afternoon. So far, I&#8217;ve taken 32 pints of sauce and a few quarts of juice out of the canner. And I still have apples to go! Wow! It doesn&#8217;t take much to make a homesteader happy does it?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Pink-applesauce.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3503\" alt=\"Pink-applesauce\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Pink-applesauce.gif\" width=\"446\" height=\"398\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Will&#8217;s been plowing, discing, and picking up stumps, rocks, etc. from the area of our new forty he&#8217;s working up. The ground is clay and quite acidic. He will be spreading both manure and lime on it and discing that in as well &#8212; hopefully before cold weather.<\/p>\n<p>Our pumpkin patch did fair with minimal help from us. Not as well as we would have liked, but good enough to do it again better next spring. We&#8217;re always looking ahead and planning how to do IT better. &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m making applesauce! My friend just gave us a feed sack full of crab apples that she and her husband picked. Since she has more than she wants, she shared with me. So I got out my Mehu Liisa and handy stock pot and started steaming apples. I sat on the couch and cut them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3502"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}