A few days ago I asked my husband to pick up 20 pounds of Granny Smith apples from Market Basket {they are on sale for $0.99 a pound} because I wanted to can a few jars of THE BEST apple pie filling on the planet earth.
Well to make a long story short, apparently I read the recipe wrong and I didn’t need 20 pounds of apples and yada yada yada, pretty much all of yesterday was spent in the kitchen getting a facial over steaming pots while canning 23 jars {!!} of apple pie filling.
Yikes. Someone is going to be eating a lot of pies this winter. And I think her name may be Mavis. 🙂
If my goal was to fill the canning cupboard before winter, I am well on my way.
Fact: You may be getting a jar of apple pie filling for Christmas.
Then again, you might also receive a jar of carrot cake jam.
Who knows. At this point if you are on my Christmas list and live nearby, you may just get a giant basket of canned goods because I am back in the rhythm of canning and having the best time!!
So far this week I have canned:
23 jars of apple pie filling
8 jars marmalade
14 jars carrot cake jam
I think I might pop by the farmstand today and see if I can get a case of canning tomatoes and whip up some jars of salsa next.
Canning Season has finally arrived here at Casa De Butterfield! And I couldn’t be happier. My weekend plans? Canning! 🙂
How about YOU? What are you doing this weekend that will keep you out of trouble? Curious minds want to know.
Have a good one,
~Mavis
Nancy Settel says
Oh the smell in your home must be outstanding at this point. Before making all apple pies I did see a few days ago making pork chops (thick cut) in the crock pot with a can of apple pie filling over the top and letting them cook on low for 6-8 hrs. Always worth a try!
James says
Wanted to thank you for sharing the carrot cake jam recipe over a decade ago. I’ve been making it for about 5 years now as Christmas gifts, and my sister’s mother-in-law sings the praises of it to everyone she knows. She said it was one of the few things that she really enjoyed eating when she couldn’t taste anything when she had COVID, so I make sure there are jars of that and apple butter in her stocking every year.
Mavis Butterfield says
So glad everyone likes it!! I love spooning it over vanilla ice cream. 🙂
heatherruark says
How much is in each one of those glass jars with the apple pie filling? How many jars would you need to make an apple pie?
Mavis Butterfield says
The large jars are 35 ounces {so about a quart}. You need 1 quart of filling for a 9″ pie. 🙂 There will be plenty of apple pie this winter, that’s for sure.
Elise in the SF Bay Area says
Wow! I was going to ask the same question, they certainly don’t LOOK like they’re a quart 🙂
Good for you Mavis, making yummies!
My step-dad thinned his granny smith tree and brought me a 5-gallon bucket almost full of small thinning apples. I looked up a recipe for unpeeled apple butter (use an immersion blender is essentially the answer) and I got 13 half-pints of delicious apple butter from half the bucket! I haven’t gotten around to the second half yet. May this weekend… I nothing else, I rescued half of them from the compost!
Mary G says
The marmalade looks so pretty in the light. I wanted to note that apple pie filling is good with pancakes, especially gingerbread pancakes! You’ve inspired me to try marmalade for the first time this year (from the can you used).
Kippy says
Yummy! Trader Joe’s is now selling Apple Pie Spread. It is magnificent. Breakfasts this week have been toasted English muffins with butter and that AP Spread.
HollyG says
The applesauce from the big tree in the orchard is finished (this morning) and over the weekend I want to put up some apple sauce from the small tree, some dessert apples and maybe some apple butter.
Tiffany F says
Friday: canning/dehydrating, kids soccer
Satirday: processing chickens with friends
Sunday: church
Sue S. says
That window sure does look pretty with all of the jars stacked up. Not-so-small girl has a strings ensemble in the morning, then we go on a yarn crawl with friends, church ends the day; Sunday is #2 weekend for another dance feis. Enjoy everyone!
Wendy C says
Our apple tree finally produced enough apples to do more than munch on so I canned applesauce-it is so good! I have also canned plum jelly and muscadine jelly.
Samantha says
Pizza sauce from our plethora of tomatoes this year in the fridge waiting to go into jars today. Rotisserie chicken in jars on the counter waiting to be cleaned and put into the pantry. I may have to try out that carrot cake jam this year!
Sue R. says
Pick and make grape juice; applesauce and apple cider; finish canning tomatoes in various ways; pick beans…over the next few days! Busy and productive! The canning shelves are overflowing.
Cecile Hoare says
Mavis, since you are a sweets person why not make yourself some hand pies with your apple pie filling. A hand pie with a tea mid afternoon in the late fall, winter or early spring-heck, anytime for that matter! You could make them up and freeze them on cookie sheets then stack them in an air tight container. Pop a couple out (so HH can have one too) and bake them while you’re waiting for your water to boil!
Mavis Butterfield says
Great idea!