Yet more adventures in canning with the three musketeers

Saturday was another day of canning for Marian, Trudi and me. Our goal was to pickle 40 pounds of beets for Marian and Trudi and making applesauce for Marian and me out of our three 5-gallon buckets of gravensteins. We had three different plans for applesauce. Marian took care of one bucket by coring them without pealing, then cooking them down, and rubbing them through the colander. One batch was made by cooking the apples in the crockpot with three cinnamon sticks for most of the day. The last batch was made by cooking the apples in the microwave. The three methods resulted in three very different apple sauces, although none of them needed sugar.

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