{"id":7444,"date":"2014-09-08T01:14:39","date_gmt":"2014-09-08T05:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allandouglas.dougbittinger.com\/blog\/?p=7444"},"modified":"2025-04-21T01:56:39","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T05:56:39","slug":"canning-apples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/canning-apples\/","title":{"rendered":"I Can Can Apples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summer is winding down and our canner is getting lots of use.\u00a0 This time I planned to can the apples as pie filling for quick easy pies this fall, but that went amiss.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first year since we moved in here that we had a decent apple harvest.\u00a0 I\u2019m pretty sure that has something to do with the 3\u201d thick layer of wood chips I put around the base of the tree last fall.<\/p>\n<p>This year I pulled a market basket full of apples off the tree.\u00a0 This may have been a little early, but I didn\u2019t want to wait until they were all wormy.\u00a0 I put them in a big paper bag and let them finish ripening there.\u00a0 I canned them up yesterday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7445\" src=\"http:\/\/PineyMountainFoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-content\/uploads\/Apples_Canned.jpg\" alt=\"canned apples\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/>I got nine pints from that basket of apples.\u00a0 Yes, I can count: one didn\u2019t seal and it\u2019s in the refrigerator.\u00a0 I probably forgot to wipe the rim.\u00a0 By the time I got to the canning run it was getting late and Marie would be home soon and I was rushing.<\/p>\n<p>These are just plain apples, no seasoning or fancy stuff done to them.\u00a0 I figure they\u2019re more versatile that way.\u00a0 That wasn\u2019t my original plan, but I\u2019ll get to that in a bit.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Read the rest on Grit Magazine\" href=\"https:\/\/www.grit.com\/food\/kitchen-techniques\/canned-apples\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer is winding down and our canner is getting lots of use.&nbsp; This time I planned to can the apples as pie filling for quick easy pies this fall, but that went amiss. This is the first year since we moved in here that we had a decent apple harvest.&nbsp; I&rsquo;m pretty sure that has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/canning-apples\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I Can Can Apples&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[68],"class_list":["post-7444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-share-the-love","tag-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19742,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7444\/revisions\/19742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pineymountainfoster.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}