Wednesday, 16 October 2024

Apple day






 Juice now settling in a 2 gallon bin 🙂


Floor steam cleaned!!

14 comments:

JayCee said...

We didn't get enough this year to do anything other than eat them.
An apple a day each only lasted a week!

Tom said...

...I plan to make an apple pie this afternoon.

gz said...

I had three apples from my tree this year....up by two on last year! I can't complain, it was a gift...but I think I will be getting one or two more trees this year!

northsider said...

Have you ever made Scrumpy?

Fresca said...

Beautiful!

Debra She Who Seeks said...

Lots of good vitamins in that apple juice!

Barbara Rogers said...

Oh what lovely cider/juice of apples! I had a few cups of cider that had to be tossed after 4 days of no refrigeration - sad. When I opened the jug to throw it down the drain it had started to ferment. I should have seen if it was any good.

Susan said...

2 gallons of fresh apple juice with no preservatives is really good.
Nice work.

angela said...

Do you drink it as apple juice or do you ferment it?
I hope you get a few bottles at least

gz said...

Tried once a long long time ago..not very successful

gz said...

I bottle then process it...water bath from cold then hold at 190⁰F for 20 minutes before fully closing the lids.
Insulation tape around the lid, then cool on its side...you see if you have any leakers then...and when cool dip the taped lids in wax.
It will keep for over a year or two at least..This must be pasteurization...
My daughter does it by holding the juice at temperature then filling hot bottles but I prefer this way

Steve Reed said...

I bet that was a lot of work! (Especially including the steam cleaning.)

gz said...

The steam cleaning was the easy bit Steve! Like a little vacuum cleaner, but it pushes out steam instead of sucking!!...with a cloth pad over the head

Granny Sue said...

Lovely juice! We usually make cider, using an old fashioned press. None made this year, but still plenty in the cellar from last year. We put the apples through the press, then heat the juice to just boiling, skim it, jar it up, and process in a water bath canner.