Applesauce sauce sauce

[primsong]

My trees are utterly loaded down with apples this year, the bees did a good job! 

Branches are hanging low with so much fruit.  I gathered up four buckets full and am in the process of making them into applesauce, the kitchen smells fabulous and all my big pots are full of steaming sauce.  I'll freeze it once it cools down and then work on spicing and cooking it down for apple butter another day so it isn't too much of a job all at once.  Only one jar of apple butter left from last time, didn't realize it's been six years but sure enough that's the date on that last jar.  Glad it keeps.

Wish you guys were closer, I'd totally be asking my flist if they'd like to come pick apples otherwise!

Comments

[senmut]

Wow. We don't usually get to pick until last week of September/first week of October. Last year it was the 17th of October, but we actually wound up having to deal with faint frost that night on what we'd picked and laid out to sort.

[primsong]

We had a small number of days in June that really spiked in temperature, I think it must have hurried them along a bit. Usually we pick in August, but Gravensteins normally do come in earlier than some other varieties. There's almost more apples than leaves on them, it's really quite amazing.