There was a piddling fourth dimension for slow-stitching yesterday morning, but so I got lead to locomote laying waste matter to the apples. First, I gear upwards my medieval torture device, peculiarly formulated for torturing apples, tomatoes, together with diverse other vagrant fruits together with vegetables. I can't retrieve if I told y'all I'd purchased this...it's an attachment for my Kitchenaid mixer. I've never gone inward besides much for the attachments, but I saw this online. It looked similar a expert timesaver, together with so I bit. It volition grind meat too.
Then I got to locomote cutting apples. Only i finger was sacrificed yesterday. That'll learn me to continue my fingers out of the way. When the apples went into the pot for cooking they looked similar this.
After almost twenty minutes of cooking, they looked similar this.
I bought the larger tray for this device. It's commonly almost $10, but when I bought them together, I alone paid an additional $3, so what the heck? The apples went from the stove-top to existence poured into the tray, thus. My i electrical load almost this set-up is that it's variety of high upwards on the counter, together with so I was using a pace stool to learn myself upwards a piddling higher. It's actually variety of a bad excogitation to pour scalding apples piece asset the pot over one's head. (Important security tip of the day. Stick alongside me.)
The attachment comes alongside a slap-up piddling combination wrenching device/fruit pusher. One destination industrial plant equally a wrench to accept the whole contraption apart when you're finished. The other industrial plant to force the nutrient through the chute. Then I turned her on together with watched her work. Here's a positively fascinating video so y'all tin run across it for yourself. Applesauce goes into the silverish bowl inward the left, dregs become into the plastic pitcher on the right. If y'all can't run across the video, so click correct here.
Here's a person-standing-on-a-step-stool-eye's view. I ended upwards putting an overturned bowl nether the pitcher to learn it a piddling closer to the chute. Sometimes the materials variety of curled nether together with roughshod into the applesauce. Getting the pitcher upwards higher helped.
When it was all finished...voila! Applesauce here.
Dregs here.
That brownish matter is a cinnamon stick. I couldn't notice it until I started pouring the apples into the feed tray, together with so I but dropped it inward there. (Just wanted to allow y'all know it wasn't the sacrificial finger.)
Applesauce was alone the commencement detail on yesterday's menu. By day's end, I had five pints of applesauce together with seven half-pints of Apple Pie Jam...and allow me say you, the jam is seriously yummy. You tin notice the recipe correct here. It was pretty quick together with piece of cake to make, although that is where I sacrificed my finger. Be careful.
Since I induce got almost a zillion piddling jars of things I've canned so far this yr already opened upwards inward the refrigerator, I wasn't going to opened upwards the apple tree pie jam correct away. The Resident Engineer forced me to. Then he forced me to swallow some over vanilla H2O ice cream final night. It's a lamentable existence, allow me say you, when people are forcing y'all to swallow upside-down pie a la mode.
When yesterday's canning was done, I had some fourth dimension to sew. I sewed the strips together to brand the pumpkins for the Pumpkin Pie wallhanging. This allowed me to role some of my smallest scraps...always a expert thing.
All the while, The Watcher was there. He's my sewing room buddy.
When all was said together with done for yesterday, I had the pumpkins sewn together. The leaves together with stems all the same postulate top-stitching.
I was getting variety of tired past times then...duh...and so I decided to quit for the day. Before I left, I set out some of the fabrics. It's variety of difficult to run across inward this picture, but I induce got inward heed to role the greenish together with black orangish for a edge to a greater extent than or less both the pumpkin blocks together with the embroidered pumpkin, together with so role that greenish leafy batik on the left equally a edge all around.
My slice tin live no larger than 17.5 inches broad past times 22 inches long to check on the wall where I desire to hang it. The pumpkin blocks are already 12 inches, so in that location isn't a lot of room to locomote with. It mightiness live a piddling dark, together with so I'm all the same experimenting. I may alter my heed almost that black orangish together with role something golden instead...or peradventure a lighter orange...I don't know.
Today I'm dorsum to canning to a greater extent than applesauce together with also some maple bourbon apple tree butter. The apple tree butter is commencement cooked down, so placed inward the oven for several hours. Since today is also a CSA pick-up day, there's no fourth dimension to waste. I'll learn correct to hap the apples and, hopefully, induce got some fourth dimension for slow-stitching later. I'd similar to learn those names for the Shop Hop finished earlier month's end.
So...how practise y'all similar them apples?