Apple Sauce

Yesterday, we made apple sauce at my mom's house. My mom and Rachel got started in the morning, Lucy and I joined them shortly after lunch, and Heather came a little after that. My mom had picked right around 13 of those reusable grocery bag things of apples.

Lucy was in the crib there for close to 2 hours, but if she slept it was for 20 minutes. She talked and talked and talked, so I just left her there. Later she helped by taste testing.

Here is my mom cutting up apples. For the most part, she took care of cooking the apples while Heather and I cut them up. I don't have a picture of that though.

Here are the apples on their journey to become sauce:

My mom has this handy grinder so we didn't have to peel anything. It shoots the peels out the one end and the ground up cooked apples out the other. Rachel manned the apple crank.

I only have fuzzy pictures of Rachel because I forgot to put the flash on. She sure was having fun!

Here is the sauce. Yummers!

We decided to try putting it in quart sized baggies, like I do with my freezer meals. My moms friend, Beth Ann, had just made apple sauce and used baggies too. Here is Heather writing on the baggies.

Rachel put the apple sauce into the baggies. My mom had the idea to use big tin cans like we use coffee cans to make putting the apple sauce in the bags easier. I'm going to use this idea on my next cooking day for putting toppings into baggies. Yay!

Lucy helped too by playing.

When Lucy and I left, there were close to 50 bags in the fridge. We are picking it up today when we go for lunch. It will be a great side dish for the freezer meals!