Question from Shirley Richey
Dear Debra,
Thank you so much for the recipes. They are wonderful!
I have a friend that’s been giving me apples this entire summer. I pick them right off her trees! They have been producing all summer & she has so many that I’ve been getting bags & bags of them. With a lot of them I’ve just peeled, sliced, put in a pie tin & freeze so I can make apple pie in the fall & winter but my freezer doesn’t have any more room& I’d like to can some of your raw applesauce.
Is it possible without cooking them? I didn’t think so. Any other ideas as to what I could do with apples to store it? Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Shirley in Cool, CA (Really! That’s the name of our town).
Debra’s Answer
Unfortunately, you can’t can raw applesauce as the cooking process for canning cooks it.
If you have lots of apples, I suggest drying them in the sun. Then you can store them without refrigeration and use them all winter.
