Apple Sauce

How to make apple sauce

Ingredients:

1.3 kg mixed apples

450 kg sugar

1 lt water

Half a lemon

Chop of the tops, bottoms, peel and core the apples. 

Add the water, apples, sugar and lemon to a large pot.

(I forgot to core them) 

Bring up to a gentle boil. Once boiling, reduce down and simmer till the apples are soft. 

Mash the apples, and push through a sieve. 

Return to the heat.

To jar up click here.

Leave on a drying rack till cool. 

This has been made with sugar so should have some shelf life. Am going to see how long it lasts for to check. I would say a month. 

Slow Cooked Plum Chutney

Being a family of 5, budget is always on my mind when shopping. 

There where loads of plums down to 20p each, soon as I saw them I thought of chutney. I haven't ever made or tasted plum chutney, but I like the sound of it.

Ingredients;

Plums 

Apples 

500ml white wine vinegar

450g sugar

4 tablespoons of sultanas

(I added a few sprigs of fresh time.)

I always keep some vinegar to hand, make my own too. 

With slow cooker up high, add vinegar plums, sugar. 

Apples also on sale :) 

Add apples.

Add santanas.

Mix and add thyme. 

It's on now, so will update with how it comes out. 

Update:

Over night on low, there is lots of water still so now on high to burn it off! I kept it on a little longer and blended it up a little.

Update: 

I got fed up of waiting and popped it on the hob for a bit till started to thicken.

On the rack cooling off, just labels to go. Will know in a month if it's any good. 

I love turning an old reused jar into something pretty. It's easy to come up with a cute label or tag. This is the design I made for the Christmas jars I made. 

Loved how easy the labels where so I've kept making them.   

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