may i ask if you would mind sharing your applesauce recipe, and how you freeze it? i buy bushels of apples each fall -- i live in an area that has many apple orchards. i freeze my apples, peeled and chunked. i use some of the apple peels to make apple peel jelly -- very tasty and a lovely clear pinkish color to it.
I started buying 25-pound bags of sugar last year when I started making my own pickles. I store the sugar, in its bag, in my grandmother's large tin can. Same with flour; I store that in the freezer.
I've been making things from scratch forever and a day....I try to stay away from all mixes and packages of stuff. It's very expensive and, in the long run, it's not good for you. A while back, we talked here about Jell-O puddings going from a 6-pack to a 4-pack. I haven't bought it since. I make my own chocolate pudding and I make homemade tapioca pudding or rice pudding for Rick for his lunch. We have some 4-ounce plastic containers that are perfect for him to take in his lunch box and on Sunday nights, I'll make pudding for him for the week. Rick is a big applesauce fan, too, and he will often take applesauce in his lunch. I make applesauce every fall and stick it into the freezer for him throughout the year.
Do you have a sourdough starter?
We have a thread here somewhere about pressure cookers. And we also have a thread in the Recipe Exchange for recipes for pressure cookers, but I'm not sure what all is in there. If you'd like, please add your favorite recipes for your pressure cooker. I'm always interested in recipes...love using my pc.
Also my crock pots...nothing like having dinner all ready when I get home from work.
My kids bought me a food dehydrator several years ago and I'm having a ball experimenting with dehydrating food. If you've ever eaten a fresh raisin, you'll never go back to the boxes, trust me. Same with dried pineapple. Mushrooms. Onions. Just delicious. I can eat dehydrated onions as a snack!But boy, the onions can really stink the house up while they're drying. Whew! One batch I made almost brought tears to Rick's eyes.
I always make my own salad dressings, too. They're better than what you can buy and often, they're lower in fat or calories, too.
But even making things from scratch will bite you because when the prices of staples increase, you pay more anyway. You can't win. Still I make as much from scratch as I can.
i'm hoping to buy a food dehydrator this fall.