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The apple pie filling fiasco<\/span><\/p>\n

Just after lunch yesterday, I decided to continue with apples, but I shifted my focus to try canning some apple pie filling.  My mom had left me some jars (quart size) and the recipe, so I thought I’d be able to handle it without too much difficulty.  I was wrong.<\/p>\n

First, I wasn’t sure how many apple slices it would take, so I called my mom (we talked for 20-30 minutes…not just about apples, of course!).  Then I mixed up the sugar\/water solution and got it heating through while I talked on the phone and sliced more apples.  After the water\/sugar solution boils, you are supposed to add corn starch. <\/p>\n

I hate corn starch.<\/p>\n

I understand that corn starch is a natural and (sometimes) effective thickening agent, but I have nothing but trouble with the stuff.  By the time it was time to add the corn starch, I had hung up with my mom.  This was a problem. I mixed the corn starch with a bit of water so make a slurry and poured it into the sugar water.  I ended up with sheets of gelatin floating in my water, but not much thickening.  So I called my mom back.  It turns out that I needed to stir the slurry into the sugar water as if I was making gravy.  Oops.  So I fished out all the gelatin, and tried to mix up another, smaller batch of slurry.  It turned into a rock hard block of corn starch.  (Now I was getting annoyed.)  I tried again, managed to spill corn starch all down the front of myself, but finally got a decent slurry by adding more water until the rock-hard corn starch turned liquid.  Then I tempered the slurry into a small amount of the sugar water and then used that portion to thicken the whole.  It worked much better. Whew.<\/p>\n

Now I had to wash the jars, though, so they would be ready when the thickening sugar water was ready.  I went to get the quart jars from the bag, picked up the first two, and realized that I don’t have lids for that size of jar.  Grrr!  So I grabbed pint jars instead and started to wash them, and I managed to slosh water all down the front of myself.  ARGGGHHH!<\/p>\n

So, finally, the jars were ready, the slurry was ready (hot corn starch really smells, BTW), and the apples were ready.  I started filling them, burned my hands slightly on the hot lids, and finally got a canner full of apple slices boiling on the stove.  They all sealed and not one boiled over.  But by the time I was done with one canner full of apple pie filling…I was done.  I cleaned up myself, cleaned up my kitchen and went and did other things for the rest of the day.  <\/p>\n

I may never make apple pie filling again…until next year anyway!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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