Fall's Annual Apple Harvest

Every fall Mr X and I go to a local apple orchard and get about 3/4 of a bushel of apples so that we can make and can our applesauce supply for the year. We just finished our last remaining jar from the previous fall's canning back in August. The varieties of apples we get always depend on what weekend we go to get our apples and how the weather has been for the year. It's usually a mix of heirloom apple varieties. This year we got Akane, Ginger Gold,  McIntosh and Jonathon apples.

This year, for the first time, I tried dehydrating some apple slices. I didn't do anything to them - no spices, sugars, juices. I just sliced them and dried them. They turned out great. Now I wish I had dehydrated more. Oh well, there's always next year.

We made 14 pints of applesauce this year. I re-make up the recipe each year. This year I didn't use brown sugar but turbinado sugar instead. That's why it's lighter in color.