Darrell and I decided that we wanted to give canning a shot. We were pushed along when we stopped at a fruit stand on our way back from Eastern Washington and they had 25 pound boxes of peaches for $12. We scored! So, to start along, we decided to make some peach jam.
After we did the peach jam, we made canned some sliced peaches:
After the sliced peaches, our neighbors had an apple tree that did really well this year, so they had an abundance of apples. Lucky us got a few bags from them and went ahead and made applesauce and apple pie filling:
After all that, we still had some peaches (We even put some sliced in the freezer for later), so we made some more peach jam since we really liked the first batch.
All in all, we were pretty happy with how things turned out. Darrell didn’t like the applesauce since he didn’t want to add sugar and it ended up being to tart for him. And we haven’t tried the apple pie filling yet.