Apple Pie in a Jar Canning Recipe

The early apple trees here in the midwest are beginning to hang heavy with fruit. Not wanting to waste any of the beautiful fruit that has grown from the trees in our yard I have had to seek out canning recipes for apples. If you like apple pies or apple pie filling, then this recipe is for you. The smell when this is cooking is simply amazing. The scent of cinnamon and nutmeg fills the house as the syrup is cooking.


Apple Pie in a Jar
Makes enough for 8 quarts


4 1/2 cups sugar
1 cup cornstarch
2 tsp. cinnamon
1/4 tsp. nutmeg
1 tsp. salt
10 cup water
3 T. lemon juice


Mix all ingredients together except the lemon juice. Cook until bubbly and thick. Then add the lemon juice. Peel and slice apples. Boil water in a medium sized pot. Place clean quart jars in boiling water for at least 1 minute. Carefully remove hot jar and fill with sliced apples. Cover with syrup and seal with hot ring and lid. When all of the quarts are filled place in a hot water bath for 20-25 minutes.


A note of caution: make sure the jar lids are tightly closed. Also, do not immediately remove the jars from the hot water bath. Let them cool for a while in the bath. If you remove the hot jars immediately from the hot water you run the risk of having the jars leak. I lost 2 quarts of this yummy mixture because of leakage. After all the hard work I put into peeling, coring, and slicing the apples I was slightly upset to loose any of my hard work. Rather than throw out the apple mixture from the leaking jars, I froze the mixture and will use in the next month or so on waffles or pancakes.


Apple pie in a jar can be used as apple pie filling during those cold winter months. Just open a jar and fill your favorite pie crust with this yummy mixture. Also, my family loves apple pie filling over waffles and pancakes.


I hope you enjoy this recipe next time you have extra apples to prepare.

Reaping the Blessings From the Garden

Since moving to the midwest almost 4 months ago my family and I have experienced a dramatic shift in our lifestyle. The change we have experienced has been a huge blessing.  Because this move was sanctioned and shepherded by our Heavenly Father, the blessings that have bestowed us are because of Him. While the blessings in our new life and plentiful, in this article I want to focus on the bountiful blessings from our garden.

Early this Spring my Mom and I tilled the soil, weeded, expanded her garden to provide for the extra food needs my average sized family needs, planted our seeds and seedlings, and finally said a prayer over all of our hard work. My prayer included the typical things you would say over an area of land that could potentially burst with fresh foods for my family but it also included a closing line of "grow or die". Sounds odd I know, and in my family it is more of a running joke. But when you think about it, it is true. You want your seeds and seedlings to either grow with heartiness or quickly wither and die so you can replant. In the midwest a potentially bountiful garden can be quickly destroyed by a strong storm full of wind and hail. The storm can wipe out all of your hard work in a matter of minutes. Fortunately, for us a storm of this magnitude has not come to fruition this summer. As a result, our arms are over flowing with the bounty of our hard work early this Spring.

As I am quickly coming to realize is that the vegetables from the garden are more numerous than we can consume before they spoil. As a result, canning has taken on a whole new magnitude in the past month or so. In the coming weeks I will begin sharing my canning recipes, many of which have been handed down from previous generations and have stood the test of time. My canning recipes will include salsa, tomato sauce, apple pie in a jar, refrigerator pickles, dill pickles, pickled beets, spicy pickles, spicy carrots and peppers, and many more!

If there is a canning recipe you are in need of and do not have a recipe just let me know and I will see what I have stashed away in our family canning book.

As a side note, I want to apologize for not posting lately. Reviews have deadlines so when I am busy with country life they take precedent over other postings. I miss posting desperately though. As our homeschool starts ramping up I will share more about our new journey of homeschooling in the midwest.