268/365 Sunday September 25, 2011

I'm finally caught up!  Keeping up with this blog has been tricky lately.  But since I have the morning to myself today (Andy is at work on a Sunday... bummer), I have time to catch up on the blog.  Yesterday I made two of mom's cakes.  The one in the last post, and this one.  This one looks better, but I'm not sure how it'll taste.  It may have double the baking powder.  Or it might have just the right amount, and have been over mixed!

I asked Carolynn what happens if there is too much powder here's what she said:

Sometimes it won't matter, sometimes it will rise too much and then collapse, sometimes it will just be a little lighter.  Let me know what happens. Usually with powder it's not as bug a deal as soda...

It is in the freezer for another time.  We shall see how it goes when we eventually eat it.

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In other apple related news... I made a delicious apple cake from mom's recipe yesterday.  I didn't give it enough time to cool and ended up with what mom would call a "cake quake"!  Everyone says it tastes good still!

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The "fruits" of my labor.  All day in the kitchen on my feet. 7 jars of apple sauce.  Delish!

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You can't really can stuff without this cool doohickey.  It is a jar lifter.  (It is a purchase I'm really glad I made a while ago!)

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Once the jars and lids boiled, I added the sauce, covered them up and boiled them again.  Magically the boiling process vacuum seals it all in!  So the sauce doesn't need to be refrigerated (in our new fridge that actually has room for it but alas I canned this stuff anyway!).

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Onto the next part of the process.  Canning!  This is something that Karla taught me a few years ago before she moved to New Mexico.  The first part is sterilization of the jars and lids.  You boil the crap out of them!

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The dishes started to pile!