Home grown baby food from grandparents' farm. That would be an awesome gift for the grandbabys eventualy. Just like you where talking about how your grandma made that special applesauce for you. It sounds like a lovely tradition to keep going.
This was really cool, Sarah! I've got one idea for snacking. You could dice up the dehydrated applesauce around 1/2 inch cubes and mix with fresh popcorn, then drizzle some caramel over the mixture, with just a small bit of salt. That would be absolutely an amazing snack, and yet, wouldn't be all that bad for you.
I just did a small batch when cleaning out my fridge. I had several apples and pears that needed to be used up. I didn't core anything. I just stuck it in the crock pot all day. I put it through a sieve and added honey and cinnamon. It was so good. We enjoyed it with granola too. It wasn't enough to put up but too much to throw away.
I’ve made applesauce many times. My mom loved to make it for us and her grandkids. If you cook it longer it will thicken up and become apple butter. Have a great day.
Good Morning Sarah! I love "being" in your kitchen with you while you preserve food!! Lots of what you do is what I do. Love seeing freeze drying videos. Always gives me ideas!!
Sarah, you are a delight and it doesn't matter what you prepare or share with us. Many thanks for all the effort, preparation, scripting, recording, editing and posting necessary to share your videos. Blessings and excellent health to you and Kevin for at least the next 30 years!!! Love from Post Falls, Idaho.
Just the mention of homemade applesauce brings back memories of my sweet mom. Every fall she would enlist all us kids to help in the basement as she canned up jars & jars of applesauce, peaches, and jam. We complained up a storm back then, but today I can & I love it. Thank you for sharing this adventure. BTW... That baby food is going to be spectacular!!! 🤎🌻
After looking for a number of years, our family Christmas present was a Harvest Right. We bought it through your affiliate link. So far so great. Currently freeze drying 4 gallons of sliced peaches frozen from our tree last year. They are so sweet and crisp. I needed room in the deep freezer, now they are on my shelf, in a snackable package.
I love that idea of getting it as a Christmas gift for the house. I can imagine my self making lunch healthy lunch for the kids now the school is getting so weird about the kids bringing their own lunch.
That tool you were using is called a bench scraper. In addition to the things you mentioned, it’s used often to transfer chopped vegetables or meat from the cutting board to the cooking vessel. I’d be lost without one in my kitchen and use it daily.
Sarah I love that you are unashamed to admit you have food in your refrigerator that is past it's prime. This happens to all of us! I too am unashamed of my good intentions that I didn't get to in a timely fashion and some of my best creations have come from things that are almost spoiled. Great video 😊
Thank you for sharing this video. I love your stories about, you and your family. I also love making applesauce, but I actually taught myself how to make it, I know it's not hard to do, but I was so proud of myself when I made it . Lots of Love. Please stay safe. God bless you and your family 👪
Missouri is a great state for apple picking. I used to prepare 2-3 bushels each fall. Apple butter, applesauce, frozen fried apple batches and frozen apple pie batches. Every time I finished, I would say I never wanted to see another apple, but every fall I did it because my family enjoyed them all winter. Pork chops with steamed apples, ham with steam apples, apple pies and bran apple muffins. It was worth it.
Just ordered our freeze dryer. Thank you for all of your wonderful information about it and the results. It is coming this week! I can’t wait! Keep the videos coming. I really enjoy all of them and the diversity! Bless you for what you do!
I just had a thought! Have you considered gathering maple sap and freeze drying it? Freeze it in your freezer on your trays first then pop it in your freeze dryer. That might be a great alternative to maple syrup. If you can crumble it into powder after freeze drying it you might wind up with awesome maple sap sugar. Who knows, it might catch on.
And if you are going to freeze dry baby food at least you know that there's not going to be any scary additives or preservatives in there, just GOOD HONEST WHOLESOME FOOD 💕
I love making applesauce. If I had the space, I'd buy a freeze dryer and make this and many other things with what I grow. Love your enthusiasm as you work and try new things 👍🏾😊
I have a freeze dryer and my question is: where are you storing all these Mylar bags and how are you tracking inventory and deciding what your goal will be for storage quantity. (I.e. how many dozens of freeze dried eggs? How many bags of FD chicken broth or beef broth? Etc ).
You know how to control your sound levels. Especially when you do your mixer. And the sound of apple slicing was so relaxing. You could do cooking ASMR videos.
Hi Sarah oh nothing like the good old fashion way well i learned this also from my grandparents good memories like yours an wow thats going be good now if you want just to use apples an keep your skins for making apple jellie which is wonderful try it youll love it thanks have a lovely day God Bless
I ordered my freeze dryer this week and I can hardly wait. As you were stirring that I thought of baby food too, we have a new one this month. I realized that all the FD things that have been powdered could be baby food with varying amounts of water. I’m so excited!
Patiently (maybe not so) waiting for the next rabbit video. I’m hoping to get mine in 2 weeks! Love the apple sauce! We canned a bushel worth and used the peels and cores to make jelly.
I want to get a freeze dryer! Seeing all the food that you preserved and even telling, showing us how it looks and tastes - best sells pitch ever! I just need to make room and save enough to buy one! Thank you for sharing!
Applesauce, yum! My little apple Frankentree (I grafted seven different varieties onto it a couple of years ago) had four lovely little apples last year, and they were delicious! Hoping for a bigger harvest this year so I can make applesauce.
I, too, was thinking this would be great baby food. You could puree any kind of food and freeze dry it for baby food! Doing it this way would allow any size portion-so no waste! Love and hugs.
My wife and I have been making applesauce for many years but we spiced it up a bit by adding those candy red hots and wow what a diffrence in the taste it is like eating Christmas.
Powdering the chunks would make a cool thickener for pies, crisps and fillings. Thanks, that was super fun. You need to be sponsored by the freeze dryer company. You are a great ambassador for them. You have put one on the top of my "When I get extra Money" list.
Just beginning our hobby farm on 16 Acres in Indiana. Put in 23 4x8 raised beds last spring, and will add another 17 this spring. Got 34 chickens (layers) in Sep so they just started laying now. Planting apple and fruit trees this spring. Freeze dryer is on the list of things to buy to preserve our harvest. Love your videos.
We bought 7 bu. of apples last fall. Yielded 200 quarts of apple sauce, 24 pints apple butter, 7 qts. pie filling. 14 qts. mincemeat and all the peels made into scrap jelly that is wonderful! I love my Squeezo! Literally no waste to speak of.
My dad and mom made applesauce, every fall. A good friend owned a orchard, I don’t know what transaction took place, for getting apples. My dad would go to a local creamery, and purchase 1/2 gallon milk cartons, which the applesauce was put into, and then, into a big chest freezer. It was so delicious, and a beautiful amber color. My dad always told us the color, came from leaving the peels on. The cooked apples were put through a ricer. It was a ton of work.
Long time viewer. I just watched your July 30 2022 (today) about the drought and your struggles this summer. Trying to help out by watching any videos I've missed. And, praying for your family
I made apple butter. I also made homemade apple cider vinegar. Until I began watching your channel along with a few others, I had NO idea how many ways there are to preserving food. Especially no to very little waste. I am also making my own vanilla extract (day 25) along with lemon, lime and orange extract. Decided to try out making my own cleaning liquid out of lemons. Then whatever is left, I put in compost. Endless possibilities to this lifestyle. I can not afford a freeze dryer, but I have learned so much. God bless and keep you and yours.
It's funny, because I just recently froze a big bunch of fall apples. I made them into fried apples, froze them in quart packages. I can make several types of desserts from these. We love them.
I just cut my apple to & cook in a crockpot. I leave skins on. I use immersion blender & it blends quite well. I never see any skin fragments. I do this for applesauce & apple butter. My favorite is peach/apple combo.
It would be great to have a feeeze dryer, but they're pretty expensive, so I'll have to save up for one. But I'm really looking forward to making my own mylar bag meals. I'll just dehydrate for now. Take care... much ❤
I have that same ladle that I bought at Walmart a few years ago. It was in the canning section, but I use it for stews and chili so that I can fill bowls fast without making a big mess. LOL
Excellent video. I appreciate these videos on freeze drying, as I have pulled the trigger on the HR dryer and awaiting delivery. I especially like the rehydration portion which tell me what is best to FD and what maybe isn't. Taste and texture are the most important aspects of the FD foods. If they don't taste well or the texture is different, the family probably won't eat them. Thanks.
When I make applesauce I prefer it without the peels. So I use a hand crank apple peeler/corer. Then I stick them in my steam juicer. I end up with applesauce and apple juice. Then some of my applesauce gets turned in to apple butter. I just really like using the steam juicer like that. Since I don't have a freeze dryer all of my products are canned.
Apple sauce, apple butter, apple jelly, apple leather.... so much more options...oh love the apple. Do you make vinegar? Or Ciders? I grew up in Iowa perhaps our lives path crossed. I’m glad you are in mine now via the posts you make. Thanks Sarah!
We make applesauce out of "windfalls" too; the apples which have fallen to the ground. We de-stem, quarter, cut off the bruised parts, and go from there. Some people use the bruised parts if they're fresh too but, they do change the flavor after about an hour post bruising.
Great video. I enjoy you and Kevin so much! What a great idea about starting to make baby food for your future grandbabies ☺️ Looking forward to anything you both share but am really looking forward to your next sit down with us answering questions and whatnot. I'm very curious what your plans are with the move you will be making in the future. I asked in the last video, and I know I'll see soon enough, but do you plan on taking the sprout House and the newer red barn with you when you move? Thank you ❤️ God bless you all
I made applesauce and apple cider vinegar just last night with our remaining apples. It's that time of year to start preserving what's left over to get ready for the new harvests. I like to make my apple cider vinegar in the colder months, no fruit flys.
Just watched the 3 animals you didn’t keep. You guys can always go into comedy! We laughed so hard. Gave us a break from the miserable news these days. Thank you
Home grown baby food from grandparents' farm. That would be an awesome gift for the grandbabys eventualy. Just like you where talking about how your grandma made that special applesauce for you. It sounds like a lovely tradition to keep going.
The no sugar applesauce is perfect for babies.
I agree what a lovely gift to give your daughters one day as they become mothers. 😊
I use my blender and skip the cooking. Saves nutrients lost in cooking process! Then freeze dry it! Tastes amazing!
No trouble with the flesh browning?
Almost bedtime for me here in Australia, but I'll stay up because I wanna see how the apple sauce turns out haha.
This was really cool, Sarah!
I've got one idea for snacking. You could dice up the dehydrated applesauce around 1/2 inch cubes and mix with fresh popcorn, then drizzle some caramel over the mixture, with just a small bit of salt. That would be absolutely an amazing snack, and yet, wouldn't be all that bad for you.
That sounds yummy!!
I just did a small batch when cleaning out my fridge. I had several apples and pears that needed to be used up. I didn't core anything. I just stuck it in the crock pot all day. I put it through a sieve and added honey and cinnamon. It was so good. We enjoyed it with granola too. It wasn't enough to put up but too much to throw away.
I’ve made applesauce many times. My mom loved to make it for us and her grandkids. If you cook it longer it will thicken up and become apple butter. Have a great day.
Our grannies would be proud!
Hello from Mid Wales UK 💜💜💜
Good Morning Sarah! I love "being" in your kitchen with you while you preserve food!! Lots of what you do is what I do. Love seeing freeze drying videos. Always gives me ideas!!
Sarah, you are a delight and it doesn't matter what you prepare or share with us. Many thanks for all the effort, preparation, scripting, recording, editing and posting necessary to share your videos. Blessings and excellent health to you and Kevin for at least the next 30 years!!! Love from Post Falls, Idaho.
You are the cutest! Got all emotional when you were talking about your grandmother. So sweet.🥰
Something remarkable between food and cooking and family memories.
Yummy looking 😋 and great way to preserve food.
Just the mention of homemade applesauce brings back memories of my sweet mom. Every fall she would enlist all us kids to help in the basement as she canned up jars & jars of applesauce, peaches, and jam. We complained up a storm back then, but today I can & I love it. Thank you for sharing this adventure. BTW... That baby food is going to be spectacular!!! 🤎🌻
After looking for a number of years, our family Christmas present was a Harvest Right. We bought it through your affiliate link. So far so great. Currently freeze drying 4 gallons of sliced peaches frozen from our tree last year. They are so sweet and crisp. I needed room in the deep freezer, now they are on my shelf, in a snackable package.
I love that idea of getting it as a Christmas gift for the house.
I can imagine my self making lunch healthy lunch for the kids now the school is getting so weird about the kids bringing their own lunch.
Sarah , those apples look mighty fine and crispy...Just love apple sauce. Thank you for such a relaxing video this fine day.
That tool you were using is called a bench scraper. In addition to the things you mentioned, it’s used often to transfer chopped vegetables or meat from the cutting board to the cooking vessel. I’d be lost without one in my kitchen and use it daily.
Thanks for the great video . We are getting ready to purchase a freeze dryer and I am trying to learn all I can about them .
Sarah I love that you are unashamed to admit you have food in your refrigerator that is past it's prime. This happens to all of us! I too am unashamed of my good intentions that I didn't get to in a timely fashion and some of my best creations have come from things that are almost spoiled. Great video 😊
I love myHarvest Right! So far I have done lemon slices and shredded cheese! Next to do some meat from the freezer! Think I will start with hamburger.
Good morning!🌞
Good morning and thank you for explaining another use for a freeze dryer. On the fence as to whether to purchase or not.
We have been saving up for a freeze dryer and we are almost ready can't wait 😀 I'll let you know soon
Nice video.watching from Nigeria 🇳🇬
Wow, would never thought to freeze dry applesauce. How cool
Buying a Medium through your link! Love watching you guys! Hope the kickback is decent!!
Thank you for sharing this video. I love your stories about, you and your family. I also love making applesauce, but I actually taught myself how to make it, I know it's not hard to do, but I was so proud of myself when I made it . Lots of Love. Please stay safe. God bless you and your family 👪
Anything done by your hands is love. 😋
That really made my mouth water. It looks delicious. I think it would make a perfect snack too. It always amazes me how it turns out.
That is soooo cool! My second grandbaby 💜🐣 is due yesterday!, so I better get on that freeze drying!! What a great product and video.
Missouri is a great state for apple picking. I used to prepare 2-3 bushels each fall. Apple butter, applesauce, frozen fried apple batches and frozen apple pie batches. Every time I finished, I would say I never wanted to see another apple, but every fall I did it because my family enjoyed them all winter. Pork chops with steamed apples, ham with steam apples, apple pies and bran apple muffins. It was worth it.
Great Idea Sarah ‼️
Love my freeze dryer.. looking forward to pear butter this year.
Just ordered our freeze dryer. Thank you for all of your wonderful information about it and the results. It is coming this week! I can’t wait! Keep the videos coming. I really enjoy all of them and the diversity! Bless you for what you do!
I just had a thought! Have you considered gathering maple sap and freeze drying it? Freeze it in your freezer on your trays first then pop it in your freeze dryer. That might be a great alternative to maple syrup. If you can crumble it into powder after freeze drying it you might wind up with awesome maple sap sugar. Who knows, it might catch on.
What an amazing thing! You two think up some awesome ways to store your food & this was super great. Thank you.
And if you are going to freeze dry baby food at least you know that there's not going to be any scary additives or preservatives in there, just GOOD HONEST WHOLESOME FOOD 💕
Good morning
I just finished making sauce with the apples I picked in late September. The sauce is soo good!!!
That’s amazing and you could use any vegetables and fruit for making baby’s food, how more organic can you get, thanks Sarah ❤️🙏👍
I love making applesauce. If I had the space, I'd buy a freeze dryer and make this and many other things with what I grow. Love your enthusiasm as you work and try new things 👍🏾😊
I have a freeze dryer and my question is: where are you storing all these Mylar bags and how are you tracking inventory and deciding what your goal will be for storage quantity. (I.e. how many dozens of freeze dried eggs? How many bags of FD chicken broth or beef broth? Etc ).
You know how to control your sound levels. Especially when you do your mixer. And the sound of apple slicing was so relaxing. You could do cooking ASMR videos.
The little cutter tool is also available at Dollar Tree.
Great inspiration for us all. Thank you and God bless.
Hello Sarah. God bless you for taking the time, always, to teach us helpful lessons. Be well.
Those apples are in pretty good shape for 5 months old! I love applesauce 😋
Hi Sarah oh nothing like the good old fashion way well i learned this also from my grandparents good memories like yours an wow thats going be good now if you want just to use apples an keep your skins for making apple jellie which is wonderful try it youll love it thanks have a lovely day God Bless
I ordered my freeze dryer this week and I can hardly wait. As you were stirring that I thought of baby food too, we have a new one this month. I realized that all the FD things that have been powdered could be baby food with varying amounts of water. I’m so excited!
We did this as a kid n the fall all day. S much work but so fun. There were so many so many apple trees and I love apples. Makes me homesick
Those freeze dryers are amazing. 👍🏻🙏🏻❤️
Patiently (maybe not so) waiting for the next rabbit video. I’m hoping to get mine in 2 weeks! Love the apple sauce! We canned a bushel worth and used the peels and cores to make jelly.
Apple slices in the freeze dryer make the most wonderful apple chips. They are delicious!
I want to get a freeze dryer! Seeing all the food that you preserved and even telling, showing us how it looks and tastes - best sells pitch ever! I just need to make room and save enough to buy one! Thank you for sharing!
I guess it could be made into apple butter also? Looks really good ! Thanks for the video👍
Applesauce, yum! My little apple Frankentree (I grafted seven different varieties onto it a couple of years ago) had four lovely little apples last year, and they were delicious! Hoping for a bigger harvest this year so I can make applesauce.
I’ve just got to get one of those. I love these videos Sara and Kevin you guys help me be a better person. God bless
Such a great video. Love you all. Hugs Sarah❤️
I am so impressed with the resiliency of apples! 5 months.... wow, that is awesome.
I love making Apple Butter. Freeze dryer would be great too have for sure. Apple sauce sounds yummy freeze dried.
I, too, was thinking this would be great baby food. You could puree any kind of food and freeze dry it for baby food! Doing it this way would allow any size portion-so no waste! Love and hugs.
My wife and I have been making applesauce for many years but we spiced it up a bit by adding those candy red hots and wow what a diffrence in the taste it is like eating Christmas.
I really appreciate how you try to teach us (your viewers) something. I look forward to your videos. Bless you and your family.
Grandmother's apple butter was my favorite. No idea how she made it. Better than store bought. (Which I like also)
Fantastic looks delicious. I love applesauce wish I had the freezer dryer but I can what I have.
Powdering the chunks would make a cool thickener for pies, crisps and fillings. Thanks, that was super fun. You need to be sponsored by the freeze dryer company. You are a great ambassador for them. You have put one on the top of my "When I get extra Money" list.
Just beginning our hobby farm on 16 Acres in Indiana. Put in 23 4x8 raised beds last spring, and will add another 17 this spring. Got 34 chickens (layers) in Sep so they just started laying now. Planting apple and fruit trees this spring. Freeze dryer is on the list of things to buy to preserve our harvest. Love your videos.
We bought 7 bu. of apples last fall. Yielded 200 quarts of apple sauce, 24 pints apple butter, 7 qts. pie filling. 14 qts. mincemeat and all the peels made into scrap jelly that is wonderful! I love my Squeezo! Literally no waste to speak of.
My dad and mom made applesauce, every fall. A good friend owned a orchard, I don’t know what transaction took place, for getting apples. My dad would go to a local creamery, and purchase 1/2 gallon milk cartons, which the applesauce was put into, and then, into a big chest freezer. It was so delicious, and a beautiful amber color. My dad always told us the color, came from leaving the peels on. The cooked apples were put through a ricer. It was a ton of work.
Pretty clever of your father to buy those cartons for storing in the freezer!
G👀D Morning!
Leaving out the added sugar was a wise choice. Sweet sugary things do not freeze dry well.
Thanks for the video! Blessings~
I so look forward to ur videos every week. Ty
Those are huge apples! ❤️👍🌹👏🥰🙏🤷🏻♀️🥳💐
Also, when you keep the skins on it gives the applesauce a nice color.
Long time viewer. I just watched your July 30 2022 (today) about the drought and your struggles this summer. Trying to help out by watching any videos I've missed. And, praying for your family
Very cool Sarah! This will taste very good months and years down the road. God bless!
This is a great idea! I love your creative ways to preserve food. It is fun to see all that you do with your freeze dryer.
Great video!Thanks for sharing, love it
Excellent video, thanks for sharing!
I made apple butter. I also made homemade apple cider vinegar. Until I began watching your channel along with a few others, I had NO idea how many ways there are to preserving food. Especially no to very little waste. I am also making my own vanilla extract (day 25) along with lemon, lime and orange extract. Decided to try out making my own cleaning liquid out of lemons. Then whatever is left, I put in compost. Endless possibilities to this lifestyle. I can not afford a freeze dryer, but I have learned so much. God bless and keep you and yours.
I didn’t see my grandma much either. I grew up in Wisconsin also and my grandma lived in Iowa. My father grew up in Iowa
I love applesauce, thanks for sharing.
What a great idea for baby food. I made my baby food back in the 90s but froze it. Love the freeze dryer!!!
That’s awesome the freeze dried apple sauce,
This sure changes the way we preserve! I dehydrate, can, freeze, and ferment but just can't swing the cost of a freeze dryer YET!
It's funny, because I just recently froze a big bunch of fall apples. I made them into fried apples, froze them in quart packages. I can make several types of desserts from these. We love them.
I just cut my apple to & cook in a crockpot. I leave skins on. I use immersion blender & it blends quite well. I never see any skin fragments. I do this for applesauce & apple butter. My favorite is peach/apple combo.
It would be great to have a feeeze dryer, but they're pretty expensive, so I'll have to save up for one. But I'm really looking forward to making my own mylar bag meals. I'll just dehydrate for now. Take care... much ❤
Great video Sarah!! I hope you all have a fantastic weekend and God bless
I have that same ladle that I bought at Walmart a few years ago. It was in the canning section, but I use it for stews and chili so that I can fill bowls fast without making a big mess. LOL
Excellent video. I appreciate these videos on freeze drying, as I have pulled the trigger on the HR dryer and awaiting delivery. I especially like the rehydration portion which tell me what is best to FD and what maybe isn't. Taste and texture are the most important aspects of the FD foods. If they don't taste well or the texture is different, the family probably won't eat them. Thanks.
Another great video...thanks!!
When I make applesauce I prefer it without the peels.
So I use a hand crank apple peeler/corer.
Then I stick them in my steam juicer.
I end up with applesauce and apple juice.
Then some of my applesauce gets turned in to apple butter.
I just really like using the steam juicer like that.
Since I don't have a freeze dryer all of my products are canned.
Apple sauce, apple butter, apple jelly, apple leather.... so much more options...oh love the apple. Do you make vinegar? Or Ciders? I grew up in Iowa perhaps our lives path crossed. I’m glad you are in mine now via the posts you make. Thanks Sarah!
We make applesauce out of "windfalls" too; the apples which have fallen to the ground. We de-stem, quarter, cut off the bruised parts, and go from there. Some people use the bruised parts if they're fresh too but, they do change the flavor after about an hour post bruising.
We do apple sauce as well as apple butter🤤. Thanks for sharing. God bless
Great video. I enjoy you and Kevin so much! What a great idea about starting to make baby food for your future grandbabies ☺️ Looking forward to anything you both share but am really looking forward to your next sit down with us answering questions and whatnot. I'm very curious what your plans are with the move you will be making in the future. I asked in the last video, and I know I'll see soon enough, but do you plan on taking the sprout House and the newer red barn with you when you move? Thank you ❤️
God bless you all
I freeze dried lots of apple sauce last yawed its delicious
Oh. I so wisch I had one of theese freezedryers. My highest Dreams this year.
I always make my applesause like you ďid today without sugar.
I think I would have eaten all the freeze dry apple sauce like that....so crunchy. Great job Sarah, thanks for sharing!🤗
I made applesauce and apple cider vinegar just last night with our remaining apples. It's that time of year to start preserving what's left over to get ready for the new harvests. I like to make my apple cider vinegar in the colder months, no fruit flys.
Just watched the 3 animals you didn’t keep. You guys can always go into comedy! We laughed so hard. Gave us a break from the miserable news these days. Thank you