Well-Seasoned Cookbook

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Canned Apple Pie Filling

From Mom’s Green Folder

Ingredients:

28 cups apples, peeled and sliced

4 1/2 cups sugar

1 cup cornstarch

2 tsp. cinnamon

1/4 tsp. nutmeg

1 tsp. salt

10 cups water

3 Tbsp. lemon juice

Directions:

Pack apple slices tightly in quart jars. Make a syrup from sugar, cornstarch, cinnamon, nutmeg, salt and water. Cook and stir until thick and bubbly. Add lemon juice, seal and process jars in water bath for 20 minutes.

Makes 7 quarts of filling.

Note: You can also dry pack the apple pie filling; the juices from the apples will be all you need during the canning process.