What a night! Up till the wee hours boiling down apples to make and can golden sauce and ruddy butter. Added just a splash of pinot grigio, a dusting of cinnamon and a couple of pinches of cloves, and had the pots bubbling for hours. Nothing like putting up sparkling jars of summer. Most of the apples came from volunteer trees across the farm. We never spray or dust with any types of herbicides or pesticides. Yumm.

Lids and bands, jar lifter, magnet to lift lids from hot water, and digital timer

Cores and scraps for my apple-loving cows and chickens

Bubbling apple sauce ready to can

Apple sauce and apple butter – edible jewels for the winter.

Wet summer made for great wild-apple butter