Sweet bottled apple pie filling is the perfect treat for a pie or a crisp.

Bring fall flavors right to your dinner table.

Fall is here and with it comes an abundance of harvest. This year our home was overflowing with apples. So I enlisted my mom to teach me how to bottle apples. I have never needed to do my own but have always enjoyed the fruits of her labors. This will be a tradition we do for years to come!

The first thing you need are apples. We have a tree at our cabin and ended up with boxes and boxes of apples. So that was not a problem. The next item is a must have! After making 6 batches of apple pie filling I bought my own apple cutter. I can’t imagine making anything apple without one!

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Sweet Bottled Apple Pie Filling

Sweet bottled apple pie filling is the perfect treat for a pie or a crisp.

Prep Time

25 minutes

Cook Time

20 minutes

Servings

quart jars

Ingredients

• 4 1/2 cups sugar
• 1 cup cornstarch
• 2 teaspoons cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoons nutmeg
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 10 cups water
• 3 tablespoons lemon juice
• 2-3 drops yellow food coloring
• 6 pounds apples peeled and sliced

Prep Time 25 minutes Cook Time 20 minutes Servings quart jars Ingredients 4 1/2 cups sugar 1 cup cornstarch 2 teaspoons cinnamon 1/2 teaspoons nutmeg 1 teaspoon salt 10 cups water 3 tablespoons lemon juice 2-3 drops yellow food coloring 6 pounds apples peeled and sliced

Instructions

1. Mix the sugar, cornstarch, cinnamon, nutmeg and salt together in a large stock pot. Then stir in the water. Cook and stir until thick.
2. Add lemon juice, food coloring and peeled/sliced apples. Put into cooked mixture. Heat thoroughly.
3. Pack into sterilized hot quart jars, leaving 1 inch of head space.
4. Put into hot water bath and process for 20 minutes.

Recipe Notes

One quart makes a 9 inch pie. To make pie, dot filling with butter and bake at 400 degrees for 50 minutes.

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If you have bottled peaches or jam, you know that the process is very time consuming but this recipe so simple! We literally had 7 jars done in an hour. We had three people working on it so we just kept making batches after batches. Everyone walked home with 14 jars.

The perfect treat for a pie or a crisp.

This is the perfect thing to add to a pie crust or the oatmeal mixture of a crisp. We love gifting a jar with a cute pie plate. Whatever you do, you will never go back. I loved making memories in the kitchen with my mom and sister in law. Even the kids jumped in to help core and wash the apples.

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