Making the BEST Apple Preserves in Appalachia
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- Опубліковано 23 сер 2022
- We love apple preserves! So good to eat as a side dish or on biscuits, but my favorite way to use them is as fried pie filling. The recipe is an old one passed down in the mountains of Appalachia.
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I finally purchased your cookbook. I’m really excited to give some of your recipes a try. 👩🏻🍳
I’m going to purchase your cookbook this weekend thank you so much hugs patsy
I was speaking of the John Parris book but I would love to have your cookbook as well. ;)
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Congratulations on your eCookbook!! I checked the link and it says they are sold out! I prefer a regular book because it's easier for me. If I purchase an ebook could I print it out from the download? Thanks, Tipper!
This is very similar to the way I learned to make apple and pear preserves from watching my granny so many, many years ago. She layered her apples and sugar straight into the big enamel ware kettle she used for cooking them, then covered them overnight. Next morning she gave them a good stir, then brought them to a simmer and slow simmered them for hours until the fruit slices were clear and the syrup had cooked down to a honey like consistency. Then they went into the jars and she flipped them bottoms up to cool. No water bathing. I know that's frowned up by the experts these days, but she raised 4 children and 4 grandchildren and we all survived without getting food poisoning. ;)
Putting sugar on fruit over night was called “toughing the fruit” meaning this caused the fruit to get tough and hold their shape during the cooking process. We did this with apples and pears before making preserves.
Biscuits, cooked apples and fried potatoes! It IS a feast! My Mother-in-Law made pink applesauce every fall. We used either Jonathan or McIntosh apples for the natural pink color. Such a treat all winter long! 👍🏻😃
Now I'm really hungry!!
Sounds like a feast 😀
I used Jonathan's for pink applesauce that I would give as gifts. 😊
Pink applesauce brings back childhood memories, but we made ours pink by heating the applesauce and adding a few cinnamon hearts candies.
I have a bunch of apples I just picked yesterday. I want to can em but I wondered if you can make pie from these?
With each of these storing of vegetables, fruits, jams, jellies, even meats, etc, I picture your lovely family enjoying them all winter this year. Apple Cider Vinegar, if you use it often enough is worth the little time and practically no money involved. It is a most healthy addition to one's diet for health or even weight loss. I love it. There's a good recipe on making ACV on Off grid with Doug and Stacy.
Oh yes . My Grandma was from KY. We would go to see my Grandparents. And one of my childhood memories was waking up to the best fried Apples, homemade biscuits, taters, saus, ham, eggs with the ham juices from frying would be poured over the eggs. Grandma would sop it up with a biscuit. Miss they so much. Have a wonderful Evening you and your family.
Sounds like such good eating 😀
That sounds like my grandma as well, she was a fantastic cook. She was from pikeville KY. I miss her so very much and watching this channel reminds me so much of her. So comforting.❤️
Your apples come in sooner than ours do here in southern Ontario -- we look for new crop closer to the end of September. In Canada we celebrate Thanksgiving on the second Monday of October and many families have a tradition of visiting a pick-your-own apple farm the week before then. Fresh as can be!
Hi Tipper watched you today ... like l do most days. I am wondering could you make a cook book on the canning and also the recipes you show us. I would love to buy one for sure. Also could you show us how you make apple butter. I grew up on it. Please! Well thank you for your enjoyable videos. Blessings 🙏
My father used to put up pear preserves. We ate them on toast for breakfast.
Pear butter is to die for
Thank you Tipper for sharing.
I am definitely going to do this.
Going to do apples, pears and peaches.
Love y'all. Stay safe. God bless
You are so welcome 😀
I usually think of it like this: juice-jelly, pulp-jam, chunks-preserves. That keeps it nice and straight in my mind anyways lol
When my daughter was young I taught her to make apple butter. She took to it like a duck takes to water & it's become her traditional canning job. Every couple of years she'll get her apples & can up the apple butter. I've never had apple butter with peanut butter, but that sounds marvelous & I plan to try it. Thank you for your videos. God bless.
That is so wonderful 😀
thats why is called Apple-lachia. It works well with pears, we had about a dozen pear trees when I was a kid and always had pear preserves. My grandma would put gelatin in the juice so you got slices of pear with pear jelly.
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As I am watching all of your preserving food videos lately, I can’t help thinking about how much God loves us! He has blessed us so much with all the wonderful tasting food He has given us! Each and everyone of them. And to think, there is even so much more varieties of food that we Americans do not even know about - food in other countries, and food that was around thousands of years ago that we have no clue about. I find anything about growing and preserving all the variety of foods fascinating! Your apples look so delicious, and easy. And yes, I could see using pears or peaches instead of apples, too. This morning I had some wonderful blueberry preserves on pancakes for breakfast. A friend brought them to me from her trip to Maine earlier this month. They were so good with the butter on the pancakes. Your apples look like they would be good on waffles or pancakes, also. My parents had some kind of a variety of a cooking/pie apple tree since I was 5. It wasn’t a Granny Smith apple, as it was red, but it was so much tarter than a Granny Smith - oh, so good! It produced apples forever. Then one day my brother ran into it with the lawn mower, and it fell over. The whole inside of the trunk was empty! It’s amazing it never had fallen over before that! Thank you for this wonderful video!!
Donna. : )
Thank you Donna! You are so right 😀 I like thinking about that too. They would be great over waffles and pancakes 😀
My absolute favorite jelly/jam is Apple Butter or pumpkin butter. I eat it almost every morning on sourdough toast. I have made peach butter too and it’s delicious as well. Your jars of apples are beautiful! 🍎
Thank you Rhonda 😀
Wow, Tipper, you and Corie have been really busy and productive! These are such great skills to pass on to your children!
I wasn't hungry until I watched this video!
😀 Thank you Roland. We have enjoyed every minute of it!!
Tipper how old are your girls? I’ve got a light haired one and a dark haired twin too. One loves being in the kitchen the other only shows up to eat! LOL! I very much enjoy you sharing your love for all things Appalachia. Greetings from Harrodsburg KY!
@@janawood7365 Sounds like mine! They will be 26 soon 😀
You have made beautiful preserves ! I was thinking big fluffy pancakes would pair well with the apples. Everything you make looks delicious, yum. I so enjoy all your observations, stories, local custom and folklore that goes into your videos.
Thank you so much!
Thank you 🍎🍎
We get them around September 3... that’s usually when orchard’s open up for pick your own... later the prepackaged ones are from clearing the leftover ones...
I preserve apples in the freezer. My mom was amazed the first time I showed her how to do them. I peel and slice the apples and then put them straight into a freezer bag and straight into the freezer. I cook them in the microwave (until done). I can use them for apple pies, fried pies, baked pies, and etc. I mostly zap them, add some sugar, and cinnamon when I have 1 to 2 minutes left to cook them and we eat them as "baked apples".
Thanks for the tip Jason 😀
I am a brazilian lady who loves to cook.
My grandmother made pear, apple, quince, and peaches candy this way.
Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for sharing 😀
@@CelebratingAppalachia I love your channel.
Many dishes that you cook are common to us here in the South of Brazil.
Thank you for sharing.
Thank you Tipper for reminding me of what my moma would do when 🍎 and fruit was ripe, 60 years ago in Eastern Kentucky.
😀 You are welcome. Love that she used the same method 😀
@@CelebratingAppalachia 👌👍🙏
them jars of apples sure look yummy. ya'll sure have been working hard puttin' up some awesome food for the winter.
😀 Thank you
My parents were from Western Pa., and my mother canned apples almost the same way. She worked so I had to pick the tree and peal them before she got home. I would always have a couple of dish pans full ready for her with sugar and lemon juice sprinkled on them. After supper she would bring them to a boil with a light sugar syrup and pack them in hot jars. Then into the water bath. She made pies out of them all winter and until the next apple season.
Yummm.... I can imagine these over some vanilla ice cream, sprinkled with cinnamon and/or apple pie spice and of course, your homemade friend pies! Thanks for sharing!
Yummy 😀
I wish this video went up a few days ago! I just made 16 pints of apple sauce. I will also be making freezer apple pie filling. I’ve never had canned apples before. I don’t think I’ve ever seen them in my part of Canada.
My grandma always fried apples in a iron skillet they were very good
Hang on to that book!! I looked it up and it sells for $100-200. I'll have to keep an eye out for it in the thrift stores. Loved this recipe! Can't wait to try it this year. :)
I love watching your canning videos and listening to your stories. Have you ever done a pantry tour?
Thank you!! I haven't ever done one 😀
@@CelebratingAppalachia You totally should!
I do miss Mom and Grandma Apple preserves. When i was real young my great grandmother made the best apple pie. People from miles away would put in orders for her pies. She would make them year around 7 days a week. I really miss those days. I can just imagine the smell in that house the day of this video. YUM!
Yum! I bet her pie was wonderful 😀
I love the recipes you share. They all look so yummy!
On a side note, I could listen to you talk all day long. You’ve got a great voice & accent.
Thank you so much for the kind words 😀
In the past 3 years, I have grown to love apples!
Here in Minnesota we can apples almost the same way, usually do a batch thats not as sweet too for more savory dishes. Being German, Dutch and Scandinavian apples are often used in saurkraut, cabbage, and different sauces mostly with pork. If you really want to try something good make some braised red cabbage with apple in it, you will wonder why it wasnt saved for dessert.
Recipe for braised red cabbage w/apple please 🥺 , thank you 💕
@@myrthagunter4141 fry thinly sliced small onion til translucent, add head cabbage (1lb), 1 peeled and grated apple, 1.5 cup water, half cup apple cider vinegar, half cup sugar, salt, pepper, and caraway seed. Cover and cook down stirring occasionally, add water if needed, takes about 45min to 1.5 hours, you can also dust with a little flour and stir it in the boil at the end. My Grandma called this blaukraut, goes very good with pork chops or a pork roast.
@@jeremyyff3632 Thank you so much for taking the time to do this . Husband said that he has heard of this recipe. 😊
I LOVE good fresh apples from the mountains. There’s a place called Granddaddies apple orchard, It’s in Hendersonville North Carolina. My favorite apple is the stamen wine-sapp. Love to bit into them, tasting the right kind of sweet/tartness, and the juice that you need a napkin for when runs tries to down your chin. Normally we come up about early to mid- October, when hopefully the air is cool and crisp. That’s what makes fall my favorite season.
I'm moving in with you, Tipper! I know that I'll always eat well!
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Tipper, I grew up in a small apple orchard in N.H., and this video gives me HAPPY memories of my grammie working with apples. Her apple bitter was soo good. And the pie filling, like this video, was wonderful. Thank you for all the great memories !!!
My grandma would always make us fried apple pies 😋 in Tennessee, here in Michigan we go to the orchard pick or buy some my mom in law makes the best apple pie and sauce.☺️☺️
These jars make great holiday gifts & thank-yous for teachers.
Reasonable cost, esp. if you have access to apple trees for free.
Great video -
Once we had an ornamental apple tree that was grown strictly for the beautiful flowers it had each year. One year I really looked at it and saw it had tiny apples growing where the blooms had been. I decided to pick them and experiment by making jelly. I had to cook them whole because they were so small. After I drained them thru cheesecloth I decided to add cinnamon with the sugar. Didn't need pectin because they had plenty of natural pectin, I could tell by how tart the original juice was. Anyway I made the jelly and it was beautiful! Pretty pink color and the cinnamon made it taste like apple pie! Just an idea if anyone thinks they want to try it!! My family loved it!
I wonder if these are what we call crab apples here in the UK. They make wonderful jellies but are too hard and sour to be eaten from the tree. They also make good apple brandy (mixed with sugar, brandy and a touch of vanilla, kept in a dark place, shaken regularly and brought out as a Christmas treat).
Granny dried apples a lot. she made a lot of stack cakes and ,I loved them, I thought she made them specially for me! And I loved her ganger, bread, it was spicy! She said she poured the ginger to it and loaded it with black pepper. It was so good.
It all sounds wonderful 😀
I was telling Justro over at Metcalf Mills about this recipe using the pears and that the sitting out overnight was an important step because the pears oxidized and turned a rosy pink color.
I never get tired of watching your videos. I love that I never know what to expect! The content never tires me. Your time is much appreciated! How long can you keep them on shelf? Thank you Tipper😊🇨🇦
Thank you Gary-you are so kind! We appreciate you 😀 They will last for several years.
Nothing better than a fried apple pie and a glass of milk! I have canned apple butter but not canned apples like this.
Thank you so much for sharing. Sincerely!
Pear preserves are my absolute favorite!
I wish I had found a lot of these recipes before I got to be 90 years old. I have been making plum jelly since 1957. The last several years I have made strawberry, peach, blackberry, blueberry. I still love to make it but just can’t get around like I used to.
I love to watch all of your programs. I also watch the Pressley girls. I love when they talk about the Lord
Enjoyed this ! Brought back memories of my mama canning pear and apple preserves....they were so good on biscuits, I even like them on peanut butter sandwiches...i love apple butter too , so good with peanut butter on sandwich....thanks tipper ! Appreciate y'all.....God bless...🙏❤
Mommy canned a lot of apples and "fruit". Sometimes she sweetened the "fruit" before she canned it depending on how sweet the apples were, I guess. I can't remember whether the canned apples were sweetened as well.
Grammaw had a huge June apple tree that supplied enough for her, the cows that grazed under it and the yeller jackets. Mommy canned some of those too. We had 13 apple trees that I remember, several varieties. So apples were certainly a large part of what we ate.
Those trees sound wonderful Papaw 😀
Might try apples and sausage. So delicious. Of course as you mentioned, apples and pork chops. Making me hungry!
My grandmother had an apple tree called World’s Best. She dried the apples and canned them and we had “fruit” and biscuits for breakfast. Have never had anything to compare. Thanks for this video mentioning “fruit”.
Thanks again Tipper for another great video 👍
Glad you enjoyed it 😀
It's been a canning week this past few days...I usually freeze sugared apples for pie for the winter whenever my "diabetic" husband whines for one...lol....I am limited on freezer space so will definitely be doing this! Thanks so much!
Looks delicious. Thanks Tipper. My pears will be coming in soon, too.
So glad I found you. I love watching y’all.
Thanks so much 😀
Apples are very popular in WV too. The first tree of golden delicious apples was grown on the Mullins' family farm in Clay County, WV. A lot of varieties of apples are grown successfully here. My Maw Maw Madeline had a couple of apple trees in her yard and she made the most delicious apple jelly from the fruit.
I am most definitely gonna make canned apple preserves! Thanks for sharing the recipe!
Card was nice, those viola tomatoes are a cross between Tommy toe and a larger heirloom tomato, about twice the size of a Tommy toe, but still small. Those peppers are the sweetest ive ever tried, cooked down with a sweet onion, a little browned, is hard to beat.
I made pears preserves. About the same way. But to get the syrup right they cook for 2&1/2 hours. Makes amazing syrup and preserves.
You can use the apples in cinnamon rolls or cinnamon bread. Monkey bread too♡
My dad made pear preserves until he died. I loved them on a hot buttered biscuit.
Enjoyed watching you share your process the apple preserves…yummy 🤗
I've had the same experience with apple and pear trees. Sometimes they won't bloom at all in the Spring and you get nothing. I read somewhere they apples and pears will sometimes skip flowering for a year or two. I've got an Ayers pear tree that went 3 years without flowering. I was going to take it out this Spring and replace it with something else, but it finally bloomed again and now has a lot of nice pears on it again.
Always a pleasure to see what you are up to. This is truly a keeper! Thank you!😊
My mom and I have made apple jelly using the peels of the apples. Mine turns red and Mom's would turn pink. I think I let mine boil longer and it got a darker colour. I love apple jelly. You sure peeled a lot of apples in such a short time. You are so fast. WOW. It's wonderful that you can speed up the video. I love your kitchen. I recently moved to a smaller apartment and I hate the kitchen it is a Galley kitchen and that to me is for a ship not for an apartment. You could use the leftover juice to make pancakes with apple toppings no maple sugar. WOW, that sounds good even if I do say so myself. Thank you, Mame, I loved this video as I love all of your videos. You are such a warm personality. God Bless and keep your family Safe and well. What about Apple Bread Pudding? I am sure you could do it. You seem to be a wonderful cook.
Listened to you while frying zucchini, pepper & onions for dinner, earlier. Now, I'm suffering for an apple dessert! 🤤
😀 Thank you for listening! That sounds like a great meal!
@@CelebratingAppalachia The smell of cooking onions can bring anyone to the table. I'm excited for your next cookbook release!
Hello Tipper, My grandma would always have cooked apples for breakfast
And if any was left over we would eat them throughout the day.
Thank you for keeping the way of life alive. .
I got my cookbooks and I am not disappointed.. Thank you again. God bless 🇺🇸❤️🌹
So glad you like the book! Thank you 😀
They look so delicious! Thank you for sharing Tipper.
Remembering my grandmother she came from southern Illinois and learned from her mother she used pears .Did not last long around me grandma lived 8 houses away.Gradma also made grape jelly like you did .She was cooking it on the stove some how she hit the pan and on the floor it went took many years to get rid of the purple floor.I love watching your family .Helps me remember the good times.
So glad you enjoy our videos! Love the purple floor story 😀 Although I'm sure she hated to drop the pan.
A word you say often is how I feel watching your video’s, I truly feel wonderfully blessed! My word of the day is Wonderful!
Thank you Tipper.🙏
Definitely doing this with some of our apples this year, thanks for sharing.
I didn't know that it's so easy to can apples, Thanks GM
I love watching your videos especially when you share your recipes! Thank you so much! ❤️
I really miss my apple trees. Your apples look just beautiful🥰. I would always make fried pies, applesauce and apple butter. I would also make apple dumplings …Yummy
Yay!! All the preserves, jams, etc 🍎🍏🥖🥐🍞🥞
I remember sitting under shade tree peeling and cutting up apples All Day at Grannies,,that was after picking a truckload from Great Uncles orchard. Apple Dapple Cake🌹memories. I was the applesauce grinding grandson for years until more cuzinz grew up. oldest of 60+cuzinz since 1959. GOD BLESS😇
I canned this last fall from apples from a neighbor's tree. I used some to make this easy dump dessert using the apples in a 9x13 dish, then sprinkle soft caramels over that, cover with a dry yellow cake mix and top with a stick of butter cut into about 12 pats. Very good for how easy. I also used extra syrup for pancakes and french toast and that was also very good especially with a little cinnamon.
Hope to try this. Thank you for sharing.
Hi Mrs. Pressley! This is a perfect starter canning project when teaching youngins. Fried apples were obligatory, for the Sunday breakfast table, when I was growing up. Lovely content, thanks!
Thank you 😀
Thank you for sharing your canning with us, I'll bet the apples are delicious! 🌷
I will be making this soon .I have that cook book but never used this recipe .Love your show
This will definitely be a good for us to make. I will use the peels for my fruit syrup recipe. Thanks again.
Canning is so therapeutic. Even watching you it sooths my soul. Thank you so much for sharing.
My Nana always made pear preserves. Similar recipe, but she added a bit of fresh lemon juice and always put 3-4 red hot candies in the top of each jar. Made the prettiest preserves.
I love listening to all of your stories. You tell them so well!
Thank you so much!
Beautifully done ,!!! Thanks for sharing
Beautiful apple jars.
Last year I made sweet potato and apple butter. Everyone loved it. A friend of ours has peach and apple trees and he just lets us pick what we want.
That sounds wonderful 😀
I had a bushel of pears needing worked. So I did a batch of pears in this method. 9 pints are in the canner right this minute! I tasted them when they were resting, before filling the jars, Yum!
That is great 😀
I make them all the time and some times I'll add a little cinnamon in a batch.They are good on top of pancakes to in hot oatmeal, cream of wheat,you can enjoy them so many different ways..
Thank you so much for posting this! My mom made applesauce, and canned pear halves with a syrup but she hadn't made apple preserve. We made apple jelly too. We kids loved apples so much we'd eat the peelings and my mom would have to stop us after a while. I appreciate that this recipe makes its own juice overnight instead of having to make a syrup to pour over. Our apple tree doesn't grow enough apples yet, but we have an orchard close by that we go pick apples in the fall. I'll be making this apple preserve this fall!
Thanks for sharing this video! Im gonna make my own preserves following you step by step since my apple are just about ready
One of your best videos. Love the time lapse intro. Thank you.
So glad you enjoyed it 😀
I can't wait to try this.
Sounds wonderful! Makes me want to take a road trip to your mountains to buy some apples to can.
Thank you so much for all the canning videos this year!! I draw inspiration from you and love seeing the old recipes. Keep ‘em a coming!!!
You are so welcome! 😀
You spoil us with these great videos and recipes. I can't wait to make this. Thanks Tipper!...😍
Looks delicious!
I think those would be great over pancakes or waffles. What a treat for a special breakfast or brunch.
Thank you so much. All this knowledge you share with us is priceless to me. May God bless you guys, and your home, family and apple trees too.
You are so kind-thank you 😀
My grandmother made ,fried salt pork ,fried potatoes ,fried apples for breakfast , scrapple I never like scrapple ,oatmeal ,fried eggs,toast or biscuits gravy.spoke of dried apples.lot time served sliced tomatoes an cantulope for breakfast or fresh trout or fishcakes.
Sounds so good 😀
I just put up a few pints of apples this morning and i did mine exactly the same way. They sure will be good this winter or any time for sure. Thank you for sharing with us. I love watching your vlog.