Canning Apple-Pear Juice
This past week we canned organic apple-pear juice. A friend of ours invited us over to pick apples and pears from their fruit trees a couple of weeks ago. We filled two five-gallon buckets with fruit and returned home to let the pears finish ripening. When everything was ripe and we had the time, we washed the fruit, sliced it, cut out the blemishes, then put it in the canner/juicer. A bucket of pears and apples It took four batches, but we ended up with seven quarts of apple-pear juice. Ten gallons made seven quarts! 🫣 Juice from two different batches of apples and pears Note: This newsletter contains affiliate links. Purchasing through these links helps support our website and blog at no cost to you. Thank you for your support. We are fortunate to have a steamer/canner/juicer that my mom handed down to us. It uses steam to release the juice from the fruit. If you have everything sterilized, all you need to do is fill the jars once the juice is ready, attach the lids and...