Today was the first serious canning day of the season.

The first batch of William’s Pride apples were ready to be something else. With last year’s great success of canned apple pie filling, we decided to make that first.

The apple pie filling is in the center quart jars, a batch of dilly beans to the right and a couple batches of pickle relish to the left..
Oooooh. Dill or sweet relish? I desperately want a nice sweet relish recipe!
Sweet relish – this page has many recipes – http://www.uga.edu/nchfp/how/relish.html
Looks good! We have a family of 10, and we love to can together – It’s great bonding time! Just finished pears and moving on to corn…
I found this great t-shirt that says “Yes, we canned!†We may all need to get one : ) You can see it here:
http://www.cafepress.com/cannedlaughter