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Canning apples is a great way to preserve the fresh flavor to enjoy throughout the year. Learn how to home can plain apples slices, quarters, or chunks for your food storage shelves.<\/p>

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Although apples can be stored in a root cellar or cool location for a long time, having peeled, cored, and sliced apples ready to go can be a time saver in the kitchen. Canned apples can be enjoyed right out of the jar, or added to your favorite baked, simmered, or fried recipes.<\/p>

Tips for Canning Apples<\/h2>

The best apples for canning are freshly harvested, local apples. Apples found out of season in the stores have been kept in storage, which affects the freshness, crispness, and juiciness.<\/p>

Types of Apples for Canning<\/h3>

Choose crisp apple varieties that hold up well when cooked. Baking apples such as Braeburn, Cortland, Fuji, Honey gold, Gala, Granny Smith, Pink Lady, and Honeycrisp are good choices. Consider mixing several varieties for flavor.<\/p>

Slightly damaged or softer apple varieties, such as Jonagolds, Macouns, McIntosh, Golden Delicious, and Red Delicious can be turned into canned applesauce<\/a>.<\/p>

Select fresh, firm apples with no bruises or insect damage that have a strong apple aroma. If you are aiming for a full canner load, that would be about 17 1\/2 pounds  for a load of 7 quarts, and about 13 1\/2 pounds for a canner load of 9 pint sized jars depending on the size of your apple pieces.<\/p>

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Decide on the Jar Size<\/h3>

Think about how you will use canned apples. I like canning apples in a mix of quarts and pints. You can fit about 3 pounds of apples into a quart-sized jar. That is just the right amount to make an apple pie<\/a>, apple crisps, and for most baked recipes, while the pints can be used for snacking.<\/p>

The processing time is the same for pint and quart sized jars, so feel free to mix jar sizes in the same canner load.<\/p>

Select a Preserving Liquid<\/h3>

Canning fruit in a sugar syrup helps to maintain flavor and shape. You can preserve apples in a sugar syrup, honey syrup, apple juice, white grape juice, or even plain water.<\/p>

This recipe uses a very light sugar syrup, but feel free to substitute any of these options:<\/p>

Syrup for 9 Pint Sized Jars:<\/strong><\/p>