I’m so sorry, but, wait…you just taught this very jittery lady how to can in a matter of 3 minutes. I’ve been trying to learn for 7 years and couldn’t get past the fear. And all of the sudden I’m in tears because I understand!!!!!😭🥳
Yay! You can do this! My new pressure canner sat in the box for 4 years before I ever tried it! But now (thanks to Ruthanne and a few others) I can't live without it! Blessings Kiddo!🌻🐛🌿💚🙏💕👵
Yay!! I am proud of your courage. I would not have made it financially at times over the years if we did not have our preserved foods to rely on. Welcome to our wonderful world of canning!
The day I’ve been waiting for so long. Last week I was able to move into my own home. I’m having coffee and enjoying time with my “long-distance friend”, Ruthann, on a Saturday morning. God is surely Good 🙏🧡 Lorie 😊 P.S. The longer the video the better, in my opinion 😉
Love your Chanel. You have taught me so much. Been watching you since last February. I know longer buy bread and I have been canning since March. I am trying to grow a small garden but I am still learning. Hope you are feeling better. God bless you and your wonderful family. You are a blessing to me. Thank you from Texas
God bless you all I enjoy this amazing content also. Living in Montgomery County, Texas. I ordered 40 pounds of honey crisp apples from Auzure that I pick up next week . I know I want to make apple sauce & Apple pie filling . 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Thank you for sharing your views on consuming healthy bacteria. In the past 4 years I’ve noticed that for a society that obsesses about cleanliness, as a whole we are very unhealthy. I am in much better condition since beginning on the raw milk, whole food, natural medical remedies, etc journey. It’s nice to know others out there feel the same :)
Ruth Ann, you are an amazing teacher. Me an 48 year young woman have learned so much from you over the passed 3 years, now my sister and my niece (who is autistic) is also watching and leaning from you. Thank you for everything you do for your family and mine! GOD BLESS YOU, GOD IS GOOD! ❤🫶🙏
I live in a city in Germany but whenever I get a chance I drink freshly pressed apple juice, preferably mixed with freshly pressed carrot juice. There is no other beverage like that and I like it more than any wine or other drink. It's the taste of my (long ago) childhood and it makes me happy. Vielen Dank, Ruthann.
I don't mind how long your videos are. It is great when you have a full pantry and "run out of room". Give me a great feeling when that happens. We love our canned/preserved food. Well done!
Some years ago, my husband built a much smaller version of that press. We used it at church each autumn for anyone who brought their apples to be pressed. It was a great social event that we held each year about this time.
Making cider/visiting the press is probably my favorite thing you do. All the other traditional skills/homemaking can be done by anyone today and should be. But this cousin of your father's, this heritage and tradition is truly valuable history! What a treasure he and his cider press are. Thank you for sharing this.
You are an amazing Lady. I cannot thank you enough for taking the time to share your recipes with all of us. And to be able to make it with natural ingredients instead of all those preservatives that they put in it is a game changer. I hope you never give this up because it’s so helpful for all of us. God bless you and your family RuthAnn.❤️
I just recently started watching your channel and what a blessing it has been! I am no longer intimidated by yeast breads. No more store bought hamburger and hotdog buns!! So so easy and perfect in every way. My family LOVES them. Thank you from a 64 year old granny who will , Lord willing, be watching you and your beautiful family for a very long time.
This is the perfect ending to my Saturday morning routine. I sit with my Bible for morning devotions and quiet time - before anyone else in the house wakes, and then, I finish with a treat - watching you, RuthAnn. May you have a blessed week. ❤
Thank you Ruth Ann. This has become my Saturday morning ritual with coffee. Your loving family is what’s right in the world. Bless you all. I loved loved loved the cider pressing
I bought a steam canner last season and really live it. It's so much faster than a regular water bath pot. With utility rates so high right now, every way to save is a plus.
I started using a stem canner 4 years ago and LOVE it! Way less water (we’re off grid and that’s a consideration too) and I can do a more rapid turnaround for processing…win win!
I'm really surprised more homesteaders and old-time canners aren't using a steam canner. They are a game-changer. The only thing steam canners don't work for is anything you need to process for more than 45 minutes (because you'd run out of water and you can't open it to refill during the process).
Ohio here and Johnny Appleseed is always an educational topic. We plant apple seeds. Fun to watch them grow not knowing what fruit they might produce fourteen plus years down the road. I shred my apples for pie filling. My grandmother always did it that way.
Hello Ruth Ann. In last weeks video I noticed you have a wooden screen door. I love a screen door like that. The sound of a wooden screen door reminds me of home. It's gives such a comforting feeling. Along with all the wonderful memories your children will have I hope the sound of a screen door will always bring them back home. ❤Patsy
Oh you poor girl. I hope you feel better than you sound. I love your channel. I look forward to spending Saturday mornings with you. May the Lord Bless you and your beautiful family. ❤😊🙏
Wow how lucky yall are to have apple trees,lots of work but the rewards are endless. I make my own apple cider from trees 2 hours away. I make the same as u,but I really like the apple press,I just juice mine in a juicer,and the pulp then goes to my compost pile and too the wild birds. Life is good on the farm. Love ur grandson,getting so big....Great video RuthAnn!
I’m a new subscriber and I am fascinated with your videos and your lifestyle. One of my grandmothers was raised on a farm and she lived on a farm all her life while raising her 10 children. I remember her having canning jars filled with many types of fruits and vegetables. She would cook the wild game her “boys” would get while out hunting. I used to love her fried rabbit and squirrel. She made her own biscuits every week and I loved watching her make the dough in her wooden oblong bowl. I’m mentioning all this to illustrate that I think people were so much healthier when their food was homemade and they worked every day to have the security of enough food to feed their families. Knowing now about all the chemicals and additives being put into processed foods, it’s no wonder so many people have way more health issues. It’s very scary. Thank you for helping to preserve some of these forgotten food prep methods and sharing them with your audience. Have you ever watched or heard of Mary’s Nest on TH-cam? She cooks and preserves according to “pioneer” methods and gives a lot of information on nutrition and the importance of eating whole foods. Both of your channels are so important! Hope your voice is feeling better soon! ❤-Brenda
Doesn't matter that it was long. I loved every minute of it. One of my best friend's family had an orchard business up in Wisconsin so I grew up loving those apples!!! Wonderful memories. Thank you
I agree completely with your answers about the bugs or worms and drinking your apple juice raw…as is with all its nutrients….I have been gardening for years and enjoy eating my own veggies ….I harvested 100 bulbs of garlic this summer and today I am on my way to the garden to plant next year’s garlic. Merci beaucoup. Très intéressant 💕🧄
That apple pie filling has me drooling! I really like your videos Ruthanne! Such a beautiful family! My grandparents spoke a German dialect when they didn’t want the grandchildren to know what they were talking about.😂
Thank you for showing us everything apples. My brother in law has a huge apple tree in his garden in Brittany and I'm always able to bring back home so many kilos of apples. He only keeps some for eating and never does anything with the rest. They keep quite well in the refrigerator, as you said, but I also use them to make chunky compote or jelly by adding them to quince. I also make crumbles or use them in recipes with pork. The cuisine of Normandy likes adding cider and:or apples to their recipes made with pork chops or other cuts of pork. The process of extracting the juice was most interesting to watch.
Just finished canning apples yesterday but would like to get a few more for dehydrating. TY for always posting these fun videos that help others learn what some of us grew up around. I never take for granted, the lessons from my mom, grandma and great-grandma.
Another wonderful video Ruthann. You are such a hard worker and a great momma. You have taught all of us so much in canning, gardening, parenting, and homesteading in general. You are so right, God is so good.
Oh how precious seeing your sweet grandbaby! Winston looks so much like Harrison. Your videos just make me so happy seeing the children working besides you and having such fun.
Love your beautiful channel. I’ve been canning for about 30 yrs now. It has only been in the last 5 years that I also do not cover my jars in water bath. Now I never have siphoning. 👍 By the way……. That adorable grandson of yours looks just like you
I always look forward to your Saturday morning videos. So wholesome, educational and relaxing. Your grandson is so adorable and clearly happy to be your kitchen helper/taster. Watching your apples get pressed into cider was interesting and knowing a family member was doing it for you was touching. I miss my dad and all the members of that generation of our family. Their ways of talking was a little different that the younger generation and it touched my heart. Thank you for explaining all the benefits of raw apple cider as I was completely unaware. The idea of using ziplock bags in the freezer to store the cider was brilliant! I'm going to try that method myself. I wonder if using tote bags to hold the ziplock bags might be beneficial as well. Blessings to you and your lovely family. You are always a blessing to me.
@@cynthiafisher9907 Thanks for the tip! I was also thinking of not stacking more than a couple high until they are solid and setting them on a tray so the bottom of the bag is perfectly flat..
You are such a witness. So loving! So generous with your time so real. Thank you! Enjoying your channel. Learning lots is what such a witness for the Lord
Good morning sweet lady. Hope you and the family are doing well. Starting to get cooler here in Arkansas, not sure I'm ready for winter.. prayers for you and your family, and you get to feeling better!
Wow! Loved seeing Winston on the counter, the impressive length of the apple peel, the detailed instructions you give, including when you are cutting up the apples, and the apple cider grand finale. Every fall my mom and I used to go to an apple farm in Ohio and leave with bags of the best apples I’ve ever tasted. They always offered samples and jugs of fresh pressed apple cider and so the cider press portion you shared meant more than you’ll ever know. God is good, all the time. Thank you RuthAnn.
Ruthann, I am a new subscriber to your channel and have thoroughly enjoyed the many videos I have watched over the past few weeks. I do some preserving and cooking from scratch but we live in town so we do what we can with what we have. Thank you for sharing your family life with us. You’re an inspiration and guiding light for so many. God is good!
I am so glad I found your channel, Ruth Ann! I have never had to can or preserve apples, but I love learning from you. Your grandson is just adorable and I love the faces he made at tasting apple sauce. It was also interesting to watch the pressing of the apples and see how cider is made. I never knew how the process went especially with it being all natural and not processed. It does my heart good to see practices being used that are actually good for you. You made this so interesting that I may buy some natural apples ad even dehydrate my own. I was always afraid that they would not be crispy. Thank you for the great education you share with us. I really appreciate you and Elvin for all your hard work.
Thank you for this great cooking and family video. Watching the boys joy over long apple peels reminds me children do not need expensive toys. LOL. God bless!
Exceptional video. Your content is so informative but the family participation is the best part. Such a memory maker. Thank you for your hard work in bringing us along.
Your official applesauce taster is adorable. 🥰 And isn't it a wonderful feeling to take jars into your storage and realize there is no more room on the shelves!
Thank you Ruthann as usual you have taught me more great things. I used to freeze my soups in containers & they always took up so much space, now I put my soups (like green pea n ham) into ziplock bags I lay them flat on a cookie tray until they’re frozen then stack them. I also make soups like pea soup more concentrated when I’m planning to freeze it and then add water when I reheat it. I don’t have room to freeze extra water.
I love Saturday morning! I never know what you'll be teaching me, but I always enjoy and pick up some wonderful tidbits of knowledge! Today was no exception. Have a wonderful week, RuthAnn.
This is a special day for me, all my favorite videos are airing! Our extended family love anything apple. We always made applesauce. My homemade sauce was much requested for family potlucks/dinners. I make mine differently as we like chunky applesauce so I peel, cook spice and skip the food mill. What a wonderful way to warm your house, with the smell of cooking apples! Hope you are feeling better soon
Is so neat to see how intrigued Harrison is in all mechanical things You can almost see the wheels turning in his mind as he's watching You're raising an amazing family You guys should give yourself credit for that God bless your family and thank you for all your content Have a wonderful holiday season
It’s very interesting to watch how you pass this down to the younger generation. My 5 year old granddaughter Audrey watched with me and now she has more ideas of what to do with our apples!❤
Thank you so much for your channel! It is my favorite and I’ve learned so much from you. You truly are a Proverbs 31 woman. May God bless you and your family always!
Good morning RuthAnn and sweet family! Apple harvest brings back so many memories of sitting under a shade tree and preparing apples with my mother, grandmother and great grandmother. My grandparents dried apples on window screen in the sun. Preserving apples now is a lot easier and faster. Good job on preserving your apple harvest. I hope you and your lovely family have a very blessed weekend!
Good Morning sweet lady, I hope your voice gets better soon, Winston is getting so big how precious he is , I see he love your apple sauce what a handsome sweet baby, Winston is going to learn all the wonderful skills the rest of the family knows you are a wonderful Grandma. Mother, Wife and friend you are . I love your videos and I love the wonderful Christian lady you are, you amaze me with everything you accomplish. You always start my Saturday off with a smile and I always learn something new. Thank you for everything you do for your subscribers you bring us all a lot of happiness and joy.
I loved watching the old cidar press! It tastes so much better raw. Fortunately, we have an orchard that still does it naturally and pasteurized. I may stop by there today after stopping at the farm we go to for meat, eggs, and butter. God is good, indeed.❤ Thank you for taking us along. I love your videos, and I hope everyone has a place to get really good food and cider.
That was a treat to watch the cider mill process. Wish I had your energy, still. I have one apple tree and was blessed with an abundance one year. I made apple sauce, apple butter, and apple pie filling. The other years, they were riddled with coddling moth. Another time, I got enough cuts to make apple cider vinegar. This year, many were damaged in a late hail storm. One fruit tree farmer teaches homemade traps in jugs with apple cider vinegar and another sweet ingredient... basically draws in the moth and drowns it. However, it also draws in the bees, so I quit using it when I forget to remove them during the day... I have used an organic spray but we got a lot of rain this last spring so spraying was a waste. Last year I used the traps, but they still managed to do a lot of damage. I pick up the small apples when they fall to the ground and put them in a bucket of water to drown the worm. I just wish I could have another good apple harvest year!
That was so awesome to see your dads cousin and his apple cider press. I loved that l was also able to brush up on my German! Thank you again, RuthAnne, for a delightful video. God bless you all and many prayers 🙏🏻 Nurse Judi in Scottsdale AZ and Eucharistic Minister ✝️ 💕✨️💙🙏🏻✝️
Winston resembles Harrison so much, to my mind. He's such a beautiful baby! I hope you feel better soon, and your voice, too, Ruth Ann. There's always great information in your videos, I very much appreciate all the apple facts. Blessings!🍎🍏🍎🍏🍎🍏🍎🍏
GIRL!!❤ I swear you never stop. You remind me so much of myself, always going, always serving the Lord, always providing for the family. Take care of that throat! It's ok to take a break mama. ❤❤
What a great video, really enjoyed it. The apple press was an eye opener for me, so basic but so efficient, I am sure that the dregs would be fed to livestock. Thank you for your time in putting all these videos together so we can watch you and your family. Best wishes from England.
I love apple canned pie filling. I gave it as Christmas goodies one year and everyone loved it. Not to mention how easy it is to make a apple pie late. Beautiful work.
Reminds me when I was a child and in the fall we would make cider and we would also cut sugarcane and make syrup. Ruth Ann, God is good and thank you for always reminding his of his goodness and sharing your heart and home with us.
I have to say,,, I don't believe that Kendrick is gonna be all that shy... I also find it very sweet the way he watches you off to the side, it appears that he really likes hearing your voice!! That's real love!
God is so, SO good, friend! 🫶🏼 Beautiful burden of abundance you're experiencing. Thanks for sharing! I'll be saving this video for next fall's Apple harvest!
Many years ago we purchased a tomato paste mill at a estate sale. What a time saver never peel or core fruit just put in and turn crank. Very dry remains come out and very fine apple sauce.
Hi Miss Ruthann! Great, informative video as always! I have learned so much from you, especially about canning and preserving God's wonderful bounty and gifts! I just love the little peeks we get into your life. Most Americans will never be able to live like you all do, in fact sadly, they wouldn't want to, seeing only the hard work and blindly missing the rewards and the great love in your family. Your grandson is getting so big, and what a handsome boy!!❤❤ God Almighty bless you with continued bounty and good health for your entire family! Happy Fall!!❤❤❤
I’ve watched your videos all summer and I really enjoy them. My husband brought me a couple of bushels of free apples last weekend and I finally had time to do them up today. I got 7 quarts of pie filling, 13 pints of apple sauce, a small pan of your baked apple dessert, and 2 quarts of apple juice. I only had a handful of bad apples that I put out for the deer. I’ll work on the other half tomorrow! We live on 5 acres in WV. We’re a little past the age of having a big garden so I support our local farmers. Thanks for sharing your days with us!
I'm SO glad you were blessed with so many apples. We have had none this year. An orchard near us presses cider and sells it raw. It tastes SO GOOD! I am saving space in the freezer for my pork order, but might have to get a few extra gallons of cider into freezer bags and make room in the freezer. Fortunately, we canned extra applesauce last year, and I dehydrated some extra too, as the trees around me tends to bear more heavily every other year. I'm grateful that your father's cousin let you film the pressing process. The only ones I've seen used are smaller wooden ones that you crank by hand. ❤
Some of our church ladies have gone in together to get a couple of bins of apples from a local orchard so we’ve been canning lots of applesauce making apple butter and I’m freezing apple slices to use for apple crisp/crumble and apple pies etc through the year. My children have been begging to “make apple cider” but I told them unfortunately that’s not a skill I have and am not even sure it could be done. Seeing this large apple cider press was a treat for sure
I love your channel and love watching your family. I have been preserving food for 50 years and watching you make applesauce--Oh, Ruthann you should look into a Victorio Strainer. It will make the process of applesauce and tomatoes so much faster and easier! Thank you for teaching so many how to live a more self-sustained life.
Your boys working with you peeling those apples makes me 😊. Praying you feel better. Thanks for taking us along to see the mill. What a wonderful trip 😍 ❤️
We always got our cider from the mill. I don't like the grocery store cider as well. I love watching your life. Makes me remember my childhood. I still do some of the things but have gotten lazy. This inspires me. Thank you.
Ruth Ann, I enjoy your channel so very much. I learned the "Art" of canning, pickling and preserving from my Grandmother and Aunt years ago. However, I find it so interesting to see the various nuances of other individuals techniques. Watching how you can and preserve food has added validity to some of the ways that I was taught. The cider pressing was a wonderful share. Again, bringing such fond memories of pressing apples to mind. Your storage cellar is a beautiful array of color and comfort. God is Good. ❣❣❣
I got to "help" my brother-in-law harvest his wheat many years ago. I climbed up on the back of the transport truck and looked at all the grain and was shocked to see all the ground up grasshoppers and other bugs that were in the grain. But if you think about it, of course there are bugs. The same has to be true for apple cider. Thanks so much for taking us along on your apple preservation journey. It was fun and I love seeing your kids helping and having so much fun.
My apples are on as well. It can feel overwhelming but I'm so greatful for my fruit trees and my garden. Thank you for explaining the difference between cider and juice I have always wondered. I wish I had a cider press. Maybe someday.
I’m so sorry, but, wait…you just taught this very jittery lady how to can in a matter of 3 minutes. I’ve been trying to learn for 7 years and couldn’t get past the fear. And all of the sudden I’m in tears because I understand!!!!!😭🥳
Awesome!😎 You can do it and Ruthann is the best teacher I've seen on TH-cam!❤️
Awe, my heart goes out to you!
What an awesome goal reached!
Yay! You can do this! My new pressure canner sat in the box for 4 years before I ever tried it! But now (thanks to Ruthanne and a few others) I can't live without it! Blessings Kiddo!🌻🐛🌿💚🙏💕👵
Yay!! I am proud of your courage. I would not have made it financially at times over the years if we did not have our preserved foods to rely on. Welcome to our wonderful world of canning!
Psalms 59:17 NKJV💝💝💝
[17] To You, O my Strength, I will sing praises; For God is my defense, My God of mercy.💖💖💖
The day I’ve been waiting for so long. Last week I was able to move into my own home. I’m having coffee and enjoying time with my “long-distance friend”, Ruthann, on a Saturday morning. God is surely Good 🙏🧡 Lorie 😊
P.S. The longer the video the better, in my opinion 😉
Welcome to your new home ! We are so happy for you! 🙏🧡
@@Ruthannzimm thank you so much! You and your family are definitely a part of my home too 😊
I'm in the process of remodeling the dream house on 5 acres. Congrats to you.
Congratulations on your new adventure
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I don't mind long videos because they are so informative and enlightening. I love learning what I don't know.
Me also!❤
Me too... too!
Ditto!!
Wondering if there's away to make cider on our own without the big equipment.
Awesomely informative video on everything apples!! 🍎 ❤
Love your Chanel. You have taught me so much. Been watching you since last February. I know longer buy bread and I have been canning since March. I am trying to grow a small garden but I am still learning. Hope you are feeling better. God bless you and your wonderful family. You are a blessing to me. Thank you from Texas
I was getting ready to comment but realized you said exactly what I was going to say. Great minds....
I am so glad you have been enjoying my channel!
Praying that you will feel better soon 🙏
God bless you all
I enjoy this amazing content also.
Living in Montgomery County, Texas.
I ordered 40 pounds of honey crisp apples from Auzure that I pick up next week .
I know I want to make apple sauce & Apple pie filling .
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Im in South Africa I never miss an episode
Thank you for sharing your views on consuming healthy bacteria. In the past 4 years I’ve noticed that for a society that obsesses about cleanliness, as a whole we are very unhealthy. I am in much better condition since beginning on the raw milk, whole food, natural medical remedies, etc journey. It’s nice to know others out there feel the same :)
Ruth Ann, you are an amazing teacher. Me an 48 year young woman have learned so much from you over the passed 3 years, now my sister and my niece (who is autistic) is also watching and leaning from you. Thank you for everything you do for your family and mine! GOD BLESS YOU,
GOD IS GOOD! ❤🫶🙏
You are a lovely example of the Proverbs 31 woman. God bless you and all your efforts on behalf of your family and others. ❤
Of my gosh, Winston is adorable! The cute faces he makes while tasting the apple sauce gave me a good belly laugh.
I agree! Of all the babies I see I think he is one of the cutest I've seen!💙
I live in a city in Germany but whenever I get a chance I drink freshly pressed apple juice, preferably mixed with freshly pressed carrot juice. There is no other beverage like that and I like it more than any wine or other drink. It's the taste of my (long ago) childhood and it makes me happy. Vielen Dank, Ruthann.
I don't mind how long your videos are. It is great when you have a full pantry and "run out of room". Give me a great feeling when that happens. We love our canned/preserved food. Well done!
God is good. He also helps those who help themselves. You are giving that example to your children daily.
Some years ago, my husband built a much smaller version of that press. We used it at church each autumn for anyone who brought their apples to be pressed. It was a great social event that we held each year about this time.
Making cider/visiting the press is probably my favorite thing you do. All the other traditional skills/homemaking can be done by anyone today and should be. But this cousin of your father's, this heritage and tradition is truly valuable history! What a treasure he and his cider press are. Thank you for sharing this.
You are an amazing Lady. I cannot thank you enough for taking the time to share your recipes with all of us. And to be able to make it with natural ingredients instead of all those preservatives that they put in it is a game changer. I hope you never give this up because it’s so helpful for all of us. God bless you and your family RuthAnn.❤️
I just recently started watching your channel and what a blessing it has been! I am no longer intimidated by yeast breads. No more store bought hamburger and hotdog buns!! So so easy and perfect in every way. My family LOVES them. Thank you from a 64 year old granny who will , Lord willing, be watching you and your beautiful family for a very long time.
This is the perfect ending to my Saturday morning routine. I sit with my Bible for morning devotions and quiet time - before anyone else in the house wakes, and then, I finish with a treat - watching you, RuthAnn. May you have a blessed week. ❤
Too long? I'm always sad when it is time for you to wrap up a video! Thank you for sharing and inspiring! God is truly good ALL the time. ❤
Thank you Ruth Ann. This has become my Saturday morning ritual with coffee. Your loving family is what’s right in the world. Bless you all. I loved loved loved the cider pressing
I bought a steam canner accidentally and I love it. It's so much easier it takes so much less water. No lugging around gallons of water.
Meg Hollar of Hollar Homestead YT had a viewer send her a steam canner. She said she absolutely loves it & wishes she learned about it sooner!❤️
I bought a steam canner last season and really live it. It's so much faster than a regular water bath pot. With utility rates so high right now, every way to save is a plus.
I started using a stem canner 4 years ago and LOVE it! Way less water (we’re off grid and that’s a consideration too) and I can do a more rapid turnaround for processing…win win!
I'm really surprised more homesteaders and old-time canners aren't using a steam canner. They are a game-changer. The only thing steam canners don't work for is anything you need to process for more than 45 minutes (because you'd run out of water and you can't open it to refill during the process).
Just asking if this steem canner is like a pressure canner
Ohio here and Johnny Appleseed is always an educational topic. We plant apple seeds. Fun to watch them grow not knowing what fruit they might produce fourteen plus years down the road. I shred my apples for pie filling. My grandmother always did it that way.
Hello Ruth Ann. In last weeks video I noticed you have a wooden screen door. I love a screen door like that. The sound of a wooden screen door reminds me of home. It's gives such a comforting feeling. Along with all the wonderful memories your children will have I hope the sound of a screen door will always bring them back home. ❤Patsy
🍁🍂🍁The children are so amazing and strong! Wow! You are a wonderful role model for them. Keep being awesome. Hugs and prayers. 🍁🍂🍁
Good morning Ruth Ann. I was praying and thinking of you and your family because I wait for your video every Saturday morning. Have a wonderful day.
Winston is such an adorable baby boy, how sweet to see hm sitting on the counter "helping" with the applesauce!
Your canning closet is beautiful. All the colors are lovely. Winston has surely grown. He is precious and so blessed.
Oh you poor girl. I hope you feel better than you sound. I love your channel. I look forward to spending Saturday mornings with you. May the Lord Bless you and your beautiful family. ❤😊🙏
Wow how lucky yall are to have apple trees,lots of work but the rewards are endless. I make my own apple cider from trees 2 hours away. I make the same as u,but I really like the apple press,I just juice mine in a juicer,and the pulp then goes to my compost pile and too the wild birds. Life is good on the farm. Love ur grandson,getting so big....Great video RuthAnn!
I’m a new subscriber and I am fascinated with your videos and your lifestyle. One of my grandmothers was raised on a farm and she lived on a farm all her life while raising her 10 children. I remember her having canning jars filled with many types of fruits and vegetables. She would cook the wild game her “boys” would get while out hunting. I used to love her fried rabbit and squirrel. She made her own biscuits every week and I loved watching her make the dough in her wooden oblong bowl. I’m mentioning all this to illustrate that I think people were so much healthier when their food was homemade and they worked every day to have the security of enough food to feed their families. Knowing now about all the chemicals and additives being put into processed foods, it’s no wonder so many people have way more health issues. It’s very scary.
Thank you for helping to preserve some of these forgotten food prep methods and sharing them with your audience. Have you ever watched or heard of Mary’s Nest on TH-cam? She cooks and preserves according to “pioneer” methods and gives a lot of information on nutrition and the importance of eating whole foods. Both of your channels are so important!
Hope your voice is feeling better soon!
❤-Brenda
What blessings! Seeing you all work together to pick and preserve this bounty! 🥰 Your cellar is a thing of beauty!
Doesn't matter that it was long. I loved every minute of it. One of my best friend's family had an orchard business up in Wisconsin so I grew up loving those apples!!! Wonderful memories. Thank you
I agree completely with your answers about the bugs or worms and drinking your apple juice raw…as is with all its nutrients….I have been gardening for years and enjoy eating my own veggies ….I harvested 100 bulbs of garlic this summer and today I am on my way to the garden to plant next year’s garlic. Merci beaucoup. Très intéressant 💕🧄
That apple pie filling has me drooling! I really like your videos Ruthanne! Such a beautiful family! My grandparents spoke a German dialect when they didn’t want the grandchildren to know what they were talking about.😂
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What a fine memory of the apple press and making cider. Love it
Thank you for showing us everything apples. My brother in law has a huge apple tree in his garden in Brittany and I'm always able to bring back home so many kilos of apples. He only keeps some for eating and never does anything with the rest. They keep quite well in the refrigerator, as you said, but I also use them to make chunky compote or jelly by adding them to quince. I also make crumbles or use them in recipes with pork. The cuisine of Normandy likes adding cider and:or apples to their recipes made with pork chops or other cuts of pork.
The process of extracting the juice was most interesting to watch.
Just finished canning apples yesterday but would like to get a few more for dehydrating. TY for always posting these fun videos that help others learn what some of us grew up around. I never take for granted, the lessons from my mom, grandma and great-grandma.
Another wonderful video Ruthann. You are such a hard worker and a great momma. You have taught all of us so much in canning, gardening, parenting, and homesteading in general. You are so right, God is so good.
Oh how precious seeing your sweet grandbaby! Winston looks so much like Harrison. Your videos just make me so happy seeing the children working besides you and having such fun.
Love your beautiful channel. I’ve been canning for about 30 yrs now. It has only been in the last 5 years that I also do not cover my jars in water bath. Now I never have siphoning. 👍
By the way……. That adorable grandson of yours looks just like you
I always look forward to your Saturday morning videos. So wholesome, educational and relaxing. Your grandson is so adorable and clearly happy to be your kitchen helper/taster. Watching your apples get pressed into cider was interesting and knowing a family member was doing it for you was touching. I miss my dad and all the members of that generation of our family. Their ways of talking was a little different that the younger generation and it touched my heart. Thank you for explaining all the benefits of raw apple cider as I was completely unaware. The idea of using ziplock bags in the freezer to store the cider was brilliant! I'm going to try that method myself. I wonder if using tote bags to hold the ziplock bags might be beneficial as well. Blessings to you and your lovely family. You are always a blessing to me.
I have tried and tried to freeze things, like this, but I can't find bags that will stay zipped.
What a mess!!! And waste!!
@@aryroy9158Don’t fill them up as much, the product expands when freezing.
@@cynthiafisher9907 Thanks for the tip! I was also thinking of not stacking more than a couple high until they are solid and setting them on a tray so the bottom of the bag is perfectly flat..
@@buckonono7996 Yes, that’s what I do.
Such a blessing to have the problem of trying to find space for your canned, frozen, etc. food stuffs.
You are such a witness. So loving! So generous with your time so real. Thank you! Enjoying your channel. Learning lots is what such a witness for the Lord
Cutest little helper you got there, Gramma. What a BLESSING!!! ❤️
Winston is sooooo adorable!!
Love, love, love seeing your pantry/cellar!! It shows God's goodness & faithfulness. Blessings to you and your family. 🙏
Good morning sweet lady. Hope you and the family are doing well. Starting to get cooler here in Arkansas, not sure I'm ready for winter.. prayers for you and your family, and you get to feeling better!
Wow! Loved seeing Winston on the counter, the impressive length of the apple peel, the detailed instructions you give, including when you are cutting up the apples, and the apple cider grand finale. Every fall my mom and I used to go to an apple farm in Ohio and leave with bags of the best apples I’ve ever tasted. They always offered samples and jugs of fresh pressed apple cider and so the cider press portion you shared meant more than you’ll ever know. God is good, all the time. Thank you RuthAnn.
What a fun day picking apples! That little Winston is adorable ♥️ Thank you for sharing your day.
Winston is so cute. Take care of yourself. Feel better soon.
Ruthann, I am a new subscriber to your channel and have thoroughly enjoyed the many videos I have watched over the past few weeks. I do some preserving and cooking from scratch but we live in town so we do what we can with what we have. Thank you for sharing your family life with us. You’re an inspiration and guiding light for so many. God is good!
I am so glad I found your channel, Ruth Ann! I have never had to can or preserve apples, but I love learning from you.
Your grandson is just adorable and I love the faces he made at tasting apple sauce.
It was also interesting to watch the pressing of the apples and see how cider is made. I never knew how the process went especially with it being all natural and not processed. It does my heart good to see practices being used that are actually good for you.
You made this so interesting that I may buy some natural apples ad even dehydrate my own. I was always afraid that they would not be crispy.
Thank you for the great education you share with us. I really appreciate you and Elvin for all your hard work.
Thank you for this great cooking and family video. Watching the boys joy over long apple peels reminds me children do not need expensive toys. LOL. God bless!
Your grandson is adorable. I just finished my apple preservation a couple weeks ago. It is a lot of work. But so worth it. God bless you.
Good morning Ruthann! Winston is getting so big. So cute, he loves his Grandma's apple sauce.
Exceptional video. Your content is so informative but the family participation is the best part. Such a memory maker. Thank you for your hard work in bringing us along.
Your official applesauce taster is adorable. 🥰 And isn't it a wonderful feeling to take jars into your storage and realize there is no more room on the shelves!
Good morning Ruth Ann, love your channel!!
Hope you’re feeling better today 😊
From NE Ohio
Thank you Ruthann as usual you have taught me more great things.
I used to freeze my soups in containers & they always took up so much space, now I put my soups (like green pea n ham) into ziplock bags I lay them flat on a cookie tray until they’re frozen then stack them. I also make soups like pea soup more concentrated when I’m planning to freeze it and then add water when I reheat it. I don’t have room to freeze extra water.
Great ideas!
By the way, I love and appreciate your longer videos! GOD IS GOOD! ❤🫶🙏
I love Saturday morning! I never know what you'll be teaching me, but I always enjoy and pick up some wonderful tidbits of knowledge! Today was no exception. Have a wonderful week, RuthAnn.
This is a special day for me, all my favorite videos are airing! Our extended family love anything apple. We always made applesauce. My homemade sauce was much requested for family potlucks/dinners. I make mine differently as we like chunky applesauce so I peel, cook spice and skip the food mill.
What a wonderful way to warm your house, with the smell of cooking apples!
Hope you are feeling better soon
We like chunky app!e sauce too. I also make some smooth for the grandkids.
Love it when you videos are a little longer. I learn so much from them.
Is so neat to see how intrigued Harrison is in all mechanical things You can almost see the wheels turning in his mind as he's watching You're raising an amazing family You guys should give yourself credit for that God bless your family and thank you for all your content Have a wonderful holiday season
Your grandson is so cute sitting up there...♡♡♡♡
And thank you for sharing
It’s very interesting to watch how you pass this down to the younger generation. My 5 year old granddaughter Audrey watched with me and now she has more ideas of what to do with our apples!❤
Thank you so much for your channel! It is my favorite and I’ve learned so much from you. You truly are a Proverbs 31 woman. May God bless you and your family always!
Good morning RuthAnn and sweet family! Apple harvest brings back so many memories of sitting under a shade tree and preparing apples with my mother, grandmother and great grandmother. My grandparents dried apples on window screen in the sun.
Preserving apples now is a lot easier and faster. Good job on preserving your apple harvest.
I hope you and your lovely family have a very blessed weekend!
Good Morning sweet lady, I hope your voice gets better soon, Winston is getting so big how precious he is , I see he love your apple sauce what a handsome sweet baby, Winston is going to learn all the wonderful skills the rest of the family knows you are a wonderful Grandma. Mother, Wife and friend you are . I love your videos and I love the wonderful Christian lady you are, you amaze me with everything you accomplish. You always start my Saturday off with a smile and I always learn something new. Thank you for everything you do for your subscribers you bring us all a lot of happiness and joy.
I loved watching the old cidar press! It tastes so much better raw. Fortunately, we have an orchard that still does it naturally and pasteurized. I may stop by there today after stopping at the farm we go to for meat, eggs, and butter. God is good, indeed.❤ Thank you for taking us along. I love your videos, and I hope everyone has a place to get really good food and cider.
That was a treat to watch the cider mill process. Wish I had your energy, still.
I have one apple tree and was blessed with an abundance one year. I made apple sauce, apple butter, and apple pie filling. The other years, they were riddled with coddling moth. Another time, I got enough cuts to make apple cider vinegar. This year, many were damaged in a late hail storm.
One fruit tree farmer teaches homemade traps in jugs with apple cider vinegar and another sweet ingredient... basically draws in the moth and drowns it. However, it also draws in the bees, so I quit using it when I forget to remove them during the day... I have used an organic spray but we got a lot of rain this last spring so spraying was a waste. Last year I used the traps, but they still managed to do a lot of damage. I pick up the small apples when they fall to the ground and put them in a bucket of water to drown the worm. I just wish I could have another good apple harvest year!
That was so awesome to see your dads cousin and his apple cider press. I loved that l was also able to brush up on my German! Thank you again, RuthAnne, for a delightful video. God bless you all and many prayers 🙏🏻 Nurse Judi in Scottsdale AZ and Eucharistic Minister ✝️ 💕✨️💙🙏🏻✝️
Winston resembles Harrison so much, to my mind. He's such a beautiful baby! I hope you feel better soon, and your voice, too, Ruth Ann. There's always great information in your videos, I very much appreciate all the apple facts. Blessings!🍎🍏🍎🍏🍎🍏🍎🍏
GIRL!!❤ I swear you never stop. You remind me so much of myself, always going, always serving the Lord, always providing for the family. Take care of that throat! It's ok to take a break mama. ❤❤
Girl, you need a freeze dryer! I love watching you interact with your children. The boys crack me up!
What a great video, really enjoyed it. The apple press was an eye opener for me, so basic but so efficient, I am sure that the dregs would be fed to livestock. Thank you for your time in putting all these videos together so we can watch you and your family. Best wishes from England.
Thank you for inviting us into your family’s ways… love your channel ❤️
I love apple canned pie filling. I gave it as Christmas goodies one year and everyone loved it. Not to mention how easy it is to make a apple pie late. Beautiful work.
It’s so cool what your kids get to experience!
Reminds me when I was a child and in the fall we would make cider and we would also cut sugarcane and make syrup. Ruth Ann, God is good and thank you for always reminding his of his goodness and sharing your heart and home with us.
Thank you Ruth Ann God is good.
Praise the LORD! Hallelujah! Amen!
That’s so cool! How peaceful knowing your family is taking care of ❤
I have to say,,, I don't believe that Kendrick is gonna be all that shy... I also find it very sweet the way he watches you off to the side, it appears that he really likes hearing your voice!! That's real love!
God is so, SO good, friend! 🫶🏼 Beautiful burden of abundance you're experiencing. Thanks for sharing! I'll be saving this video for next fall's Apple harvest!
Winston sure looks like his grandpa what a beautiful baby God bless your family
Yes! God is good! I so love and appreciate whatever you do or make around your homestead! Thank you for all the long hours it takes Ruth Ann
Always a joy to see a happy baby 'helping' 😊
Thank you for once again allowing us into your home. Another great time with you and your family.
Many years ago we purchased a tomato paste mill at a estate sale. What a time saver never peel or core fruit just put in and turn crank. Very dry remains come out and very fine apple sauce.
I love how you are teaching your kids.. This is what ALL kids need to do.. Thank you for making videos!.)
Hi Miss Ruthann! Great, informative video as always! I have learned so much from you, especially about canning and preserving God's wonderful bounty and gifts! I just love the little peeks we get into your life. Most Americans will never be able to live like you all do, in fact sadly, they wouldn't want to, seeing only the hard work and blindly missing the rewards and the great love in your family. Your grandson is getting so big, and what a handsome boy!!❤❤
God Almighty bless you with continued bounty and good health for your entire family! Happy Fall!!❤❤❤
I’ve watched your videos all summer and I really enjoy them. My husband brought me a couple of bushels of free apples last weekend and I finally had time to do them up today. I got 7 quarts of pie filling, 13 pints of apple sauce, a small pan of your baked apple dessert, and 2 quarts of apple juice. I only had a handful of bad apples that I put out for the deer. I’ll work on the other half tomorrow! We live on 5 acres in WV. We’re a little past the age of having a big garden so I support our local farmers. Thanks for sharing your days with us!
I'm SO glad you were blessed with so many apples. We have had none this year. An orchard near us presses cider and sells it raw. It tastes SO GOOD!
I am saving space in the freezer for my pork order, but might have to get a few extra gallons of cider into freezer bags and make room in the freezer.
Fortunately, we canned extra applesauce last year, and I dehydrated some extra too, as the trees around me tends to bear more heavily every other year.
I'm grateful that your father's cousin let you film the pressing process. The only ones I've seen used are smaller wooden ones that you crank by hand. ❤
Some of our church ladies have gone in together to get a couple of bins of apples from a local orchard so we’ve been canning lots of applesauce making apple butter and I’m freezing apple slices to use for apple crisp/crumble and apple pies etc through the year. My children have been begging to “make apple cider” but I told them unfortunately that’s not a skill I have and am not even sure it could be done. Seeing this large apple cider press was a treat for sure
I love your channel and love watching your family. I have been preserving food for 50 years and watching you make applesauce--Oh, Ruthann you should look into a Victorio Strainer. It will make the process of applesauce and tomatoes so much faster and easier! Thank you for teaching so many how to live a more self-sustained life.
Yes, that’s what I was thinking! And pumpkin purée!
Your boys working with you peeling those apples makes me 😊. Praying you feel better. Thanks for taking us along to see the mill. What a wonderful trip 😍 ❤️
We always got our cider from the mill. I don't like the grocery store cider as well. I love watching your life. Makes me remember my childhood. I still do some of the things but have gotten lazy. This inspires me. Thank you.
Ruth Ann, I enjoy your channel so very much. I learned the "Art" of canning, pickling and preserving from my Grandmother and Aunt years ago. However, I find it so interesting to see the various nuances of other individuals techniques. Watching how you can and preserve food has added validity to some of the ways that I was taught. The cider pressing was a wonderful share. Again, bringing such fond memories of pressing apples to mind. Your storage cellar is a beautiful array of color and comfort. God is Good. ❣❣❣
I got to "help" my brother-in-law harvest his wheat many years ago. I climbed up on the back of the transport truck and looked at all the grain and was shocked to see all the ground up grasshoppers and other bugs that were in the grain. But if you think about it, of course there are bugs. The same has to be true for apple cider. Thanks so much for taking us along on your apple preservation journey. It was fun and I love seeing your kids helping and having so much fun.
That apple pressing part is so cool!
I put apple in the freezer this week. Just one buschel, sliced in pie quantities. Making a cobbler while watching your video. Love your channel.
My apples are on as well. It can feel overwhelming but I'm so greatful for my fruit trees and my garden. Thank you for explaining the difference between cider and juice I have always wondered. I wish I had a cider press. Maybe someday.