Apple Pie in a Jar

This is delicious. It can be eaten straight out of the jar, baked in a pie shell, served over ice cream, etc. It is tricky to NOT make a mess, but it is so worth the stickiness!

• Ready In: 1 hr 5 mins
• Yields: 7 quarts

Ingredients

• 7  quarts apples, peeled, cored, and sliced (fifty medium apples, or approximately a 3 gallon pail full)
• 4 1⁄2 cups sugar
• 1  cup cornstarch
• 2  teaspoons cinnamon
• 1⁄4 teaspoon nutmeg
• 1  teaspoon salt
• 10  cups water
• 3  tablespoons lemon juice
•  lemon juice

Directions

1. Heat 7 1 quart jars while peeling the apples, I pour lemon juice on them to keep them from browning. Once the apples are peeled mix the sugar, cornstarch, cinnamon, nutmeg, salt and water in a large kettle. Heat this over high heat, stirring almost constantly. Bring to a boil, remove the jars from the boiling water and fill with the raw apples. When the sauce is ready it will be clear and thick. Pour the sauce over the apples in the jars, using a knife around the edges to release air bubbles. Fill to 3/4 of an inch from the top. Wipe the rims, place lids on jars, boil in a boiling water bath for twenty minutes. Sometimes they do ooze after being removed from the heat, these I put in the refrigerator and they are eaten first!