Jaring and Apple Muffins

A few weeks ago, we used some of our garden apple trees to make apple pie filling. The hardest part of the process was figuring out how to use the soviet-style canning equipment that they have here.

Turns out that the way you sterilize jars is to place them upside down over a pan of boiling water and letting the steam vent into the jar. We couldn't replicate the process exactly the same way that our friends from town showed us at their house, but we did figure it out eventually:

And today we busted open a jar and made some cinnamon apple muffins. It was an awesome breakfast to celebrate being back home at last.