Obviously, science has sort of overshadowed everything in our school curriculum right now. Not that we aren't doing all sorts of other stuff, but this is definitely the most time consuming, and noteworthy.
This week's lab was learning how to can applesauce. Why? To learn about bacteria, oxygen and the science of preserving food.
Finally, some biology that really accounts to everyday life. I don't know about you, but in my 38 years of life I haven't needed to know by memory the anatomy of a plant cell. But why and now we need to can food properly to preserve it? Now THATS important.
We started by making applesauce, and thankfully apples were on sale this week (otherwise it would have been the most expensive freaking jar of applesauce in existence).
The boys (particularly Calen, who had apple chopping duty) was annoyed to the tee about how tedius peeling and then chopping fives apples and then cooking them, all for one jar of applesauce.
Yes, but if it was 1823, and winter was coming, it would be worth that work to have fruits and vegetables in January.
With Calen having done the prep part, Camden did the actual canning.
I have little to no experience with canning, so hopefully in a month when we open this applesauce, it'll be edible. For our control of this experiment, we have an open tupperware of the same applesauce, which will likely be very scary coming up here.
I guess we'll see soon, won't we?
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