pegasus216 the apple dumplings are delicious! i had four! still smacking my lips. cup of coffee with it. excellent. and the apple sauce is good. i'm ladling it into containers--we had to get more containers from the dollar store as we were running short and that's a good sign, over 80 containers (bottle of various sizes) of pickles and salsa and i don't know how many apple sauce. as i'm ladling the sauce into containers my wife asks me how's it taste? you know, with that tone of voice that implies all manner of harm? i'd only wiped up a spill with my thumb and ate that. good, i says. containers say they are 3.2 cups. got four of them from what i think is a 9-quart crock pot. big oval thing? you get about half of what starts out as a full crock pot. anyway, my wife says she put some allspice into the sauce by mistake, said good thing it was a spice that could go in there...she thought she was reaching for the apple pie spice. 'bout done for the year then, garden is long done save for carrots still in the ground, apple trees 'bout done, winter coming, we're stocked up, just need to harvest some venison, make jam in another month or so...sooner if i harvest some venison soon. onward and upward.