2024 - What I did today

Stewed apples this morning. There was far more than P would eat in a week and I've no room in the freezer so I've bottled some in jam jars. It took me back to the mid 70s when Pand I had just bought our first bungalow. It had a really bountiful apple tree in the very small back garden. I used to stew the apples (I don't think we had a very big freezer, if we had one at all) then bottle the dollop into Kilner jars. They would fill the under bench storage in the kitchen and last P all year.  I have no idea what happened to my Kilner jars. Maybe in a misguided clearing out session they were disposed of. I have my regrets about that. See decluttering is not always a good thing.

I've always frozen my stewed apples never thought of putting them in jars       I've made jams and chutney  but never stewed apples. 
Do  have you got any tips  please ?

I'm trying to remember what I used to do with kilners. I can't remember water baths or anything, so I believe all I did was stew up the apple, sterilise the jars in the oven, and the rings and seals in boiling water, then pot up like you would a jam or chutney.   This last leek I didn't have any 2lb jars so filled up several 1lb  saved jars and sealed with their own screw tops. The tops have popped so I'm hoping they'll keep. It worked with hot blackberry couli. Time will tell. Grandma used to bottle everything and the pantry was lined with large jars of this and that.  I can't remember her even having a fridge!