I'm from Denmark, and I just found yuor channel. I am so impressed . You have learned me more in 10 videos, than I learned from other homsteads the last 4 years. 3 rivers homestead are also so fantastick, but you have some interesting small and smart tips. Sorry for my bad english, but thank you so much for a fantastic cannel. Be proud of your self. Lovely family and such a humble and wise personalety.❤ . Årg.1944 😅

I grew up on homemade and from scratch...I was always skinny and healthy and very active...it wasn't until I tried to diet and started eating different "diet" stuff that I started gaining weight and feeling sick....I'm done with the "diet" and what corporate America is trying to sell us and making us sick....back to basics! Love your channel!

My mom was into all the new convenience foods of the 60’s. So, I didn’t grow up learning how to can foods. I taught myself by reading; however, you have taught me more than reading could. The biggest problem I would have with canning pie filling was having it boil out of some of the jars. Watching you has shown me what I can do to resolve that! Thank you.😊

I love what you said about not worrying about the white flour and sugar in your from scratch meals. I feel the absolute same. I buy nothing from the store that is prepackaged or pre-prepared. So I don't feel bad about my kids eating flour and sugar in the form of cakes, pies, cookies and muffins.

Ruthann you are the domestic queen of KZfaq. I have watched all your videos now... Some several times to really learn what you are teaching us out here. I Always look forward to your new videos and what wealth they hold.

I absolutely LOVE your thoughts about ingredients and nutrition. I've been binge watching your videos, and they are wonderful! You are a breath of fresh air!

I could almost taste those pies. I am learning so much from you. Thank you for taking your time to show us so many different things. Cooking, gardening, canning, etc

Oohhh! I need to can apple pie filling again! We use it, not just for pie, but for apple dumplings and cobbler too. It is such a pleasure to watch someone working in the kitchen who is so practiced and adept.

I love your perspective on life….homemaking, child-rearing, spirituality and more…

🙌🏾Praise God I'm so glad I found you all! It's just been about two weeks and I am thoroughly enjoying all I'm learning & being gently reminded of. Thank you! God Bless you and your family!❤

My kids never saw "snack foods" like wee packet of potato chips, or tiny boxes of apple juice until the went to school. Until then if I didn't make it they likely didn't eat it. I had no worries about additives or colours or anything else they may be eating. At school they were particularly impressed with cookie bars, the packing being sparkly and had a movie character on the front. They both said inside the pretty wrapper it both looked and tasted like cardboard, and refused to trade from their lunchboxes again.

My daughters friend has blessed us with many apples and pears. I have learned so much from this video, I’m practically speechless. I’ve seen that there are tools that would help me in baking as well as the actual canning. What I took from this the most was what you said about consuming our food and emotional well being. I needed to hear that because I truly miss baking goodies and sharing them with family and friends. I’ve been low carb and keto for several years but miss cooking the way I use to cook. With this economy not doing well, I see myself going back to eating the foods that sustained us in the past. Thank you for opening my eyes to what truly matters, and that is our love for one another and making each other happy through the foods we make from scratch. God bless.

Just discovered your channel today. Don't thank us for watching. We thank YOU for sharing your knowledge. Love your channel. ❤

It really made me smile to see you use your apron on the hot jar. You are my kinda gal!

God is good! You are a blessing! Thank you.

What you said about cooking from scratch resonates with me. As a shopper with one of the online order companies, I am appalled at all of the processed food that so many people buy. Not only is it loaded with preservatives and sodium, it’s very expensive. I am so thankful for my mother who taught me how to cook from scratch. I love your videos.

I really enjoy your channel!! Thank you for sharing all your knowledge, I’m very inspired by your videos ❤️

You smile with your eyes. Love watching your videos

Also, the basic ingredients we use at home are leaps and bounds higher in quality than most companies would use to make "store bought" items. Our families and friends know that the family cook(s) took time and care in making their meals and treats and so on and they (I know I do) appreciate that effort and care. Thank you for sharing with us. Your pies are beautiful!

So much good common sense. Ruth, I can see your mom and grandma in you. Lol. Same actions in cooking. Love it.

My apple pie filling pie was the hit of our thanksgiving and Christmas dinners. The kids always ask me to bring pies and people told them the apple pie was the best they had ever had! We have 5 jars left from last fall but I asked my husband to bring me home a 40# box of Cosmic Crisp apples and I’m canning more today. My idea was to pay 99C a pound from our local fruit stand for cold storage apples instead of 1.50 or more a pound in the fall. Also since I’m so busy canning in the fall, this makes one canning job done in May!! Thanks You so much! I love cooking from scratch even though the kids are all grown up with families of their own. Love is the best ingredient! The most precious ❤

So true. No chemicals and preservatives....Cooking from scratch is love!

I would love to be your neighbor. But I'm in Texas. So I'll enjoy your cooking and canning from a far. Your doing a wonderful job.

Thank you so so much for teaching what you’ve learned, it’s so appreciated. God Bless you and yours always and forever.

I am really interested in canning. My Mom canned when I was a kid, but I was never involved in the process. I have canned some jam, but that’s about it. We aren’t homesteaders, but I still prefer to cook from scratch. My husband is a former chef, so Hamburger Helper doesn’t quite cut it. 🤣

I totally agree with your point about emotions while consuming the homemade food you create being as or more important as nutritional make-up of the food. And your from scratch food is VERY nutritious, and filled with love! We get hung up in the mechanics of food and nutrition and miss out on the wonderful nurture of sitting with our families, trading stories and laughter.

You inspired me! I canned apple pie filling for the first time. It was so delicious. Now, I’m anxious for winter and holiday pies!

What a wonderful mom you are. These pies and pie filling look delicious and I bet your family just loved them!

I so love your outlook on being joyful while consuming our food. The love and care that goes in to cooking from scratch for people you love, cannot be measured by other standards.

What a joy it was to watch you! And, I couldn’t agree more that there is importance and value in nourishing your soul.

This is such a beautiful honest message about nutrition and wellbeing. Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts and of course the recipe too. 😊❤

This gave us confidence to try our first batch of apple pie filling as a family (my three younger homeschooled children helped). Can't wait to taste it in about a month!

Oh I love this, the specialness of cooking from scratch for our families. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

We are new subs of your channel. My husband and I that is. We have been working our way thru your videos, and we have enjoyed every one of them. I was glad to hear you say that you don't fret over sugar and white flour compared to your families emotional well-being. It's quite refreshing, actually. We aren't much of label watchers at all, but we see the trend that is going on in America!! Also, I just made your sourdough sandwich bread recipe! Very good, and thank you for sharing your life experiences with us.

I think you are a very excellent teacher. You make everything easy to understand! Thank you for your channel.

I just love you and your family! I love that you do things the way you would if there was not a camera rolling!! Keep up the wonderful work!! I know it can’t be easy!

Love your philosophy. I’ve found that food cooked from scratch ie bread, pizza, casseroles etc are much more filling as well. When I make homemade bread or pizza I am fully satisfied after 2 pieces vs a frozen pizza or store bought bread. Plus it tastes SO much better!

🙏🏻🌹🙏🏻 God Is So Good, All The Time 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

That was such a true and heart felt comment I definitely agree!

Love the wisdom of generations you bring to all things of home and homemade ! 😊

This was a lovely video thank you. I’ve saved it to make them next week. And yes, God IS good 🙌

Ruthann just love your videos! You have taught me so much you sweet sister! Look at that little sister, teaching the older sister! Praying for your success and blessings for you and your family. Thank you so much!

Love your thoughts on ingredients and the most important thing that goes into our food! Thanks, Ruthann!

I couldn’t agree more with your attention to the importance of joy in our lives, as well as healthy food.

LOVE your videos. Spent the day the other day binge watching your videos. ABSOLUTLEY LOVE Your garden!!

Love love your video!! So inspiring!!! I’m so excited to go make and can pie filling now. What a testimony to our Lord Jesus!!! Thank you!!!

Loving all your videos! I married into a Ukrainian family. MIL ended up catering after doing the kids wedding meals(and other's). We'd have pie making days...made something close to 20 one time. I'm happy my MIL taught my daughter her pastry making method because no matter how patient and kind she was trying to teach me, I just kept turning out my Mom's "shoe leather" pastry ;). My MIL cuts a pattern into the crusts to say what's in the pies. LOL, my daughter has those in her head too. We don't make many pies anymore, since most of the farm work is machinery based instead of hard hand work but when we do, they are batch made. I just started making pie filling a couple years ago. I was honored to surprise my MIL with a thickener that would work. Our pie making days were from fresh or frozen fruit, sugar, minit tapioca for thickening and pastry. Makes the pie making days much shorter to have the pie filling on the shelves...and much less in the freezer!

I agree with what you were saying about food !!! And yes God is Good!!!

I love watching you cut that crust off. It's obvious that you have done that so many times. God bless

I'm so grateful that you were in Souptember, otherwise I might not have ever found you! My husband & I watch your videos on our TV then I jump on my phone so I can give you a thumbs up and comment. Just love your recipes & teaching methods. Blessings 🙏

Hello! I'm from Western NY and just love watching your videos and learning from you and your family! I definitely want to try the way you made your apple pie filling, the way we did it , it took forever for it to thicken. Yours was so fast! Thank you for sharing all of your knowledge, advice & recipes!

I love your philosophy!

God Bless You Ruth Ann, it’s like you’ve been right alongside me in my kitchen, helping me be better for my husband and five children 🤗 I’m not into sewing yet, so if you could just sell your aprons for those of us that aren’t ready to make our own, I’d appreciate it 😊

I just printed your recipe and I wanted to thank you. I usually have time to relax and watch my absolute favorite person at night, YOU!! I live and farm a small fruit, vegetable and poultry operation not too far away from you folks. I'm in Lena, IL. So I'm just over the county line in the N/W corner of Illinois, and I was thrilled to find your channel RuthAnn. I farm with my youngest daughter, and I am so familiar with all your chores but I do not have a tenth of the fun I see living with those beautiful blessings, your children. Our day is long and we intentionally come together often during our day so we feel connected as family. I wanted to tell you what a wonderful job you and you're family have done, making all of us feel apart of your family. I want to encourage you to keep being the beautiful, blessed mother and woman you are because you my lady, are very special. Just know that with so much suffering in the world, you inspire and motivate us to be better. My sister in Christ, you have given me a gift and it lives in my heart and brings a tear of joy. Thank You, and may our Lord and Savior watch and keep your family safely wrapped in His protection.

I'm new, but i love your channel. Your message is wholesome, and i love learning new things. I began canning a lot of our own foods in January 23, and since then, i have lost 27 lbs, and the hubby is down almost 40 lbs (he gets a lot more steps in his day lol). It was a happy side effect of learning to can and make foods with simple ingredients, and im not at all upset, lol. Have a great week!

I wish you were a relative of mine You have a good heart and a great cook too Thanks for showing us just how you do good at your house. Hopefully you show all of your children this too even the boys Gif bless you and your family

Your Applepie Filling looks great, and I am sure that your Family enjoyed these. Thanks for all your recipes and greetinngs from Germany. God bless you all. 🥰

Very well said. We all need more home canned/cooked meals around the dinner table as a family.

Yum yum yum yum yummmmm! I adore your water bathing videos as I don't have a pressure canner. Please put water bath in the video titles. It would be so helpful. Love from UK x

Thank you so much for sharing your recipe. Thank you so much for the well spoken words. 🙏

Love your philosophy about food! Wonderful!

I made this today. I used 3.50 inch apples (lg.) and halved the thickening spice sauce and it made 4 qts with just a bit left over ( snack) thank you so much , Ruth! I am really happy to be learning from you! I bought the thermagel from your link and I discovered today that included in the package was the gospel of John. I was pleased and grateful. It will go into my bag for disaster prep.

I just made the pie filling following your recipe and it was absolutely perfect! I got 9 quarts of filling and baked one pie right away. Delicious! Thank you!

I love how well you explained this recipe. I’m definitely going to try it out! ❤️ Thank you Ruthann!

You are soooo right with what you said about cooking from scratch!!! I’ve been telling people this for several years now and younger children that the “fast food” and convenience foods shouldn’t even be called food! Even as a child I knew that if a label had ingredients that I couldn’t even pronounce and didn’t have any idea what it was it certainly couldn’t be good for me. Some of the labels have more then 20 ingredients in the list and more then half sound like some sort of chemical. I’ve stopped reading labels years ago because there are no labels on raw ingredients or they just have that one thing listed. That’s how you know you’re cooking from scratch when you aren’t looking at labels and just reading recipes and looking at ingredients. Love your videos!!! Just ordered some clear jel cook type so I can make some pie filling, I’ve never done it before but you inspire me!!!! Thank you, a loyal viewer from Canada❤🥰🙏🏻🇨🇦

Oh RuthAnn, I love you so much. I trust your recipes, and I find so much comfort from your videos.

I love your channel and I too feel the same way about white sugar and white flour people worry about all different foods it's so wonderful to hear a Mama say what you said.❤ I love cooking from scratch for my Family, it always makes me feel so good, like I have done my best for the day.😂Now I am watching your one on canning potatoes, Harrison, did an amazing job! Well Done! ❤❤❤

You taught me something today. I will leave more headspace from now on!!! Thanks

Yum and beautiful results!

Love your videos been doing this for over 30 years and I'm still learning thank you

I really enjoyed your commentary as well as watching your methods of canning and preparing homemade food for your family with love‼ Very beautiful and peaceful‼‼ Thank you for sharing‼😊

My husband clamps the peeler down on my counter. Works great

You absolutely amaze me!

You said a mouth full! The best words I have heard in a long time!!! As usual great video!!!!

I cant stop watching you work your magic. you are amazing! I know your family is proud to have you. God Bless!

That's a handy dandy topper decorative cutter!

this video popped up on the feed and i decided to watch it. My 1st thougt was wow thats a lot of sugar. I started making apple pies for my diabetic dad about 10yrs ago, i noticed you can cut out 3/4 amt of sugar and still have a great apple pie. Looks great. I have to try your thickener. thats a dream just boom and its thick!!! again great video thank you for sharing!!

I am brand new to all things canning. This was the best video I have found yet!! This is going to be my first to try. So excited!

Absolutely beautiful pies!

I love love love your videos and recipes!! You inspire me to do more. Thank you!!!

I am from Michigan. I have been following you through all your canning. Last night I canned Apple pie filling ! It turned out great . Thank you so much for your teachings. I so appreciate your family and farm.

I just love how this woman rolls❤️

I get so much joy and knowledge from watching your videos. Thank you❤

I learn so much from you. Your a wise woman.

Yes! Love is the missing ingredient from processed food! I really deeply appreciate all that you said. Thank you for your ministry ❤.

I love this so much. Those pies look amazing! Thank you for sharing this with everyone.

Amen, I agree. There is such a satisfaction planting, harvesting, and consuming the gardening of fruit and veggies. It's such a blessing to share it with others, especially family. Thx for your wisdom.

What an Awesome Video. The pie filling and pies are beautiful. Thanks and God Bless!🙏🙏

i just made my first pie from my apple pie filling. I canned it following the way this video did it. Its a keeper in my canning routine. This pie was gone pretty quick. one of the best pies I every made. Thank you for sharing. This is the way my mom and grandma cook. Good ole farm living. I love it.

I so enjoy watching you teach. You give use so much extra information with what all you do. I enjoy your background music. God Bless.

You are a breath of fresh air! ❤

I always can my apple pie filling too. I love , love, watching your videos !

You are a blessing to watch. You are the only person I've seen mix the goo sauce with the apples. Gives a better overall coating to the apples. Thank you for sharing.

Can you post your pie crust recipe- I love how it holds together- thank you for your common sense goodness

Those are beautiful. I struggle making this but Im going to try it your way from now on, your way makes way more sense thank you so much for sharing with up. I have learned SO much from you and your family.

Your the greatest on channels thank you you’re a special

Well said! I enjoy watching your videos and listening to the words of wisdom you share!

I found your channel this summer . Looking for a tomato sauce recipe...I grew up on a farm in southern Albert. And what I love is your way of preserving food with out wasting time on extra steps that are not necessary

Looks simple! I will need to try this recipe, thank you!

I absolutely love your videos...they have helped immensely