Apple Pie filling modified? Need advice

[Dace]

Annmarie posted an apple pie filling that I would like to make. My favorite apple pie recipe calls for pouring caramel sauce over the top and into the holes in the top crust...it is delish!
I wonder if I can add hot caramel sauce to the apple pie filling prior to canning? It is brown sugar, butter and heavy cream. Can anyone give me some advice?

 

[patandchickens]

I sure wouldn't, unless you're going to pressure can it (and I don't know what that would do with the apples). The only reason that apple pie filling can be waterbath-canned is that there is virtually nothing in it besides apples, water and sugar, thus it is acidic enough (possibly with a leetle bit of help) to avoid botulism risk. Something with butter and cream in it I would SERIOUSLY doubt would be acidic enough.

JMHO, good luck,

Pat

 

[Dace]

Great, thanks Pat
Guess I'll skip it!

 

[coopy]

You might be able to freeze it. But then you want to watch that it doesn't crystalize and turn to sugar. Hope that make sense to you.
I wouldn't can it either.
Contact your county extension agency and see what they have to say about it.