Apple pie filling in a jar

4 1/2 cups Sugar
1 cup cornstarch
2 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp nutmeg
1 tsp salt
10 cups water
3 tbl lemon juice
5 1/2 - 6 lbs apples = (24 cups peeled, cored, & sliced apples)

In a large pan blend first four ingredients. Add salt then stir in water. Cook and stir until clear, thick and bubbling sort of foamy. Add raw apples to syrup as it is cooking and heat through. Add lemon juice. Pack apples in jars leaving one inch head space. fill with hot syrup. To seal process quarts twenty minutes in a hot water bath. Yields - seven quarts