Carl & Kay Depew
9-10 apples peeled and cut into eighths.1/2 cup apple juice
1/4 - 1/2 cup sugar
¾ tsp. Cinnamon
you could also add ¼ tsp. of nutmeg or cloves or
both…
OH, also some Fruit Fresh to keep the apples from
turning brown while you are peeling them all....
Place apples and juice into a 2 quart casserole. Cover and microwave for 7 minutes (if you want smooth and use a blender) or 10 minutes (if you want chunky and use a potato masher).
SMOOTH
Put apples and remaining ingredients into blender and mix until smooth.
CHUNKY
Use a potato masher to mash apples. Mix in remaining ingredients.
Place applesauce in plastic zip lock bags and freeze until ready to use. Makes 6-7 cups
UPDATE
- July, 2005: I now use an immersion blender to "mash" the
apples and I'm using an apple peeler/slicer/correr.
I place
the apples in cold water with fruit fresh until I have 9 or
10 and then put them into the bowl for the microwave.
This year we didn't use any nutmeg or cloves. I did, though,
use 1/2 cup of sugar and 1 whole teaspoon of cinnamon.
Kay tastes every batch and she thought it was a little
better with more sugar and cinnamon. So start
with what we show and then add whatever your taste buds say
it needs.
UPDATE
- August 2008
When I tasted the apple
sauce, after "mashing" them with the immersion
blender, it seemed they were a little more tart than past
years so I added a little more sugar.
1/10/2010 Still have a few packages of sauce from '08 but will have to make more this year.
August 3, 2012
Well, I wasn't able to buy two lugs
of apples. They don't use those wooden boxes anymore so I had to
buy two "boxes".
Whatever..... The house smells soooo good with all those apples in
the kitchen. And we are full of pizza bagels.... Now to get ready
and then two days of cookin' up a mess o'sauce. Day
1 60 apples = 17 cups. Day two, 100 apples
= 20 C in freezer more to go
November, 2016 still making apple
sauce...