Recipe: How to Make Homemade Applesauce
Earlier in the week I was given more free apples than we could eat. And since all of the apples had minor blemishes, I knew we needed to either eat the apples right away or figure out how to preserve them. So I did the first thing that came to mind. I made applesauce. The kids flipped out {apparently it’s been entirely too long since I’ve made fresh applesauce}.
Here is my simple recipe.
Ingredients
5 – 6 lbs Apples {I used a combination of Cameo, Braeburn, Fuji, Jonagold, Gala, Jonathan and Mcintosh apples}
1/4 cup sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 cup of water
Directions
Wash and quarter apples. Place apples in a 5 quart dutch oven, cover with 1 cup of water. Place lid on the pot and simmer for 20 minutes, stirring occasionally.
When the apples are soft, remove from heat and process through a food mill. Discard pulp.
Add cinnamon and sugar to warm applesauce {if desired} and stir.
Enjoy!
Fresh applesauce will keep in the refrigerator for about 5 days. If you don’t think you’ll go through it that fast, you can always freeze it.
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My family lives for fall apple picking season so we can make bunches and bunches of applesauce using a very similar, easy recipe. Now if I could only figure out how to get some reclaimed produce in the DC area to get us through the other seasons….
Mavis, I just stumbled across your blog – I don’t even remember how I found it – but is my new favorite place to visit! Your lifestyle is so inspiring – I love how you get seem to derive more pleasure from your free fruit and a good shopping deal than most people would get out of spending 100X as much (well, 100X zero would still be zero, but you get what I mean).
I am really enjoying reading through all the old posts – and I’m wondering if you have ever written one about your “coupon M.O.,” if you will. I have never been a “couponer” because I always suspected most coupons are for processed foods that I wouldn’t buy anyway. But you seem to feed your family very healthily, and I was literally drooling over your well stocked pantry – - – I have been building a stockpile of basics, but I can see how I could build it far more quickly with coupons, rather than waiting for the weekly sales at my local supermarkets (I am on the east coast, and mostly shop at A&P, Shoprite and Trader Joe’s). If you have written about your approach, maybe you could direct me to that post???
Thanks so much for your wonderful blog and generous posts!
I have enjoyed following you here from Fabulessly Frugal. I have made this before with excess pears, you don’t need sugar because they are sweet on their own, and it’s amazing with a little ginger with your cinnamon.
Thanks for the tip! If I have extra pears I’m going to try this.