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Recipe: Mom's Applesauce

This recipe is “Mom Tested” and “Poppo Approved” (and is one of Mom’s favorites as evidenced by the smears on the recipe card).

You will need:

Large pot (big enough to hold apples and water)

Food mill (a counter-top, hand-operated model; please visit http://www.thefind.com/kitchen/info-professional-food-mill for an example of a food mill if you don’t already have one)

4-cup Pyrex measuring cup (or any 4-cup bowl that is safe for hot liquids)

Large mixing bowl

Blender

Ingredients:

3 pounds Apples, a mix of varieties (all of the following, or at least three): sweet, tart, green, yellow, red

2-1/2 cups Water

1 tablespoons Lemon Juice

1 teaspoon Vanilla

1/2 teaspoon Cinnamon

1/4 teaspoon Nutmeg or Cloves

Sugar or artificial sweetener

Directions:

Remove stems and seeds from apples, but do not peel. Cut into small pieces. Put apple pieces into large pot.

Add water and cook over low-to-medium heat. Do not allow to boil.

Stir occasionally.

Cook until apples are mushy-soft.

Drain the liquid from the cooked apples into Pyrex measuring cup (or bowl that is safe for hot liquids). Set aside for later use.

Grind the apples (fruit flesh and skins---basically, everything that is in the pot after you drain the liquid) through the food mill. Catch everything in a large bowl. This is the applesauce.

Scrape apple skin residue out of the food mill as needed. Set aside. Continue until you have processed everything in the pot.

Put apple skin residue into a blender. Add just enough of the set-aside liquid to cover and puree as fine as possible. Most of taste of the apples is in the skins and this will capture that rich flavor.

Put the apple skin puree through the food mill (to remove all final skin pieces) and add to the applesauce in the bowl.

Add remaining set-aside liquid to the applesauce until you have the consistency you desire. Less liquid makes firmer applesauce. More liquid makes looser applesauce.

Add remaining ingredients.

Sweeten to taste with sugar or artificial sweetener.

Mom’s Applesauce makes delicious Mom’s Applesauce Cake. Get your free recipe at: http://www.jansdough.com/Poppo/ApplesauceCake.htm.

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