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Showing posts with label Apples. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Apples. Show all posts

Monday, October 28, 2013

All Natural Applesauce


We were at Royal Oaks Apple Orchard recently and bought a bushel of windfall apples.  Today, I finally had a morning to turn them into applesauce.  The kids quickly took the slicing and dicing over and I did the dishes.  I forgot how easy....and delicious this is!


We sliced 30-35 apples with an apple slicer, we also left the skins on.  Then, we chopped them into chunks with a chopper.


Add them to a large pot with 2-3 cups of water, 1/4 cup apple cider vinegar and 1/2 cup brown sugar.  


Cook on med-low heat until tender.  Add 2-3 Tbsp. of cinnamon.  Put in small batches through a food processor.  Pour into your sterilized jars and top with lids.


Our first jar didn't make it to the pantry, but was eaten by some sneaky monkeys ;)


I add 2 cups of blueberries to the last bit for blueberry-applesauce.  It was so good :)


This batch made 11 pints of homemade applesauce.