Applesauce
Yes, I do love my slow cooker. Especially when it can save hours of time making something that might otherwise be labor intensive, like applesauce. This easy recipe inspired me to try my hand at applesauce this fall, when apples are at their peak and the prices are so low that you just can’t resist buying a half peck or a peck or – oh, what the heck – a whole bushel of apples. So needless to say, I needed to do something with all those apples, and the applesauce turned out divine. I used my handy dandy hand crank apple machine to cut the peeling, slicing and coring time down to a minimum, and the slow cooker took care of the rest.
An added benefit: the house also smelled divine, with the baking apple and cinnamon scent wafting throughout the house. The air was almost edible.
- Jars of Applesauce
Since there was more than we could ever use, I then jarred some of it to keep for over the winter. It’ll make a great sauce for pork chops, or just a nice treat with vanilla ice cream on those cold winter days.
I love homemade applesauce! It is amazing how easy it actually is to make isn’t it? What my kids and I do with the leftover jars (because you’re right, it makes so much!) is give them out as gifts to teachers and friends over the holidays. They make great hostess gifts too.
I like the photo with the cinnamon in the front. I am going to have to try making some apple sauce this year.
I just quartr the apples put them in the crock pot and set them on low , let them cook while i work, then put it all through a food mill[ i think that is what it is] mine is old old old. or stir it through a seice, u get all the goodness of the whole apple, then i put 1/2 the sauce back in a crock pot add a little sugar, cinnamon, nut meg and allspice, to taste, and cook it down to the thickness I like, put it hot in jelly jars, the next bathh of sauce cooked in pot [applebutter] I cook real thick add double spices and put also in jelly jars and use this in place of liquid in cake baked i spring form pan, also done in crock pot, I baked my first loaf of bread today also in crock pot. this is our favorite winter fare. Hope U try it too.
katkhan