Applesauce

Not only do I love the taste of homemade applesauce, but I love the smell of it as it wafts throughout the house. My girls do not like store bought applesauce anymore, it's homemade or nothing.

                                                                                                                                                

APPLESAUCE 

(serves 6)

Ingredients:

*5 pound bag of apples, peeled, cored, and chopped

(Golden Delicious, Fuji, Mcintosh, Granny Smith, Jonathan)

I finding mixing a couple different types of apples make for a much better tasting applesauce.

*1 1/2 cups water

*1/2 tablespoon cinnamon or 1 cinnamon stick

Directions:

~Place all ingredients in a medium sized saucepan.

~Bring to a boil.

~Reduce heat, and simmer for 30-35 minutes.

~Remove from heat, remove cinnamon stick if used.

~Mash with a potato masher or if you like no lumps run through a food mill.

Variation:

`Add a few pears to cook down with the apples.

`Add 1 cup of crushed strawberries cook with the apples.

`Add 1 teaspoon of pumpkin pie spice when you are done cooking the applesauce.

Helpful Hint: Apples are like potatoes and once you peel them, they brown rather quickly. Put a little lemon or lime juice in a bowl of water and put your peeled fruit into the water while you finish peeling apples.