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Suzy Homemaker is alive and well.....



In years past I used to make applesauce in the fall....going to the orchard or maybe to someone's home who had apples they wanted to give away. But this year our neighbors, who just bought an acreage with 200 apple trees, were selling freshly picked apples at a very affordable price. And since I was wanting to make applesauce again this year, I ordered a bushel (that's 40 pounds) of Jonagold apples and dug out my mom's old colander that I remember using when I was a girl.





First...rinse off the apples...




Then quarter and core. I never remove the peels because they contain a lot of the vitamins.




Then toss the apples into a dutch oven with 1/4 to 1/2 cup water; cover and simmer til the apples are soft. The Jonagolds needed to simmer a good 30 minutes.





Next, pour some of the cooked apples into "Mom's" colander and press the apples through the little holes. Oh...the smell in the house is what many candle companies try to capture in their products. But this is the real thing!





The sauce is so smooth and delicious...and sweet. No sugar needed.




Now it waits in our freezer for consumption over the next year. I love partially frozen homemade applesauce with lots of cinnamon. You cannot compete with homemade applesauce.