Every few years, our family makes applesauce. This year it was a big shabang!! It was my mom, myself, my cousin, my big sis, my grandparents, and of course my adorable little nephew. (He helped eat the apples) It’s so much more fun when you do something like that, to do it with a bunch of people. 1. because many hands make light work, and 2. because everything is more fun when you’re doing it with family or friends.
First we washed the apples. They weren’t sprayed, but they’re outside obviously so they get dirty. We just soaked them in water, and that’s about it. The next step is quartering the apples, so they cook faster.
Next, you cook them in water in a big roaster pan or stock pot, or whatever big pan you can get. Cook them until the skins start peeling off…then you know they’re nice and soOFFTTTT.
That’s my big sis, and my grandma working hard cutting up the apples.
This is my cousin and grandpa working together making the applesauce. My cousin is smashing them into the grinder, and grinding them. My grandpa is scooping it into the bowl to make more room for applesauce, and to make conversation! Haha
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Homemade, Healthy, Applesauce
Equipment
- Tomato Saucer
Ingredients
- 2-4 Bushels Apples (As many as you want)
Instructions
- Quarter enough apples to fill a roaster or pan you'll be using.
- Fill a Roaster or pan with water a fill with quartered apples, and turn on high heat.
- Cook the apples until they're softened enough to grind up. (Usually when the peel start pulling away from the apple)
- With a strainer, scoop the apples out of the pan and into the saucer. (Make sure you have a bowl in the back for the garbage coming out, and one on the side for applesauce)
- Fill jars with applesauce, and put lids on.
- Hot water bath them to seal them. It would be best to do it while the jars are still hot so it goes quicker. (If you don't know to how to hot water bath them, just google 'hot water bathing applesauce')