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Homemade Applesauce

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Prep: 0 min Cook: 0 min Difficulty: medium

Categories: Dessert, Sauce, Gluten-free

Tags: boiled, easy, inexpensive, kid-friendly, naturally gluten-free, recipes for applesauce, recipes for dessert, recipes using apple, recipes using ground cinnamon, recipes using white sugar, recipes with metric units, recipes without servings

Source: Wikibooks contributors (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook%3AHomemade_Applesauce)

Adapted: Imported and reformatted by HowManyCookies from the cited Wikibooks revision.

Source revision: https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook%3AHomemade%20Applesauce&oldid=4524778

License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) · Wikibooks contributors

Ingredients

  • 3 pounds (1300 g / about 8 cups) peeled, cored, and chopped apples
  • ½ cup water
  • 6 tablespoons white granulated sugar
  • 6 tablespoons sugar substitute
  • Juice from 1 lemon (about 1 tablespoon)
  • ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon or apple pie spice

Directions

  1. Put chopped apples in a large non-stick saucepan. Stir in water, sugar, sugar substitute, and lemon juice.
  2. Bring mixture to a boil, cover, and reduce heat to medium-low.
  3. Cook until apples are tender (about 10 minutes).
  4. Use a potato masher to break cooked apples up into a nice purée.
  5. Stir in ground cinnamon or apple pie spice.
  6. Serve warm or cold.

Notes

Use whatever variety of apples you prefer.