Homemade Apple Sauce

By Addie

This may be one of the best things I’ve ever made. Warm, sweet and cinnamon-y. It made the house smell wonderful while it was cooking.

I altered the recipe on A Year of Slow Cooking. I used more apples, more brown sugar, more cinnamon. I also used apple juice instead of water. I will be making this again, it was so delicious.

Ingredients

• 13 small apples (about 1 bag)
• 1 lemon, juice of
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 4 Tablespoon. brown sugar
• 1/3 cup apple juice

Preparation

Step 1

Peel, core and slice the apples. Toss them into the slow cooker with all the other ingredients. Give it a stir, then turn the heat to low for 4-6 hours.

After the apples had cooked this long, I took the lid off and gave them a stir. They looked kind of watery and I wasn’t sure it would really turn into applesauce. But the apples were very tender. I took a whisk and stirred them vigorously until the apples started falling apart. I ended up with chunky applesauce that was delicious. I let it continue to cook until I had dinner ready.

This amount of apples makes 4-6 servings, depending on how many times you go back for seconds and thirds.