Apple Sauce - American Recipe

Apple Sauce

🌍 American, American Home Cooking Difficulty: ●○○○○

🍳 Equipment: Vegetable-knife, Covered saucepan, Tablespoon, Colander, Potato-masher

Simple apple sauce prepared in the traditional American way.

Ingredients

• 6 medium-sized apples
• ¾ cup sugar
• 1½ cups water

Method

1. Cut — the apples in eighths, peel, and cut away the core.
2. Put — the apples in a saucepan, and add the water.
3. Cover — the saucepan, set it over the fire, and let simmer slowly about twenty minutes.
4. Take — from the fire, drain off most of the water, mash the apples through a colander into a bowl, and add the sugar.
5. Put — the apple sauce back in the saucepan, set over the fire, and let it cook slowly about five minutes.

Tags: sugar, apple · Source: The Plain Sailing Cook Book (1922)

Notes

One-half teaspoon of spice or the juice of half a lemon may be added, if desired. Apple sauce is usually served cold, but should be hot if served with roast pork.