apples cooking
I was at a loss. I had baked and cooked, and couldn’t figure out what else to do. I lamented to my sweetie, when she called, that I still had all these apples left, and I didn’t want them to go bad.
Why don’t you make apple sauce? she asked. That is what you usually do when you want to use up apples.
Ah, of course, and it was the simplest recipe in the world. I had gotten if from the Jewish Holiday Treats recipe book. I make it for Passover every year, because it tastes so good with latkas. It is called Kids’ Applesauce, probably because it is so easy. It takes 2 pounds of apples, which is, I don’t know, about seven of them, 1/2 cup of water, 3 tablespoons of sugar and juice of one lemon. I usually add a tablespoon of cinnamon. Throw all that into a pot and cover and simmer over low heat.
Once the apples are soft, which takes a half an hour or so, although I am usually doing something else in the kitchen, so I don’t really time it, I just go by the smell and the sound. Anyway, once it they are soft, you turn off the flame, and take a potato masher, and mush them up. I suppose i could use a food mill, but when I started making these, I didn’t have a food mill.
Applesauce done
Once it is done you can eat it or store it, so store it I did. It make the whole kitchen smell so good, and I could still smell it in the morning when I got up. Too bad I didn’t have any latkes to eat it with.
