Simple Apple Sauce

Simple Apple Sauce

Hello my sons!

Apple Sauce

The weather was perfect this last weekend and a trip to the Georgia mountains to pick apples sounded like heaven. The apple trees were heavy with beautiful red apples. They tasted like late sunny summer days, fresh and crisp! I love picking summer fruit, it was a great day!

Red Apples

Beautiful Georgia Apples
Beautiful Georgia Apples

Granny and Grandpa Mack always had fruit trees, or bushes growing in their yard. I remember picking strawberries, red currents, black berries, raspberries and goose berries, peaches, apricots, plums, cherries, pears and apples… I picked a lot of apples growing up!

One summer Granny had a huge bag of fresh BC cherries…. I mean a HUGE bag. She was planning on canning them. That summer it was my cousin Jayne and my turn to spend a month with Granny and Grandpa (HANDS DOWN best month of the whole year!). We needed to drive from where we lived in the Okanagan to Granny and Grandpas house on the lake in Moyie BC. It was about a 7 hour drive normally, only not that day! There was road construction or something going on and so we were stuck in a huge line of cars on a windy road on some Rocky Mountain pass somewhere between the two points.

Jayne and I ate at least a third of that bag of cherries with Granny fussing the whole time how sick we were going to make ourselves. Jayne and I would see if we could spit the cherry pit and hit either the car in front or the car in back with it! Which was probably a much better way of passing the time then what we were doing before we were stopped in traffic…. We had been entertaining ourselves by pressing our lily white 8 year old butts to the window of the camper cabin over-hang to flash all the oncoming traffic!

What does any of this have to do with apple sauce you ask?

Nothing, what an odd question.

Apple Sauce

Simple Apple Sauce

Yummy and easy!
Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Total Time 1 hour
Course Treat

Ingredients
  

  • 8-10 whole Apples I like to use hard and tart apples, like pink lady or granny smith.
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 2 tbsp lemon juice I always use fresh lemon juice
  • 1/2 tsp nutmeg use fresh nutmeg, the taste is so much better
  • 1 tsp cinnamon
  • 3/4 Cup Water

Instructions
 

  • Peel and core apples and cut into quarters.
  • Place them in a sauce pan with the water, sugar and lemon juice then bring to a boil then turn the heat down slightly and simmer 30 minutes to break them down and get them to thicken.
  • Take off the heat and stir in the nutmeg and cinnamon, if using.

2 Comments

    • Hi! Thank you so much for asking that! I forgot to include that in the list of ingredients!

      Cheers!
      Cyndi

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