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My mom is always finding deals on produce. She traded a few jars of jams and jellies for for huge boxes of honey crisp apples for us. She knew moving down from Alaska in mid September, we wouldn't have time to gather produce. Honey crisp are not a great keeper but they make awesome applesauce. So with our new Ball sauce maker, the Sauceanator 9000, we did up 35 quarts of applesauce yesterday and today. Pure applesauce, no sugar needed. Don't get any on your forehead or your tongue will give you a TBI trying to get at it.

Nice! Honeycrisps should make excellent applesauce.

That's a lot of pork chops to go with.

That looks yummy! How did you core/peel the apples?

Dang mart! That’s a lot of applesauce.
It should last you 6 months or more. 😉

when I was a kid up on the farm in SW Virginia, I would help put up cases of applesauce. Apples were Virginia Beauties, and the orchard had a lot of the trees.
Wish we had had that machine back then. lol

Cool beans Mart

Made a few quarts this year already and need to make more. Still have 1/2 box of Cosmic Crisp I got at a decent price. Cross between Enterprise and Honey Crisp I think. They are keeping well, I bring them in from the porch when it gets well below freezing or above 65 or so.

Going to cut some up to freeze for apple pie too.

Bought them back in early-mid Oct and had one Monday on my way to the big town. Still crisp and not mealy. I hate a mealy apple.

Nope. The sauce maker does it all. We quarter or cut them into eighths if they’re real big, remove the stem and blossom and cook till just soft. The sauce maker separates the seeds, cores and skin.

Good to know! I’ll show this to my wife. Most years she makes cinnamon applesauce with apples from our trees, but I’ve had to do the “clamp the apple corer /peeler to the table” thingie then quarter slice the results.

What brand sauce maker do you have? I can’t quite read the label.

I have a similar saucer but it's hand cranked and SLOW. 70 jars in the pantry. There are still apples on the trees but I've picked all we can possibly use and it'll be in the teens the next few nights. Now I need to get going on drying what I have in the cooler.

I admire that.

Good job

Im not an applesauce person but I would probably come to appreciate the homemade kind

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Awesome work! I discovered last year that there is an orchard up a canyon nearby, and we've gone and picked our own apples a couple times now. Several 5 gal buckets end up producing lots of apple sauce.

I get a kick out of doing what my grandmother did out of necessity to feed her ten kids from their farm.

That applesause maker looks great.

We use one of these, that will clamp to a cutting board, then cut the sliced pieces into quarters and cook adding sugar and cinnamon to taste.

we like chunky applesauce

Do you have to add anything like citric acid powder or lemon juice to help stabilize it?

We don't

Haven't done it in a couple years, but my wife used to make applesauce every year. I was the slave turning the handle on the food mill for hours to separate the sauce from the skins, seeds, and cores... love natural applesauce...

Citric acid is that what the Nazis took when they committed suicide?? Nugget

We use one of those too, but take the skinning blade off.

We don't mind the peels in our sauce or pie or dried slices.

It's a Ball Freshtech Harvest Pro. Mom got hers at BiMart, a local department store. She ordered mine from Amazon. She bought one for her grandson and his wife at a Farm and Home store in Iowa.

It can make fine or chunky applesauce or tomatoes, etc. We did a bunch or tomatoes through it for tomato sauce/juice last week.

Yummy, love me some homemade applesauce with cinnamon.

Mom does a pork chop bake that is superb!