It’s Fall!! I love fall so much. Not only does it have my favourite holiday – Halloween – but it is also filled with yummy comfort foods and cozy sweaters. So, to launch this fall season off I want to share with you my trick to making Apple Sauce and Apple Cider.
Enjoy!!
Prep time: 10-15 mins Cook time: 3 hrs Total time: 3.5 hrs
Ingredients:
6-7 Apples (Royal Gala or Spartan)
4-5 Cups Water
1/4 Cup Sweetener (Brown or White Sugar, Honey)
2 Cinnamon Sticks
Items you’ll need:
1 Crock Pot
1 Glass bowl or pot
1 Cup measuring cup
1/4 Cup measuring cup
Knife
Potato Masher
Cutting Board
Spatula
Strainer
Jug and a glass jar (Mason Jar)
Instructions:
Chop and peel all the apples (6-7), place them in the crock pot with 1/4 cup of sweetener and 2 cinnamon sticks. Add the 4-5 cups of water until apple pieces are bobbing or there is a faint layer of water over the apples. Mix everything together in the crock pot before putting on the lid and setting the pot to high. Let cook for 3 hours, or until apples are soft enough to crush with a fork.
Once apples are soft enough, use a potato masher to press the apples into a pulp. Use strainer and glass bowl or pot to separate the pulp and liquid. Press pulp in the strainer to make sure as much liquid is removed as possible. Place pulp in Mason Jar.
You may have to strain the pulp and liquid 2-3 times until cider is clear of large apple pieces. Store apple pulp in Mason Jar and apple cider in a container of your choice, let cool before putting them in the fridge.
You have now made apple cider and apple sauce. Congratulations!
Makes: 1 large Mason Jar of Apple Sauce and 4-5 cups of Apple Cider.
Note: I was contemplating on adding this video but some of you may find it helpful… while I just find it embarrassing. That crock pot has died since I made this video and my hair is no longer that long. A lot happens in a year… but hey if one of you finds it helpful it is worth posting it.
September 25, 2016 at 9:17 pm
Yum yum! I love Fall and this is one of my reasons why. ^.^ Nice recipe!
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September 25, 2016 at 10:05 pm
Thanks. I’m thinking of sharing my sweet potato soup recipe next. 🙂
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September 26, 2016 at 12:50 am
Oo! I love sweet potato!
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September 26, 2016 at 1:27 am
I do to. You can also replace the sweet potato with pumpkin if you prefer. Both are delicious. 🙂
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September 26, 2016 at 12:14 pm
Oh my gosh! All of that sounds amazing! I love Fall flavors. ^.^ (but have no idea how to make anything fall-related)
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September 26, 2016 at 1:38 pm
I didn’t know how to make fall things a few years ago but between YouTube and Google I started building my fall recipes. XD
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September 27, 2016 at 1:51 am
Haha! Sounds awesome! I’ll have to try these resources and maybe actually make the Pinterest recipes I pin. :p
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September 27, 2016 at 3:35 am
I need to do that… I haven’t used any of my Pinterest recipes yet. XD
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September 27, 2016 at 1:01 pm
Bahaha! I think I’ve used a couple, but I’m too lazy to get all the random ingredients needed for many of the recipes.
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September 27, 2016 at 1:19 pm
Same. Most meals are made with whatever I have in the house. I only went out of the way to get all the ingredients for the soup because I really wanted soup. The Apple cider is also made with things I had left over from other cooking projects. XD
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September 25, 2016 at 10:57 pm
And here we are just back from having picked a bushel of apples from a local orchard. I was looking for a recipe.
Thanks!
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September 25, 2016 at 11:49 pm
No problem. It takes time but it is yummy. 🙂
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March 9, 2017 at 10:21 pm
We love apples year-round here, in Southern California. Looking forward to trying your recipe for homemade applesauce…my last batch was a bit disappointing. 🙂
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March 10, 2017 at 9:08 am
Hopefully the next batch works out. 🙂
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