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How to make Apple Sauce

Wipe, quarter, core, and pare eight tart apples. Make a syrup by boiling seven minutes one cup sugar and one cup water with thin shaving from rind of a lemon. Remove lemon, add enough apples to cover bottom of saucepan, watch carefully during cooking, and remove as soon as soft. Continue until all are cooked. Strain remaining syrup over apples.
(Recipe from 1920's)

Spiced Applesauce

Wipe, quarter, core, and pare eight tart apples. Put in a saucepan, sprinkle with one cup sugar, add eight cloves, and enough water to prevent apples from burning. Cook to a mush, stirring occasionally
Recipe from 1951

Baked Apple Butter

10 lbs apples
1 1/2 quarts cider
1 tablespoon ground cloves
1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
1 tablespoon ground nutmeg
5 lbs of sugar

Peel, core, and quarter apples. Place in a large kettle. Add enough water to cover apples. Simmer until soft. Stir in the cider, cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg and sugar. Pour the mixture into a roasting pan; cover. Bake at 350 until the mixture boils, stir occasionally. Lower heat to 250, and bake 5 hours or overnight. Ladle the apple butter into sterilized jars and seal.
(Recipe from 1974)

Also see the Canning Fruit page

Easy Applesauce Cake Recipe

1/2 cup shortening
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 cup applesauce
1 1/4 cup flour
1 teaspoon cinnamon
pinch of salt
1 teaspoon soda
1/2 teaspoon allspice
1 1/2 teaspoon cocoa

Cream shortening and sugar. Add eggs and applesauce. Add sifted dry ingredients. Mix well. Bake at 350 for 25 minutes. Can be made into a small sheet cake or use a round cake pan. It makes 1 cake.

My Note: If you make a sheetcake, it is not very thick, maybe a 1/2 inch. This cake is suppose to be served in the pan it was baked. Also I didn't have any cocoa, so I added a half of a dry package of Nestle hot cocoa mix as a substitute. And also check the cake after 20 min, just to be sure it doesn't burn.

CREAM CHEESE FROSTING:

1 1/2 cup sifted powdered sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
3 ounces softened cream cheese

Mix well, and frost on cooled cake. Perfect for applesauce or carrot cake too

Applesauce Cake

1 egg
2 c. sugar
1/2 c. shortening
2 c. unsweetened applesauce
1 c. raisins
3 c. flour
2 tsp. soda
1 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. cloves
1 tsp. nutmeg
1/4 c. brown sugar
1/4 c. white sugar
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 c. chopped nuts

Beat egg. Cream sugar and shortening. Add egg to sugar-shortening mixture. Sift flour, soda, cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg. Add sifted dry ingredients to creamed mixture. Add applesauce and raisins. Pour into 9x13 pan. Sprinkle with the following topping before you bake the cake. Bake for 40 minutes in 350 oven.

TOPPING
1/4 c. brown sugar
1/4 c. white sugar
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
Chopped nuts

Mix together the brown sugar, white sugar, cinnamon and nuts.
Recipe From 1998 Platte SD Hospital Recipebook

Easy Applesauce Nut Bread

2 cups flour
3/4 cup sugar
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon soda
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1 cup chopped nuts
1 egg, beaten
1 cup unsweetened applesauce
1/4 cup salad oil

Mix sifted dry ingrediants and nuts. Combine egg, applesauce and oil. Add to first part and stir till just blended. Pour into 5x9 greased loaf pan. Bake at 350 for 30 min.

Applesauce Loaf

1/2 c. shortening
2/3 c. brown sugar, firmly packed
2 eggs
1 c. thick applesauce (sweetened or unsweetened)
2 c. flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. baking soda
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 c. chopped nuts

Mix shortening, brown sugar and eggs together thoroughly. Stir in applesauce. Sift together dry ingredients. Stir into applesauce mixture. Add nuts. Pour in greased 5x10x3 in. bread pan. Bake 50 to 55 min. at 350 degrees.

More applesauce recipes!

Here's a recipe for Spiced Applesauce Cookies

Also see this recipe for Applesauce Brownies