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Remember when I made applesauce and canned it last January? Ooooooh! That was some mighty delicious applesauce. And pretty easy to make. Of course I complicated things by canning the results. (We ate all that applesauce up way before it would have spoiled w/o canning.) But still, it’s an easy and cheap way to get some wholesome, homemade applesauce.
Well, It’s going around the blogs. If you read very many mom blogs then likely you have read about someone making applesauce in the crockpot.
I had to try it.
My grocery had red delicious on sale in the 5# bag for $1.99. I had to make applesauce! Had to!
All I did was peel the whole bagful and use my handy slicer/corer on ‘em and toss ‘em into the crockpot. I added a bit of water, maybe a cup and a half and about a capful of lemon juice.. Turned the smarty-pants-pot on high and forgot about it for a few hours. After about 3 hours, I checked it and gave it a stir, then left it alone for a couple more hours. Way too easy!
When the apples were nice and mushy I used my potato masher and mashed ‘em right in the pot. Then I put the sauce into quart jars and put ‘em in the fridge.
Th-th-th-that’s all, folks!
The bottom line is that I paid $1.99 for the apples, got 2 quarts of homemade applesauce out of it! Lovely!
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Hi Jill,
You sound like a very smart granny! I’m takin’ notes!
My little greadson will love this recipe. He can not get enough applesauce. I am going to let him make it.
Crocks ROCK!
Now THIS is MY kind of recipe!!!
Throw i in the crockpot and let it do its thing!! Thank you for sharing!!! 
ps – love that picture with the masher!
GREAT!!! EASY!!! and SIMPLE!!! recipe for applesauce.
Geri
Hi Shirley,
I didn’t stand for the peeling, I sat at my kitchen table.
Now that’s simple. Didn’t realize it was so easy. I’m going to get one of those old fashioned apple peelers. I hate standing and peeling thing!
Homemade applesauce beats factory made by far. Love it. The factory stuff is always so tart or bitter or something. Likey my homemade ‘sauce.
I can sympathize with you on the amount they can eat. I wondered why I bothered to process at least one whole canner full. I didn’t know they liked it that much (never did like the store bought stuff that much). That’s why we had to buy more apples and do a second round.
I’ll have to try that sometime!
Incredibly easy! No excuse to but the factory made kind ever again!
We were definitely thinking along the same lines…so easy and yummy, isn’t it?