Quote Originally Posted by BleeckerSt_Girl View Post
Yes, fresh apple sauce is great! (like your partner makes)

We are canning many jars so we can both give as Xmas presents and also have some last throughout the winter. Even canned in jars, our chunky apple sauce made from orchard fresh local apples is so much better than what we buy canned from the supermarket the rest of the year. The apples are best in the Fall, for sure.
Two years ago we made several gallons as well, plus apple butter....
Mmmmm apple butter. And healthy stuff ..at least the stuff I buy from Mennonite area in Kitchener-Waterloo area (100 kms. west of Toronto) since it has no sugar. I actually find apple butter a rare commodity in stores here on the Northwest coast.

Xmas presents sounds like an excellent idea.
It wouldn't work here at home...he eats it up. He decided to make his own after calculating cost of unsweetened applesauce from the grocery store. He piles in grated ginger root, nutmeg, cinnamon, cardamon and anise, sometimes all or some of these spices. It works and does taste great. Does it regular that it's down to a fine proficient art...seems to chop up the apples and have this large pot of hot spicy applesauce done under 1 hr.