Ingredients
- 1) 8 medium apples, use a combination of Golden Delicious, Honey Crisp, Fuji, Gala, etc.
- 2) 1 strips of lemon peel
- 3) 1 tsp fresh lemon juice
- 4) 3 inch cinnamon stick or 0.5 teaspoons ground cinnnamon
- 5) 5 teaspoons light brown sugar, unpacked
Steps
- 1) Peel, core, and slice the apples.
- 2) Place them in the slow cooker.
- 3) Add the cinnamon stick, lemon peel, lemon juice and brown sugar.
- 4) Set crock pot to low and cook for 6 hours.
- 5) Stir apples occasionally, apples will slowly become a delicious applesauce.
- 6) Remove cinnamon stick and use an immersion blender to blend until smooth or if you prefer a chunky sauce, leave sauce intact.
Notes
- 1) Sugar can be left out for a sugar free recipe.
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2) Homemade applesauce can be refrigerated for a week to ten days;
it can also be frozen or canned for longer-term storage.