Homemade Apple Sauce
This homemade apple sauce is one of my number one go to recipes and is a perfect combination of apples, brown sugar, cinnamon and butter.
This homemade applesauce is the perfect fall recipe for using up extra apples. While I don’t have an apple tree of my own yet, I’m lucky to get some from my neighbor.
Recently I discovered a nearby orchard where I can pick fresh apples. There’s just something special about bringing home a basket of freshly picked apples and turning them into a cozy batch of applesauce.
Store bought apples work just as well, but if you have the chance to visit an orchard, I highly recommend it. Freshly picked apples always seem to have a little more flavor and make the sauce extra delicious.
Recipe Ingredients
Lets talk ingredients! Here’s everything you’ll need to make this apple sauce.
- Apples- You can use one type or a variety
- Water
- Lemon juice- Freshly squeezed lemons or bottled lemon juice
- Dark Brown Sugar- You can also use light brown sugar if you’d like
- Cinnamon
- Un-Salted Butter
- Vanilla Extract- Pure or artificial
- Salt
See recipe card for quantities.
How to make this recipe
Use these photos as a guide as you move along each step.
- Step 1: Wash, peel, and core apples. Place in a large pot.
- Step 2: Add in the water, lemon juice, sugar and cinnamon. Mix. Bring to a boil then simmer for 30 minutes with the lid on.
- Step 3: Remove from the heat and mash into desired texture, stir in the butter, vanilla and salt.
- Step 4: Store in an airtight container in the fridge. If you want a smoother apple sauce, allow it to chill then add to blender and blend.
Hint: Don’t leave the butter out, its a key ingredient and makes this apple sauce the best! Its a trick I learnt from a cookbook I read from 1910.
Storage
Fridge: After cooling the apple sauce store it in an airtight container or in a mason jar in the fridge for up to 6 days.
Freezing: Once cooled, add to freezer bags or freezer safe container and freeze for up to 6 months.
Homemade Apple Sauce
Ingredients
- 5 lbs. apples, a variety of kinds tastes better but you can use what you have as well
- 1 cup water
- 2 Tbsp. lemon juice
- 1/2 cup dark brown sugar
- 3/4 tsp cinnamon, more or less to taste
- 2 Tbsp. un-salted butter
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- salt to taste
Instructions
- Wash, peel, core and slice the apples
- Add the apples to a large pot with a lid
- Add in the water, lemon juice, sugar and cinnamon. Mix well and turn the stove to medium heat and bring to a boil
- Once it starts to boil, turn down the heat to medium low and simmer for 30 minutes with the lid on. Make sure to stir occasionally
- Remove the pot from the heat and mash with the potato masher into desired texture
- Stir in the butter, vanilla and salt. Mix well
- Add to a mason jar or airtight container and store in the fridge
- If you want a smooth apple sauce, blend it in the blender once it has cooled.
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Notes
- Lasts 6 days in the fridge in an airtight container or 6 months in the freezer in freezer bags or freezer safe storage containers
Leave a comment below if you made this recipe, I’d love to hear feedback.
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If I put them in water bath to seal the jars would I be able to store them on a shelf? For how long?
I wouldn’t can it as theres butter and its not an approved recipe for canning. It does however freeze really great!
Im definitely going to have to try this. Thank you!
Its so good! You’re welcome, I hope you enjoy it!