Apple Sauce

[Florence Fennel]

I have loads of windfall eating apples that are not fully mature and a bit scabby. Can I make them into apple sauce using an unpeeled method? They would be far too fiddly to peel, but I could core and quarter. Ideas anybuddy please?

[Bren In Pots]

Flo I think it should work if you put the apples into a blender or food processor after cooking them.

[Florence Fennel]

Thanks Bren, do you think I could push them through a sieve? I haven't got a blender or a food processor

[mothhawk]

I think it would depend if they were the type of eating apples that go soft when you cook them. Some seem to retain their crispness no matter how long they are cooked. I use a metal sieve for rubbing fruit which is easier than a plastic one.

I bought one of these last year. I'd been dithering about getting one for a year or two. It's brilliant, I can peel, slice and core a carrier bag of apples in about 10 minutes. Odd shaped ones sometimes have a nick or two of peel left on, but who cares? I love it, even if it's only used for one month a year.

[Bren In Pots]

Thanks Bren, do you think I could push them through a sieve? I haven't got a blender or a food processor

I'd mash them with a potato thingie then use the sieve that might make it easier, maybe something for youngest GG to help with.

[Patchninja]

I've got one of those thingies ˆˆˆˆ e use it every day as we love apples and tey taste better sliced and peeled
It's worth cooking up half a dozen of your funny apples and see how you get on before tackling a ton!

[roitelet]

I don't like Apple sauce but apple pieces fried in bitter with a tiny pinch of cinnamon with pork is lovely.

[Florence Fennel]

Thanks All I'll let you know how I get on!

[Florence Fennel]

It's taken me 2 hours. First I didn't peel them, then I chopped them, then I boiled them, then I smashed them all to bits It was the rubbing through the sieve that took me an hour and I now have two pound jars full of apple puree in the freezer and one small t*ware container in the fridge. I'm not sure whether it was worth it, but maybe I'll think differently when it's on a hot roast pork sandwich with plenty of crackling

[mothhawk]

Too late for my afterthought then. I was going to suggest coring them and baking them in the oven. It occurred to me that cooked that way, you could scoop out the apple flesh with a spoon like you can with a regular baked apple and save having to do the sieving bit.

[Bren In Pots]

It's taken me 2 hours. First I didn't peel them, then I chopped them, then I boiled them, then I smashed them all to bits It was the rubbing through the sieve that took me an hour and I now have two pound jars full of apple puree in the freezer and one small t*ware container in the fridge. I'm not sure whether it was worth it, but maybe I'll think differently when it's on a hot roast pork sandwich with plenty of crackling

Flo it was bound to be worth it and anyway if you didn't use the apples you'd have only felt bad about throwing them out.

[Nicos]

Too late for my afterthought then. I was going to suggest coring them and baking them in the oven. It occurred to me that cooked that way, you could scoop out the apple flesh with a spoon like you can with a regular baked apple and save having to do the sieving bit.

I think that's a brill idea...would never have thought of that!!

[Florence Fennel]

I did think of that one MH, but there were so many scabby bits, both on the inside and out, that it woud have been just as, if not more, tedious. Done now, but I'm seriously thinking of getting one of those peeling contraptions. I really got near to the "one click" last year and regretted it when my friend at work gave me about 3 carrier bags full of apples.

[Patchninja]

I got mine because I was given so manyapples las year and didn't want to waste them. They're about 10 Euros here. Well worth it!