Once you've made the applesauce....

[horseyrider]

I know most of us here like to put up some applesauce. It's easy to do, and everyone likes it. Plus, it makes use of the drops and the damaged ones because we can cut off the bad spots and use the good parts. Been there, done that, many, many times. Many times.

So now I have a gazillion jars of applesauce. I have cinnamon applesauce, plain applesauce, dessert applesauce (coarser, a little sweeter, with vanilla), and that's in addition to the pie apples, the apple cherry stuff, the cinnamon apple rings, the dried apples, juice, you name it.

The trees are covered with apples again.  And since not all are perfect, I see more applesauce in my future.

We eat applesauce in a dish.  With pork.  Under ice cream.  OVER ice cream.  We use it to bake cookies, muffins, and cakes.  We top cheese blintzes with applesauce.  We use it to get meds into horses. 

I still have a gazillion jars.

How do you use applesauce?

I'm willing to consider just about everything short of lubing the car or as a hair rinse.

A gazillion jars.

[Gretchen]

I used to dehydrate applesauce and make fruit leather out of it. It is SO MUCH BETTER than boughten fruit leathers with out all the sugar added. 

My children loved it.

[terrilynn]

We eat it in oatmeal and yogurt. Have you thought about making juice out of your apples. I bought a Jack LeLaine (sp ?) juicer and I love it. I will juice many apples at a time in my juicer until I have a large kettle full. Then I let the solids settle a bit, I can the  juice.

Last year we experimented with a jar of juice. I was going to make it into wine. I had it in a 2 quart canning jar with a lid and ring on it sitting on a shelf in my basement with the intention of getting to it in day or two. Well a year later I found it on the shelf and it had turned to vinegar. So maybe making your own homemade vinegar is a thought as well.

[horseyrider]

Gretchen, thanks! I had forgotten completely about fruit leather! I will give that a shot.

Terrilynn, yep, juice. I sure hadn't considered vinegar though. I'll have to do some homework on that, but it would be a fun project if I can avoid the big canning crush time. I have a nice place downstairs for late apples; perhaps I can do some this fall. Thank you for the idea! I've not put it in oatmeal yet because I don't eat oatmeal, but DH does. I'll suggest it. And yogurt, yep. Although usually I reach for cherries and almonds, or raisins, honey, and walnuts, or chopped fresh apples with honey, cinnamon, and pecans.

Now I'm getting hungry.

Please keep 'em coming, folks. I'd love to have a lot of ways to use them up!

[paquebot]

Applesauce and ice cream, applesauce and ice cream, and then applesauce and ice cream! When I steam juice for apple wine, the pulp is quite edible. If it's a particularly tasty apple variety or mix, it's not dumped. Instead it is pressed through a chinois sieve and canned. Yes, no chunks and the same consistency as Gerber's but no less delicious. Doesn't need anything added as it's surprisingly sweet. Think of how apple cider has a certain acidic bite to it. That's only in the juice. The sweetness remains in the pulp after steam extraction. (Also applies to pears.)

Martin

[themotherhen]

You can use applesauce to replace fat in any cookie, cake, pancake, etc. the fruit eater is a great idea! Applesauce bran muffins are really good too, and freeze really well.

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I put it on pancakes.  

[gracielagata]

What about making apple butter?

I don't eat it often, but when I eat Cream of Wheat, it *must* have applesauce in it, or it just isn't right. That's how my dad made it for me as a kid- no sugar, just apple sauce, likely to cool it down after cooking. But I love it that way.

Can't come up with any new ways for you to eat it though, lots of good ones have been listed.

Can you also make sliced apples in the future to not have as much applesauce? Like the canned fruit type. Do we make sliced apples in liquid like that? Haven't ever seen it, so maybe there is a reason.

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1 cup finely chopped apple and walnuts in raspberry jello. We make apple juice, that turns to cider, that makes vinegar with the addition of some mother from last years vinegar. We can sliced apples for pies, apple crisp, pancake topping and quick applesauce during the winter but we store 25 bushel for eating fresh, applesauce, pies, crisp, baked in muffins juice and pancake topping....James

[Wendy]

Mix applesauce with cinnamon until you can roll it out & make Christmas ornaments. Give them away to all of your friends & relatives. They are very cute & smell wonderful!

[Deleted]

We use applesauce on German potato pancakes.
Make applesauce cake
fruit leather
dehydrate the apples
cinnamon apple rings
Bake some molasses cookies, mix some vanilla ice cream with an apple mixture of your choice, put between to cookies and you have some real yummy ice cream sandwiches
You can make apple cider vinegar

Can you trade/ barter with some friends for other fruits or stuff?