Boiled Cider Apple Sauce
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You’ll find this recipe in:
Buckeye Cookery and Practical Housekeeping
By Estelle Woods Wilcox
Marysville, Ohio
1877
Historic Recipe:
BOILED CIDER APPLE SAUCE.
Pare, quarter and core apples sufficient to fill a gallon porcelain kettle, put in it a half gallon boiled cider, let it boil. Wash the apples and put in kettle, place a plate over them, and boil steadily but not rapidly until they are thoroughly cooked, testing by taking one from under the edge of the plate with a fork. Do not remove the plate until done, or the apples will sink to the bottom and burn. Apples may be cooked in sweet cider in the same way. - Mrs. W. W. W.
My Recipe
Boiled Cider Apple Sauce
Apples (sliced, peeled & cored)
Apple Cider (alcoholic or non-alcoholic)
Use about twice the apples than apple cider in volume
I used:
10 cups sliced Apples (1135 g)
5 cups non-alcoholic Apple Cider (1.2 L)
Simmer the apples and cider together over medium-low heat in a covered pot, stirring often, until the apples are soft and mushy (it took about an hour with these amounts).
To create your sauce, pulverize the apples with a potato masher if you enjoy chunky apple sauce. Other options are pushing the sauce through a sieve with a wooden spoon or a spatula, or using a blender, food processor or immersion blender.
I needed add about 2 cups (473 mL) of water for a more sauce-like consistency and I ended up with about 7 cups (1.6 L) of apple sauce.
Welcome to the annual Apple Season here on my blog! From late July to the end of August, we are barraged with apples from the apple tree that hangs over into our back yard, so I usually do a couple of apple recipes this time of the year.
We have no idea what variety these apples are, so please comment or email if you have a guess. It is the tallest apple tree I’ve ever seen in my life (it’s taller than our 2 story house) and the apples are yellow-green with a slight rosy blush on some apples. The apples are quite dry, but they are sweet. They are so dry that I initially mushed the apples with a potato masher when I made this recipe, but I decided to puree the sauce with a blender after tasting it. Let’s just say that the dry apple chunks left in the sauce before blenderizing were not delightful.
Apple Recipe Suggestions:
If you make a huge batch of Boiled Cider Apple Sauce, you could use some of your sauce to make Apple Sauce Cake or Apple Bread. If you want to try making something different with the same ingredients, Apple Butter is another recipe that uses apples and apple cider. I also highly recommend making Apple Leather if you have an abundance of apples.
