Apple Sauce

On Halloween Jess, Riley and I went over to my moms to be with her and to help hand out candy. While we were there we also decided to make my moms SUPER yummy applesauce. We all had a LOT of fun being together and making it. Riley liked to help stir the apple sauce but LOVED running to the door to look at the trick-or-treaters when the doorbell rang. Below are pictures from the day - I am no chef or cook by any means so don't mind unique description of words at times :)

My mom uses Macintosh apples. So the first thing you do is wash the apples and cut them in fourths.

Using a boiling pot with strainer you cook the apples until the get nice and mushy. It smells great! 

This is what the apples look like in the pot/strainer after they have been cooked. Nice and mushy. You pour out the extra water and then the apple mush gets transferred into a special pot thing with a crank.

Once the apples are mushy they get transferred into a grinding/sifter pot with a crank. You then crank all the mush through the pot into a bowl.

Cute Lil Ry sitting in a "big girl chair" helping out and eating an apple.

Riley even liked to help crank the apples through the pot. This is where a lot of time goes into. Cranking the apples is a slow process and takes some good arm muscles.

Ry couldn't resist a little finger taste test of the fresh apple sauce!

This is my mom "seasoning" the sauce. She adds brown sugar, regular sugar and cinnamon. This is where her "magic" comes into play because there is no recipe she does it by taste and what the sauce looks like.

When it is ALL done... it is VERY YUMMY!!!