 Nothing says fall like fallen apples. They certainly make great cider, but much easier for the interested and lazy cook, windfall apples make wonderful homemade applesauce. All you need is a forgotten apple tree, a few simple ingredients and a little home time. My novel's heroine Clair Martin, 19th century maverick and Brigham City, Utah gardener, herewith gives her recipe for the best applesauce you ever tasted. Use windfall apples, or any apples just getting pink cheeks on the reachable branches. Store bought will not do. Go meet a tree.  
5 Comments
8/25/2012 01:55:18 am
Don't like applesauce? You haven't tried Clair's. French toast will thank you humbly for the addition. (And normally the French ain't humble.) You can pick 13 apples as you walk past the trees!
Mireille Key
9/16/2012 10:44:04 am
Wonderful applesauce, Barbara. Thanks for the recipe. I'm ready to make some more. How lovely to have a giving tree 100 yards or so from my house. 9/16/2012 11:02:21 am
The Giving Tree! Isn't that a Shel Silverstein book? A great Shel Silverstein book. I just saw someone down the street shaking the branches of his apple tree and the thunks of all the willing apples was a beautiful sound! 9/17/2012 06:27:22 pm
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