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Crockpot Applesauce

Lisa Eirene

About Lisa Eirene Lisa lost 110 pounds through calorie counting and exercise. She swims, bikes, runs, hikes and is enjoying life in Portland, Oregon. Her weight loss story has been featured in First Magazine, Yahoo Health, Woman's Day and Glamour.com.

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  1. Lori

    I wonder if you could peel the apples and not use a food mill. I don’t have one, but want to make applesauce. I guess a potato masher could work in a pinch LOL.

    I wanted to make applesauce, but John is thinking pie first πŸ˜€

    1. Lisa Eirene

      Sure, peeling the apples would work too. I figured that would be much more time consuming though. The food mill part took me maybe 10 minutes.

  2. Cheryl

    Really great post. I love homemade applesauce but never thought of doing it in a crock pot. My mother used to make homemade applesauce all the time in a big pan on the top of the stove. It did smell so good when cooking. One time, I remember, she forgot the pan and it burned – burned horribly. Naturally the applesauce was no good but that pan was horrible. Now I would have tossed the pan (back in my “throw away days) but she scrubbed and scrubbed that pan for days and probably went through a whole box of SOS pads but she got it clean. Never walked away from the applesauce on the stove again!

    I am going to try your crock pot recipe though. Great for fall and winter. Here in the country where I live in the fruit belt of Southwest Michigan apples are abundant right now and I can get them right off the farms.

    1. Lisa Eirene

      I love the story about your mother. Definitely a generational thing. My grandma and mom would do the same thing–scrub it until it worked again!

      The recipe was SO easy. Seriously, one of the easiest I’ve ever tried. The crockpot probably makes all the difference. It really was a leave it and let it do all the work.

  3. Lisa

    My family makes applesauce too, but we don’t put sugar or cinnamon in it. Just a small amount of water to keep the apples from burning to the pan. I have a food mill that I thought was called an applesauce maker until I was an adult because that’s all my grandmother and mother ever used it for. It’s cone shaped with a wooden cone that you press the food into the sides that are like a sieve. My sister and I use the crockpot but my mom and grandmother made it on the stove. The applesauce makes great apple butter!

    1. Lisa Eirene

      Oh yeah I think the sugar could be skipped next time.Apples are pretty sweet on their own. I want to experiment with other apple types.

  4. bethh

    Haha! I’ll see your four pounds of apples and raise it to TEN pounds! I went a little crazy at the market a couple weeks ago – when I had the apples cored and chopped they filled my Dutch oven to the absolute top. I actually had to shift some into a smaller pot until they started breaking down.

    I just add a little water and add some cinnamon at the end, keep it on medium-low on the stovetop, and moosh it with a spoon sometimes. I leave the skin in and I like it chunky!

    1. Lisa Eirene

      Dang! 10 pounds! Good for you.
      I also like the chunkier applesauce. It’s a good texture and that’s why I didn’t also puree the applesauce after putting it through the food mill.

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