{"id":1550,"slug":"homemade-applesauce","title":"Homemade Applesauce","description":"This is a nice applesauce to enjoy any time, but especially with latkes during Hanukkah. You don't need to get your blender dirty; you just need a potato masher and a little elbow grease. The use of a sugar substitute makes the applesauce sweeter with less sugar added.","ingredients_raw":["3 pounds (1300 g / about 8 cups) peeled, cored, and chopped apples","½ cup water","6 tablespoons white granulated sugar","6 tablespoons sugar substitute","Juice from 1 lemon (about 1 tablespoon)","½ teaspoon ground cinnamon or apple pie spice"],"ingredients_norm":["pound","water","white granulated sugar","sugar substitute","juice from lemon","ground cinnamon or apple pie spice"],"steps":["Put chopped apples in a large non-stick saucepan. Stir in water, sugar, sugar substitute, and lemon juice.","Bring mixture to a boil, cover, and reduce heat to medium-low.","Cook until apples are tender (about 10 minutes).","Use a potato masher to break cooked apples up into a nice purée.","Stir in ground cinnamon or apple pie spice.","Serve warm or cold."],"categories":["Fruit recipes","Inexpensive recipes","Recipes for dessert","Recipes using ground cinnamon","Recipes using apple","Naturally gluten-free recipes","Boiled recipes","Kid-friendly recipes","Recipes for applesauce","Recipes using white sugar","Recipes using lemon juice"],"prep_time_minutes":null,"cook_time_minutes":null,"total_time_minutes":60,"servings":null,"yield_text":"8 ea. ½-cup servings","difficulty":"easy","source_name":"wikibooks","source_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Homemade_Applesauce","source_ref":"4524778","authors_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook:Homemade_Applesauce&action=history","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","extraction_confidence":null,"content_hash":"755d579579163a8aa0fe3aab1b73ee04744b7d670524877741259b3452392419","created_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:04Z","updated_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:04Z","notice":null,"url":"https://recipecontextprotocol.com/recipes/homemade-applesauce"}