Saturday, November 20, 2010

apple sauce

I've been making lots of apple sauce for family members. Ingredients is Cortland apples and sugar. I happened to have some date syrup (dates soaked in water) on hand for making house-mate's smoothies, so I thought, hey, I can make a small batch of apple sauce for myself.

Ingredients:
2 cortland apples
2 tsp date syrup
1/4 tsp cinnamon
1/2 oz chopped walnuts or sunflower seeds (optional)

Cook the apples in about 1/4 cup water for about 10 minutes after boiling. Add the date syrup and cinnamon. Add some walnuts or sunflower seeds if you want. yum!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Great way to sweeten apple sauce naturally. I also make a similar recipe for pear sauce, but always purchase date syrup. I find it's actually less expensive that way! And, I like the texture better for pancakes and such.

kneecap said...

I purchase my date syrup too. I like the texture too, and I'm not as tempted to nibble on it as I am with whole dates! I'm just not sure everyone can get date syrup easily so I try to remind people that it's simply dates soaked in water.

ooh, sounds good for pear sauce.