Applesauce & spices

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

For those who are more familiar with applesauce than myself, what are the typical flavourings that go with it?

So far, I have done

• Cinnamon and vanilla
• Saffron and maple syrup
• Saffron, green cardamon and maple syrup.

What else can I do? I'm not using sugar, these apples are eaters. Cooking apples don't exist in Australia. The maple syrup was the closest I've come to adding extra sugar (100ml in 4½L of final product. Not much but there's plenty of lemon juice in there.)

I've got at least another 2 batches of 4L of applesauce that can be made.

 

[buckytom]

I've had apple sauce with rehydrated raisins added. It wasn't bad. I've heard of adding raisins reconstituted in alcohol, but have never tried that.

 

[TastyReuben]

There are some applesauces here blended with other fruits - cranberry applesauce is a favorite of mine, but it’ll work with most fruits.

 

[ZCook]

TBH I'm not a massive fan of applesauce/apple puree but do like apple butter when it's boiled down to a very thick dark paste and can be further dried into fruit 'leather' sheets which keeps for an age.

 

[ZCook]

Cooking apples don't exist in Australia.

Nor here. But a lot of rootstock is. We have a Macintosh that put up suckers that were allowed to grow and bear and are Atonovka apples - super tart and fantastic cookers.

 

[Morning Glory]

TBH I'm not a massive fan of applesauce/apple puree but do like apple butter when it's boiled down to a very thick dark paste and can be further dried into fruit 'leather' sheets which keeps for an age.

Recipe - Black Butter

I used it to make Recipe - Black Butter Bakewell Tart

 

[karadekoolaid]

Applesauce - I don't think I've ever tried any.
However, apples with : ginger; cloves; nutmeg; allspice; fennel seeds - should work well.

 

[Barriehie]

Recipe - Black Butter

I used it to make Recipe - Black Butter Bakewell Tart

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Those look awesome!

 

[Morning Glory]

Those look awesome!

Thank you.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

The planned use of the applesauce is on our porridge in the morning. I've always needed something to sweeten porridge to be able to eat it.

I have fig molasses and last years grape molasses, along with this year's applesauce.
I've made apple butter previously and still have a few jars of that left.

I guess I could do apple and rhubarb.

Applesauce - I don't think I've ever tried any.
However, apples with : ginger; cloves; nutmeg; allspice; fennel seeds - should work well.

Thanks. I have all of those, but several of them are flavours in not keen on in quantity. I'm not the biggest fan of ginger for example, but used in dishes it's OK, but gingerbread or similar is a no. allspice could be an option.

 

[karadekoolaid]

Thanks. I have all of those, but several of them are flavours in not keen on in quantity. I'm not the biggest fan of ginger for example, but used in dishes it's OK, but gingerbread or similar is a no. allspice could be an option.

My experience using spices is being parsimonious. Lots of recipes I've seen use far too much spice; all that does is to mask the flavour of the main ingredient. That's one reason I despise cinnamon rolls
It's amazing what a tiny pinch of nutmeg, for example, will do to a bechamel sauce. A couple of cloves in an apple pie complement the acidity of the apples, without being overbearing.

 

[rascal]

We have pickled pork with apple sauce xmas day.
Apples bit water sugar is sour and pinch cinnamon.
Now im hungry

Russ

 

[Morning Glory]

Rosewater, kewra water or other naturally scented 'water' would be good.

There is an apple drink with rosewater called Feloodah. Shaker apple pies use rosewater too. Great combination.

How about herbs such as rosemary, lavender, thyme?

 

[kaneohegirlinaz]

Morning Glory ooohhhhhh lavender!
I use to make Chunky Applesauce like my great grandmother did, for my mother, but now that she's gone ...