Old-Fashioned Apple Sauce

Original Recipe

Pare and chop a dozen medium-sized apples, put them in a deep pudding-dish; sprinkle over them a heaping coffeecupful of sugar and one of water. Place them in the oven and bake slowly two hours or more, or until they are a deep red brown; quite as nice as preserves.

Ingredients

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  • 1 heaping coffeecupful of sugar and one of water
  • 2 hours or more
  • 1 deep red brown

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Instructions

  1. 1

    Pare and chop a dozen medium-sized apples, put them in a deep pudding-dish; sprinkle over them a heaping coffeecupful of sugar and one of water.

  2. 2

    Place them in the oven and bake slowly two hours or more, or until they are a deep red brown; quite as nice as preserves.

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Recipe by Mrs. F.L. Gillette from The White House Cook Book (1887)