Someone somewhere is smashing up apples into slurry you eat with a spoon. That someone could be you
Photo: Miriam Doerr/Getty Images/Westend61 Every so often, someone who knows how to cook eagerly informs me that I could easily make one of my favored store-bought treats myself. Usually I am not interested, because the whole point of liking the treat is that I like it as is, and not in some allegedly superior, more wholesome form. I don’t like cooking very much, and I don’t like waiting at all, and usually I’d prefer to just buy the thing I know I like.
This weekend a friend in culinary school showed me how to “make” it, and I put “make” in quotes just to emphasize how ridiculously easy it was. First you peel five or six Honeycrisp apples — the best apple, I am legally required to say, as they come from Minnesota and so do I. You dice those up, and put them in a pot with a cup of water, a heaping half cup of sugar, a heaping teaspoon of cinnamon, and a pinch of salt. You simmer that for a while .
When the apples are dark brown and kind of translucent, and soft , you remove the pot from the heat and then mash them up with one of those potato masher things, or a fork if you don’t have one. What you have now is homemade applesauce, which is better than store-bought because it’s sweeter, and not so mushy and watery . You could eat it by itself, or with ice cream.
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