Originally Posted by
coopah
I make my own applesauce when I can get apples, but they sure don't grow in FL. Instead of sugar, I use the cinnamon candies. They're totally sugar and give a nice pink color to the sauce. I don't know how much candy to add. Just pour some in and taste...keep going if you need to.
A bushel of apples is dear these days, PMJ! We used to buy them in WA state and they sold them by the pound. The more you bought, the more the price would be reduced to a certain point. Used to buy 50 pounds and that was enough to carry us to the next year's crop. We don't eat the store applesauce. This is our first year in the last 20 to go without homemade applesauce.
Winn Dixie has Gala apples on sale this week for $1 per pound, and I figure one pound makes one pint. I don't know what the commercial junk costs now but I won't complain at $1 per jar of the good stuff. Mom canned hers plain, then added the candies and baked them. Can you still buy those cinnamon candies at the grocery store? If not, I'll bet Dollar Tree might have them.
Just read online that a bushel of apples weighs 48# so that would be $48 per bushel on sale! Says one bushel yields 15-18 quarts. Since I'm alone a few pints will do fine for me.
