apple butter or applesauce for one or two

[dailywalk]

My recipes won't impress really good cooks, but might get a smile from those who are on the run and all kids grown.

My daughter and daughter in law had been making apple butters and they were yummy. In the crock pot slow cooking all day.
Delicious.
Over the weekend I'd noticed I'd thrown quite a few whole apples into the freezer some while back.

I took one and punched holes in the top, plopped it into a wide
circular top coffee cup, like the old fashioned diner coffee cups, and nuked it in the microwave a few minutes until boiling, literally, but not exploded.
Probably two to three minutes. I took it out and it looked like a shriveled apple in a cup of water but I noticed the peel and insides
came out so easy. And it was like a transformation when stirred it turned into a wonderful applesauce, butter type of spread
and I had it hot with my toast and the other 1/2 cold as applesauce, later. Delicious. I didn't use any seasoning for that apple.

I tried it with a fresh apple today, I do like apples and we had gotten several this afternoon. It didn't work like it did with the frozen one.
However, it did turn out fine after nuking it a bit more than I'd expected.

So I would suggest for a fresh apple, cutting into slices, already peeled, as the peel didn't just slide off like it did with the frozen one.
Set in a cup (this time it was any old coffee mug) for three minutes. Test, if not soft enough to crush and stir, and a little bit mushy, try cooking just a little longer.
Not over a minute at a time, as microwave cooking can get too hot too easy and blow up.

Stir up into a spreadable consistency and today I seasoned with a tad of honey and a bit of allspice. But I'm sure cinnamon would be wonderful.
Be great for oatmeal, toast, as a side, or on ice cream.

 

[Brad Huber]

Sounds great!

 

[dailywalk]

Brad, I may never get an award for the best cooking, but I might get a special mention on how to make things fast. We get a lot of free apples and have little time, so a frozen apple turned into morning
apple butter was a grand way to have tea and toast and keep and use some of those apples. The Lord is Kind. He supplies for the birds and all of us. I thank Him so!
Have a precious day dear brother.

 

[Fragrant Grace]

Greetings @dailywalk

Thanks for sharing this idea.

I have 4 young daughters and lots of apples.....so great to try something new!

Bless you

 

[dailywalk]

What a busy blessed household with four daughters.
I had three children and so loved that time. And love it now and am thankful.
Now it is the grandchildren and that is so precious.
Have a most wonderful week.

 

[dailywalk]

I was getting the kids ready for school and remembered our drive in this morning and my husband recalling his Mom and how she use to take the apples they had and put them up, but when they got a freezer
she began to just freeze them, and a lot of their garden, also. (they lived a lot out of their garden and were really frugal as far as
getting food where it was available like apples).
But she took them and cut them up and froze them as they had a big freezer in the basement.
He said she made apple crisp and whatever, out of those apples, the kids would go down and
break a chunk off for whatever was being made, as she'd froze them in big ice cream containers.
I can just see them all doing this.
It might work well to flash freeze the apples cut up on a baking tray and then put them in bags and freeze them.