Apples Sugar Butter Spices

Saucepan Sharp knife Apple-corer Strainer or sieve Bowl

Choose some nice hard cooking apples, core them, and peel them with a sharp knife.

Cut them in quarters and lay these in a deep saucepan.

Sprinkle the apples with granulated sugar, allowing 1 cup for 6 good-sized apples, and add to this 2 tablespoonfuls of mixed spices, cloves, cinnamon, ginger, and so forth. If you do not like spices you need not put this in.

Pour into the saucepan 1 cup of cold water, and set the pan on a warm part of the stove.

The apples should cook for about fifteen minutes, until they are quite soft and the water is partly boiled away, leaving a syrup.

Take a coarse sieve or strainer, put 1 table-spoonful of butter in the bottom of it, and strain the applesauce into a bowl.

Push it through the strainer with a spoon if necessary.

Set the bowl in a cool place, and serve the apple sauce cold with milk or cream.