This section is from the book "When Mother Lets Us Cook", by Constance Johnson. Also available from Amazon: When Mother Lets Us Cook.
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.
 
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