Ooooh, recipes! If you want a super dooper awesome twist to your apple sauce, put some fresh cranberries in there and a bit extra sugar to even out the sourness of the cranberries. I usually put in You will have to put it through a sieve or, if you have one, a potato ricer/foley mill to get out the cranberry skins and seeds afterwards, but basically you want to have a ratio of about 1:4 cranberries:apple chunks or 1:5 cranberries:whole apples.
You can also add a pinch of cardamom to this tasty sauce. We eat it every Thanksgiving. It's fantastic with turkey.
P.S. If you have a ricer/foley mill, you do not have to peel and core the apples. Just quarter or eighth them and throw 'em in the pot. The foley mill will strain out all the skins and cores and stuff.
I don't have a mill. Or a strainer, for that matter. I did, however, consider getting a bottle of that unsweetened 100% cranberry juice and putting some of that in, in place of all or some of the water :D Ultimately decided to just do the first batch plain without too much experimentation, but I think cranberry would be a very nice flavor with the tartness of the honeycrisp apples.
Hm, if you ever do try replacing water with cranberry juice, let me know how it turns out. I'm sure it'll affect the flavor somehow, I just don't know how much, and in my version of the sauce, the fresh cranberries are important because the cranberry flesh gives some of the texture to the final product, and a lot of flavor. I fear that just the juice will be too weak to properly affect the final sauce. Incidentally, a strainer might not be a bad addition to your kitchen. Also not very expensive. Very useful. :P
The 100% cranberry juice is pretty intense stuff, in color and flavor. I'll let you know if I do make a substitution! (It's delicious mixed with orange juice, I can tell you that much).
I don't mean the juice-cocktail drinking juice, though, just PS. I mean the knudson or whatever 'Just Cranberry', that's just that. Cranberries, juiced.
I see what you mean about the cranberries themselves though, and I will definitely give that a shot once I acquire appropriate equipment.
Another idea might be to boil down some of that cranberry juice until it's more of a syrup and mix that in. That way you get more concentrated flavor and not so much liquid that you get apple soup rather than apple sauce.
Exciting! You'll be famous soon! :P I was actually looking at that soup. I adore pumpkin and think that I would like to try this recipe out too. I think it'll have to wait til I get home (i.e. next week) to try it because I'm not sure where I can get a pumpkin here. There's other squash, just not pumpkin. Though I think Hokkaido squash would be also tasty in that soup...
You can also add a pinch of cardamom to this tasty sauce. We eat it every Thanksgiving. It's fantastic with turkey.
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The 100% cranberry juice is pretty intense stuff, in color and flavor. I'll let you know if I do make a substitution! (It's delicious mixed with orange juice, I can tell you that much).
I don't mean the juice-cocktail drinking juice, though, just PS. I mean the knudson or whatever 'Just Cranberry', that's just that. Cranberries, juiced.
I see what you mean about the cranberries themselves though, and I will definitely give that a shot once I acquire appropriate equipment.
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