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By: Carina Baier
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Making applesauce yourself is incredibly tasty and really not difficult.
Simply cook the fruit in screw-top jars that you have left over at home.
Whether as a side dish with pancakes, buttermilk waffles or grandma's semolina porridge: applesauce is a popular food that tastes good at any time of the year.
Fruit is in season in autumn and if you have an apple tree in your garden, you can cook down lots of fallen fruit.
There's a trick so that it doesn't take too much effort: cook applesauce directly in mason jars in the oven.
This saves you time and nerves.
This means you avoid the constant stirring that occurs when preparing food on the stove.
The oven also offers even heat distribution, meaning nothing can burn.
Cooking applesauce: Which types of apple are particularly suitable
Aromatic varieties such as Elstar or Boskop are suitable for preserving applesauce.
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Choose aromatic, juicy apple varieties that have a slightly sour note, for example Elstar and Boskop.
You can find further recommendations on which type of apple you should choose for what in our apple guide.
The riper the fruits are, the more sugar they contain.
Therefore, if you have particularly sweet apples, adjust the amount of sugar in the recipe.
Please note, however, that sugar also ensures a longer shelf life.
The less sugar you use, the shorter the applesauce will last.
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Simple recipe: How to cook applesauce in the oven
It is particularly important that you sterilize the preserving jars well beforehand.
To do this, you can either place them in a pot of boiling water for ten minutes or, alternatively, sterilize them in the oven at 120 °C for 15 minutes.
Ingredients for four glasses:
1 kg fresh apples
Spices of your choice, e.g.
B. ground cinnamon or cinnamon sticks, vanilla, cloves, star anise
50 g sugar (more or less to taste)
some lemon juice
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This is how it works:
Preheat the oven to 85 °C fan oven.
Peel the apples and remove the core.
Then cut the apples into small cubes and place them in the prepared jars.
Distribute your chosen spices and sugar among the glasses as desired.
Add a small splash of lemon juice.
Now fill the glasses with water so that the contents are completely covered.
Close the jars tightly and shake everything well so that the ingredients are mixed well.
Place all the glasses on a baking tray and place it on the middle shelf of the oven.
Cook the apples for about 40-45 minutes.
After this time, check whether bubbles form in the jars.
If this is the case, the applesauce is ready.
Otherwise, leave it in the oven a little longer.
Then take the glasses out and let them cool completely.
If you store the applesauce in a cool, dark place, it will last for a few months.
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