About Me

My photo
FRANK ASHTON CLASSIC ITALIAN AND ADDITIONAL RECIPES: My name is Frank Ashton and I live in the Cleveland Ohio area. I was a high school art teacher for 33 years. I love painting,especially Impressionism; and traveling with my wife; but my other love is for cooking. Over the years I have probably cooked for some 20,000 people. This includes cooking free for many groups to raise funds for worthy causes. Most of my recipes are original from me and some from my mother or my wife Dottie. This has led me to decide to share my original recipes with others. This site has 110 recipes to date! My goal is to be able to give real recipes that really are excellent. One should not expect anything exotic; but I will guarantee they will impress anyone who loves to eat. FIRST GO TO GOOGLE AND PRINT IN THE WHITE BOX FRANK ASHTON ORIGINAL RECIPES AND CLICK ON THAT. Frank Ashton Original Recipes should come up. To print a recipe save it to favorites and then click on the recipe on favorites and you will then be able to print it. THERE ARE OVER 50 VEGETARIAN (MEAT FREE) RECIPES LOOK FOR THE ASTERISK * IN FRONT OF EACH RECIPE OR WORDS VEGETARIAN STYLE

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

*APPLE SAUCE SIMPLE BUT GREAT! ASHTON STYLE #(81)

  I never thought about how one makes good apple sauce until several people who were helping me with a dinner asked how I made it. I have to say I was surprised I thought everyone knew how to make apple sauce,  but not so:  this is why I am giving this simple but great recipe out. Remember, most canned apple sauce is rather bland but if you have to buy any, make sure its at least chunky.  Try this recipe and let me know what you think ENJOY

INGREDIENTS:

4 lbs of delicious apples, peeled, cut in half and then cut into wedges as if you were using them for an apple pie. 
1 cup of brown sugar
3 to 4 tab of cinnimon
2 cups of water or apple juice
1 potato masher

DIRECTIONS:
1. pour the water or apple juice into a large soup pot
2. add the apples and cook them on moderate heat
    using a defuser  ( a defuser is a pie shaped double
    metal full of holes on both side that you can only buy in a well
    stocked hardware store for only about $4 or so and which will
    prevent the apples or any sauce from burning)
4. put  a cover on the pot and check it every few minutes until it
    gets hot and the apples begin to soften; (each time you look at
    the apples stir them
5  once the apples begin to cook in ernest, add the dard brown
    sugar and cinnimon and stir them in until incorporated
6. as they get even more soft and begin to melt together you can
    now mash them with a potato masher until they look like apple
    sauce (if not sweet enough add a little more brown sugar; if too
    sweet (whoops)
7. this recipe will serve 10 or more generously

No comments:

Post a Comment