Apple Sauce - The Village Grocer

Ingredients

• 9 medium apples (any good cooking apple such as Golden Delicious, Braeburn, Mcintosh or Fuji), peeled, cored and quartered
• 1 cup water
• 1/3 to 2/3 cup brown sugar
• 1 or 2 drops of pure vanilla
• ¼ tsp ground cinnamon (optional)