Homemade Applesauce – Lauren Groveman

Ingredients

• 11 large Macintosh apples, unpeeled, scrubbed, dried and each cut into 8 wedges
• 1 cup apple cider or unsweetened apple juice
• 1 or 2 cinnamon sticks
• 1/3 cup granulated sugar
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
• 1/4 teaspoon fine table salt
• 1 scant teaspoon pure vanilla extract