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Homemade Applesauce (and how to preserve it)

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Homemade Applesauce | In Jennie's Kitchen

Until two weeks ago, I hadn’t made homemade applesauce in years. At least eight, in fact. It was one of Virginia’s first foods. The great benefit to giving birth to spring babies means first foods are chock full of bounty from the farmers’ markets. Simply steam a sweet potato, and mash it. Do the same with super ripe bananas. Homemade meals are so easy in those first months of being a new eater, at least for the tired mama preparing them.

Applesauce was a favorite back then, too, and not with just Virginia. Michael loved applesauce. Honestly, I’d never seen an adult so enamored with it. I mean, it’s just cooked, pureed apples. There are so many other foods to choose from when you’ve got full-fledged teeth, but eating applesauce straight from the jar was something he loved. He got quite a few talkings to from me about contaminating the entire jar with his germs, but now that I think about it, perhaps this was his strategy to ensure an entire jar for himself? I suspect this may come up with Matthew as the years go by, him being an applesauce lover, too.

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