Smooth and/or chunky applesauce

17 1-oz-serv.

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
6 mediums Golden Delicious or other
...cooking apples, cooked as
...directed in My First
...Applesauce recipe

Directions

Puree cooked apples until smooth or chunky, depending on the age of your baby and tastes of your family.

VARIATIONS: Try one of the following for a change of taste, depending on the age of your baby:

þ Puree uncooked berries with apples. þ Puree RIPE, peeled, and pitted apricots with apples (to peel apricots easily, see Just Peachy recipe). þ Mix in a few drops of vanilla or almond extract. þ Dust with a little ground cinnamon. þ Mix in some lemon zest (finely grated yellow peel without the white pith). þ Mix in a few ground walnuts and a little maple syrup. þ Mix in a handful of raisins soaked in apple juice until plump. þ Top individual servings with a dollop of yogurt; marbelize by running a knife through it once in a zigzag pattern.

From _Mommy Made* and Daddy Too_ by Martha and David Kimmel, with Suzanne Goldenson.

Submitted By JANIE YOUNG On 02-07-95

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