As children, we used to pick tart green apples from the lone fruit tree in our city backyard and peel using a paring knife…slow, careful, deliberate and then slice into chunks by hand to cook. Mom filled glass quart jars and vacuum sealed them in the pressure canner.
As adults, we pick ripe red apples from tree of choice in farm orchard and use a mechanical peeler…set apple on spikes to hold in place, turn handle quickly to create curls of peelings, then remove naked fruit, already sliced. We cut, cook, cool, and spoon into freezer containers.
Family comes together to make applesauce memories in season…working to process the produce, we’ll savor the flavor the rest of the year. Counting filled jars or quart containers is pure satisfaction.
cinnamon sugared
pick, peel, core, slice, cook slowly
chunky applesauce
a poem in my pocket 
Aug 21, 2024 @ 20:57:52
What a lovely memory Lynn. I love apple anything ☺️
Aug 22, 2024 @ 21:03:14
Yes, me too!
Aug 21, 2024 @ 18:00:30
Apples are a favourite of mine! Apple sauce and roast pork – yum!
Aug 22, 2024 @ 21:03:59
Yes, or with pork chops! 🙂
Aug 21, 2024 @ 14:33:49
You have got me craving for some applesauce now haha! This is stunning .. in the sense that reading it creates a sensory experience of picking, cutting, cooking .. sigh .. thank you so much for writing to the prompt 💝💝
Aug 22, 2024 @ 21:04:52
Thank you for the prompt and your kind comments, Sanaa!
Aug 21, 2024 @ 08:20:37
A lifetime of applesauce making memories–how delightful, Lynn!
I make applesauce in the fall, too. I usually freeze some, but my husband and I don’t eat that much. I love the smell of it cooking though. I wish I could freeze the scent.
Aug 22, 2024 @ 21:07:11
Yes, the aroma of applesauce cooking warms the soul! My grandchildren devour our applesauce.
Aug 23, 2024 @ 09:01:04
😋😋
Aug 21, 2024 @ 05:08:17
I really enjoyed your apple haibun, Lynn, especially as we now have cooking apples on our trees, which I have been stewing with cinnamon, lemon and raisins to eat with my morning granola and Greek yogurt. Sadly, they are not all good apples, so not enough to make and freeze apple sauce, which I love!
Aug 22, 2024 @ 21:10:28
Sounds like a delicious breakfast, Kim 🙂
Aug 23, 2024 @ 01:30:32
It is!
Aug 20, 2024 @ 22:44:40
Apples are such wonderful fruit as you describe in you great post. We used to buy them by the bushel and make apple sauce. There is nothing quite like homemade apple sauce! Well done.
Aug 22, 2024 @ 21:09:12
Thanks, Dwight! Maybe you can try making apple butter to put on your homemade bread 🙂
Aug 23, 2024 @ 14:14:37
Oh, now you are making me hungry. I had some apple butter today for lunch on my cottage cheeze. I love it. I get mine at the Cracker Barrel restaurant.
Aug 20, 2024 @ 18:27:38
Get’s me hungry for apple crisp…
Aug 20, 2024 @ 20:54:06
😀 Happy apple season!