Instructions. Place apples in a baking dish with lid. Stuff with lemon rind, currants, vanilla bean, and cinnamon sticks. Drizzle with lemon juice. Scatter remaining currants …
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Combine the water, red hots, and sugar in a medium sauce pan, and heat until red hots dissolve completely. Turn the heat to low and stir in the sliced, peeled apples. Cook for about 10 minutes. Take the pan off the heat and let the apples set while you sterilize your canning jars, lids, and rings.
Taste to see how sweet the apples are. You can also add cinnamon, nutmeg or allspice the last 5 minutes of cooking time. Keep applesauce boiling and ladle hot sauce into hot jars leaving 1/2 inch headspace. Remove air bubbles and adjust two piece caps. Process pints and quarts for 20 minutes in a boiling water canner.
Core the apple and slice thinly. Heat up butter in a frying pan and brown the slices until golden. Add cinnamon towards the end. Serve the apples warm with the vanilla sauce.