Applesauce, Canned - cooking recipe

Ingredients

4 medium cooking apples
1/4 c. sugar or more to taste
2-inch stick cinnamon

Preparation

Wash, pare if desired, quarter and core cooking apples. Simmer, covered, with cinnamon in a small amount of water until tender, about 10 minutes.
Remove cinnamon.
Press apples through sieve.
Stir in sugar.
Reheat to boiling.
Pour, boiling hot, into hot sterilized jars, leaving 1/2-inch headspace.
Stir with rubber bottle scraper or other non-metallic spoon to remove air bubbles. Adjust caps.
Process pints and quarts 20 minutes in boiling water bath.