I'm feeling nostalgic for that old recipe which involved dissolving those tiny, fiery "red-hots" candies in boiling water, adding a couple of boxes of cherry Jello, and two cups of applesauce. Has anyone out there figured out a way to re-create this Christmas favorite with ChillOver powder?
My husband's grandmother regulary added redhots to her applesauce when she made it. It turned the applesauce pink and flavored it at the same time. I myself would just use cinnamon.
She used to make beet jelly too, adding whatever flavor of koolaide to beet juice to make jelly. Never been my style to add those processed ingredients, but she came through the depression tho and did whatever it took to feed her family.
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I add redhots to my applesauce when I can it, it makes the applesauce so good, and Ive tried just cinnamon but it doesnt taste as good. Add it makes a nice pink color for the applesauce Shirley in Olympia, wa where we have 5 inches of snow and everythings frozen underneath and above
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Diana
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Posted - Dec 18 2008 : 4:54:28 PM
My mom would coreout the apple and fill the hole with redhots and bake them. And they were so good with cream over them warm from the oven. But there is something I never saw her do because I have never been able to make them the same way.
Diana
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Farm Kitchen: cinnamon applesauce with red-hot candies
cinnamon applesauce with red-hot candies
Posted - Nov 29 2008 : 7:52:57 PM
