raw applesauce

[Martha27]

I have been making applesauce and all things apple the past 2 weeks b/c we got a whole truck full of drops from a local orchard. The apples are all way over ripe and therefore make awesome sauce and dry up into great fruit leathers! today I was blending/pureeing some up for a batch of leathers and noticed that it really was the best applesauce ever! my question is has anyone every tried freezing raw applesauce and does it freeze as well as the cooked version? I have been cooking mine by just boiling the apples with some rasins and then mashing and putting in freezer bags but I think im going to start skipping the boiling and just use the blender if it freezes well.

[serenbat]

how do you make RAW? I have to cook my apples when I make it. You can freeze raw, un--cooked apples but usually they turn brown.

[Martha27]

to make the leathers I am just putting the peeled and cored apple quarters into my food proccessor and blending them until they are pureed and smooth like regular applesauce. So it pretty much is applesauce just the apples are never cooked. It has kind of an apple cider taste to it and taste great just as is so im hoping I can freeze it to enjoy over the winter

[serenbat]

tried freezing raw applesauce and does it freeze as well as the cooked version?

to make the leathers I am just putting the peeled and cored apple quarters into my food proccessor and blending them until they are pureed and smooth like regular applesauce.

I thought/must have misunderstood?? - were asking about sauce (being made RAW, not keeping it as leather?

I slow cook my sauce so that the color of the skins gets deeper. I never boil it and I freeze it when it cools and it retains the color.

The only thing that would concern me is a change in the color as well as the taste (some fruits change taste when frozen raw)-since you are not heating it at all. I don't freeze apples in that state that you describe.

[Martha27]

yeah sorry, my post was kinda all over the place there! not wanting to freeze leather just wondering about the uncooked pureed applesauce. I might just try one batch and see how it fairs after a little while in the freezer. Might also just keep some on hand in the fridge until the apples run out