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let me hear your voice tonight ([personal profile] alexseanchai) wrote2017-04-02 01:05 pm
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The Pioneer Woman's homemade applesauce looks a tasty.

When reading the pre-recipe text, skip straight from "And, most importantly, it" in the first paragraph to "is really easy to make!" in the third. That way you dodge most of the ableism, lookism, and fatphobia that are probably the author's sad attempt at humor. Other lines to skip: the reasoning for substituting apple sauce in recipes that call for oil; the superlative description of butter-free applesauce.

...wait, crap. Is the lemon juice important? How important is the lemon juice? Can I substitute an equal amount of apple cider in addition to the rest of the apple cider needed? Because I don't really want to go buy lemon juice, on account of I don't use the stuff. (Or rather, when I do find occasion to use it, I'm almost certainly cooking in Mom's kitchen anyway, and she's always got a bottle of reconstituted-with-water lemon juice concentrate in her fridge. But I do not feel like hauling my ~4lb apples to her house tonight, just so I can steal her lemon juice to make applesauce.)

ETA: [personal profile] kaberett is an help. To wit: the lemon juice is entirely skippable. :)
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[personal profile] clare_dragonfly 2017-04-02 06:24 pm (UTC)(link)
My guess would be that the lemon juice is just to preserve the color--is that what [personal profile] kaberett said?