Name: Fresh Raspberry Applesauce
Yield: Yield: about 3 cups
Cuisine: United States
Ingredients: Salt; About 2 pounds flavorful apples, unpeeled, cored, and cut into chunks (6 cups; sweet varieties with lots of character, such as Gravenstein, Gala, Braeburn, and Jonathan; A few drops of rose water (optional); Light floral honey (orange blossom would be perfect) or sugar (optional); About 2 cups raspberry-or other berry-flavored fruit juice such as raspberry-cranberry, apple-raspberry, or apple-strawberry (use pure, unsweetened juice, not juice cocktail, if possible); 1 vanilla bean, split; 1 cup fresh raspberries (about 6 ounces)

Preparation info

Yield: about
3 cups

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Jewish Holiday Cooking

By Jayne Cohen

Published 2008

About

Is there a blessing for a sewing machine?” Tzeitel, Tevye’s daughter, asks the rabbi in Fiddler on the Roof. “There is a blessing for everything,” she is assured.

In addition to the well-known prayers Jews recite when eating bread or drinking wine, there are many blessings to be uttered when relishing the beauty of the universe: seeing a rainbow, inhaling aromatic spices, and a charming one reserved for enjoying especially fragrant fruits.

That is the one for this ras