Goes great with porkchops

You might as well call me Mott or Musselman, the way I love applesauce.  Peggy too - it's one of the 5 foods on which we agree!

As a kid, I picked apples off the trees in the backyard in September, and Mom cleaned them and pared them and cooked them and ground them up in an ancient device called a "mill" and then filled up a couple dozen plastic tubs and froze them. We had applesauce for a year, until the next harvest.

I heard of people buying store-bought applesauce but it seemed sort of foolish, what with trees right in our back yard dropping Granny Smiths on the heads of the unsuspecting. 

When we got married and had no free apples, I could have bought a bagful and made our own, but we didn't have the mill, or the room to store it, or the desire to go through all those steps, so I went into the shadows and bought applesauce from shifty dealers who sold "Tangy Green" from the trunks of their cars behind the tire store.

No, just kidding. We bought it by the jar from supermarkets, and lately we buy it in those little one-serving cups because why not?

But it was sad to read about this from Illinois the other day, where they had to shut down the highway in Franklin County because a semi overturned while speeding to get a truckload of the good green stuff to the food warehouse, and crews had to get that mess up by the shovelful.

No other vehicles were involved in the wreck on northbound I-57 down by mile marker 76. No one was hurt; the driver was embarrassed, though.

The total damage was 46,000 lbs. of applesauce - the equivalent of 184,000 4-ounce applesauce containers.

No estimate was available on how much nutmeg would be required to season that much applesauce.