Apple Sauce

This is a wonderfully adaptable basic sauce that has loads of uses, serving with pork as a main course or using for a pudding as a filling for a tart, pie, turnover, crunch, crisp or crumble. For the sweet dishes add more sugar and double the amount of apples.

Ingredients
1 large Bramley apple
1 to 3 tablespoons granulated sugar
1 dessertspoon water.

Method
1 Peel, core and cut the apple into quarters.
2 Cut each quarter into half.
3 Place into a saucepan.
4 Add the water.
5 Cover with a lid and place on the hob on a hot heat.
6 Bring the water boil.
7 Reduce the heat to a simmer and cook for about 5 minutes or until the apple tender.
8 Mash the apple pieces.
9 Add the sugar.
10 Cook for a minute.

Serve hot or cold with pork.

Notes
A pinch of cloves can be added if wished.

This sauce can be frozen for a couple of months at -18 degrees centigrade.