Adventures in Bread and Applesauce

Every year around Christmas time I tell myself I’ll make homemade applesauce. See, Swedes like it with their ham, and sometimes I like it on my beet salad sandwiches since, as a vegetarian, I don’t partake of the meaty bits. But as a master of procrastination, I always put it off until the last minute creeps up, which inevitably ends up in us buying a jar of store-bought stuff.

Fortunately this year I was well motivated. I had a bunch of apples in the fridge that were too mushy for me to eat r...