applesauce

I must first make a dish of apple-sauce for the seven and seventy guests who are coming to my wedding-feast.
The Nursery, July 1873, Vol. XIV. No. 1|Various
He was a fat man—eating roast pork, and apple-sauce, and mashed potatoes, and bread.
Love's Pilgrimage|Upton Sinclair
You can make nice apple sauce with evaporated apples, but they must be soaked over night.
The ABC of Cooking|Adelin Balch Coit
Plain apple pies—so plain as to become mere apple sauce—are far from being very objectionable.
Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages|William Andrus Alcott

First one and then another plunged his fist in that apple sauce and stuck it down his throat.
Old Rail Fence Corners|Various

British Dictionary definitions for applesauce

apple sauce

noun

a purée of stewed apples often served with pork

US and Canadian old-fashioned, slang nonsense; rubbish

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