I see holiday recipes adding cranberries for color!
there should be a holiday for applesauce, since there is a holiday for zucchini (Aug 8)
I usually make apple sauce around now, too. I steam the fruit in the top of a steamer juicer and put it thru a strainer...like baby food!
Check out the song Applesauce, a cute little love song by Christopher Smith on his "album" Sweet River Grace. It can be found on my radio show which is archived on orovilleradio.org in fact the first hour is filled with all sorts of songs about apples--the show is called apples and ghosts...seasonal images abound!