Apple Sauce

 Greg’s Slow Cooker Apple Sauce


Time: 20 minutes

Cook Time: 4 hours

Serving Size: your preference 

Ingredients: Lots of Apples!

1. Peel and wash a large number of apples. 
2. Core the apples. I use an Apple Corer and Divider.
3. Cut the apple slices into chunks. Cut into as small of pieces as you have time and patience.
4. Cram as many apples into the slow cooker as you can. You can overfill as cooking apples will replace the air pockets with sauce.
5. Set the slow cooker to Low.
6. Occasionally stir the apples.
7. When the apples become mushy and turn to sauce as you stir, you are done.
8. Serve homemade apple sauce warm, refrigerate for near term use, or freeze for long term enjoyment.

Submitted By: Greg Friese, EMT-Paramedic

Wisconsin, USA

Contest: Nationwide EMT

Jai's Holiday Ham

Prep Time: 15 minutes

Cook Time: 2 hours and 45 minutes

Serving Size: 30

12-13 lb. bone-in Ham

1 cup Light Brown Sugar

1- 12 oz Coca-Cola Classic

2 tbsp. Yellow Mustard

1 jar Maraschino Cherries

1 can Pineapple Slices (in juice)

Tooth picks

Place ham in large Roasting pan (I prefer magnalite oval roaster with lid).  Place pineapples on top on ham and reserve juice for glaze. Place cherries in center of pineapples (reserve cherry juice also). Use tooth picks to secure cherries and pineapple. 

In a mixing bowl, combine brown sugar, mustard, cherry and pineapple juice, and Coca-Cola. Mix into a syrup and pour over ham.  Cover with lid or foil and bake at 325 degrees fir 2 hours 45 minutes, basting periodically. 

Submitted By: Jai Bourg, EMT-Basic

Louisiana, USA

Contest: Nationwide EMT