Homemade Applesauce

Name: Homemade Applesauce
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 40 min
Total time: 55 min
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 4 pounds (about 8 to 10 apples, depending on the size) apples, peeled, cored, and quartered (use apples varieties that are good for cooking such as Granny Smith, Pippin, Gravenstein, Mcintosh, Fuji, Jonathan, Jonagold, or Golden Delicious); 2 strips lemon peel (use a vegetable peeler to strip the zest only, not the pith); 3 tablespoons lemon juice or apple cider vinegar (more or less to taste); 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon; Up to 1/2 cup white sugar (can sub half of the white sugar with brown sugar); 1 cup water; 1/2 teaspoon of salt