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To me it's one word. Applesauce is not really a sauce, although it can be used that way. Mostly it's a food of its own. But the jar I just opened says "Apple Sauce" on the label.
To me it's one word. Applesauce is not really a sauce, although it can be used that way. Mostly it's a food of its own. But the jar I just opened says "Apple Sauce" on the label.
It's both one word and two. A lot of compound words exist in this state, sometimes one and sometimes separate.
Googling applesauce gives 13,000,000+ hits, apple sauce 7,000,000+. This confirms that both variants have wide currency. I'd probably use apple sauce, but the compounded form doesn't bother me.
As for whether or not it's a sauce is irrelevant. Crayfish aren't fish. Not all light bulbs are bulbs. Many drinking glasses aren't made of glass. That's English for you.
Down the country, it's "Oh, applesauce!" if you're using it as a term of frustration, but it's "apple sauce" if you're referring to the food. That's according to the hometown vernacular dictionary.
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