Combine apples, pecans, wine, sugar, and cinnamon in the bowl of a food processor fitted with the blade attachment. Pulse until coarsely chopped. Taste and adjust for seasoning.

This recipe yields 5 cups.

Comments: At the Passover seder, the springtime feast that ritualistically reenacts the Jewish exodus from Egyptian slavery, food takes a paramount role in telling an age-old story: Bitter herbs represent the harshness of slavery. Salt water indicates tears, eggs stand for fertility, and shank bones for the miracle of deliverance. There is even a sticky fruit-and-nut mixture called haroset to symbolize the bricks and mortar with which the slaves worked.