Apple Butter

"You can also use other fruit beside apples and you can use the pulp in the jelly bag after the juice has been extracted."
 
Download
photo by a food.com user photo by a food.com user
Ready In:
6hrs
Ingredients:
9
Yields:
2 quarts
Serves:
20
Advertisement

ingredients

Advertisement

directions

  • Place peeled apples, cider and vinegar in a large enamel pan and place in oven at 350 F for 3 hours or until really soft.
  • Stir every half hour.
  • Stir in sugar and spice.
  • Return to oven for approx.
  • another 1 1/2 hours.
  • Stir every half hour.
  • All apples are different and spices vary so much, taste for sweetness and spiciness and add more if needed.
  • To test, spoon a small amount unto a chilled plate.
  • It is done when no liquid oozes out from apple butter.
  • You can pour hot into 4 hot sterilized pint jars and seal Or keep a quart jar in the fridge and freeze the rest.
  • Note: You don't have to use the oven but if you do use a stove top method, watch it like a hawk, stir constantly and use a good heavy botomed pan.
  • It will burn easily if you aren't careful.

Questions & Replies

Got a question? Share it with the community!
Advertisement

Reviews

  1. I love this recipe. It is simple, and tastes great. The taste is amazing, and you don't have to hover over it to keep the apples from scorching the side of a pan. I usually double or triple the batch because we get apples by the bucket from my husband's grandpa. It still turns out great. I think you would have to try to mess this recipe up. It is AWESOME!
     
  2. Oh little Chick! You are so smart! I do the same thing with the pulp! ie., grapes, strawberries, and plums, etc..., Love jam too! I could never throw away anything! I must have been a very poor pioneer in a past life! :) Such good info for new fruit users!
     
Advertisement

RECIPE SUBMITTED BY

Zaar...Wow, what a place! I'm one of the old timers of Zaar. I can't count the number of wonderful dishes I cooked in the past few years since joining. Along the way I have had the pleasure of meeting several Zaar chefs. Talk about your fruits and nuts! lol. I have enjoyed meeting them all. Family: What's to say...I have had the same sweet husband forever (Good thing....I'd hate to have to break a new one in...=) and live close to a couple of grown children. (Maybe you've met Smoke Alarm Jr. ..her brown rolls are sooo good!) Therefore, my family gets together often to enjoy each other's company and cooking. My greatest joy is six "little to tallerthanme" kids running around calling me Grammy. They wear me out! lol For the past thirty years I have been a Special Education teacher for grades 9-12 and love it. Took some time off last year to recovery from surgery, chemotherapy and radiation for breast cancer. (Loved the radiation....I keep imagining that we are absolutely napalming the nasty cancer cells tohellandback to keep the little suckers from returning. =) My prognosis is good and now "I'm back in the saddle again". lol. Being a north country "gurl", I am happiest outside...walking, fishing, sitting in front of an outdoor fire or being on water (although in February it's a bit stiff....=0) When indoors I like to read, garden, knit, quilt and paint. During cold Maine weather I like to warm my feet on a very large ( 100 pounds of long legs and huge feet), sweet and furry golden retriever named Kerry (aka KTBRD: Kerry the big red dawg..lol) . In the summer, the dawg and I round up the grandkids, hit the local dairy bar for a Mounds Sundae that is to die for!!!=0) . Then spend a lot of long and lazy summer days at camp . All in all...Boy, Life is good! =)
 
View Full Profile
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement

Find More Recipes