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Apple Butter

Source of Recipe

Marcia Adams "Cooking from Quilt Country", pg. 116


Recipe Introduction

Made simple in the crockpot

List of Ingredients

7 cups applesauce, *see Note
2 cups apple cider
1 1/2 cups honey
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp ground cloves
1/2 tsp allspice


Recipe

In a crockpot mix all ingredients. Cover and cook on LOW for 14-15 hours or until mixture is a deep brown. Pack while hot into 4 hot pint jars. Process in a hot water bath for 10 minutes, counting the time after the jars have been immersed and the water comes again to a rolling boil. This is a simple version but it tastes just like the old-fashioned kind, baked down in a copper kettle over an open fire. Sweetened with honey, it has a smooth, smooth texture. Makes 4 pints.


Note: Preferably homemade, but a good-quality commercial kind, unsweetened, can be substituted