One of the most popular activities during the fall is going apple picking! If you are like either one of us and have a ton of leftover apples, then this is a great recipe for you! You can put apple butter on anything including: bread, pretzels, pork chops, potato pancakes, ribs, and much much more! If you like applesauce better than apple butter, this recipe also can be used for applesauce, just only cook it for 4 hours. It is very simple to make and is perfect for canning as well and can be frozen up to one year or refrigerated up to 1 week.
Ingredients: 10-13 apples chopped into very thin slices (no need to peel if you use a foley mill), any variety except red delicious (gala, jonathan, honeycrisp, macintosh, jazz, crimson crown, and cortland all work great, get a variety of apples both sweet and sour to really make it taste good) 1-2 cups of sugar (may need even more depending on how sweet you want it) 1 teaspoon of vanilla 5-8 cinnamon sticks 1-4 teaspoons of cinnamon (start with one and add more as needed) 1-4 teaspoons of nutmeg (start with one and add more as needed) 1-2 teaspoons of ground cloves 1/4 cup of water Instructions: 1. Mix together all ingredients into a 6+ quart slow cooker 2. cook on low for 8-12 hours (plan on 12 for better flavor) 3. Pull out the cinnamon sticks 4. Take the apple butter and put it into a foley mill (picture at bottom) and churn into a large bowl until all of the apple butter is through the foley mill 5. Can the apple butter and store it in the refrigerator for up to one week or the freezer for up to one year 6. Enjoy! Let us know in the comments if you have made apple butter before!
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Both of us really love to cook, and we each have come up with some pretty good recipes. We will share them here!
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