APPLE BUTTER

Yield: 6 - 250 ml bottles
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 2 hours 10 minutes
Serving: Family

By Bonita's Kitchen October 11, 2020

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If you are looking for a delicious recipe for APPLE BUTTER, I have a recipe just for you available here. Just continue on to our recipe and we have a video tutorial with step by step instructions on how to make it. You can use store bought apples or freshly picked apples for this recipe, I'm using freshly picked macintosh apples but you decide what apple works for you. So sit back and make yourself a cup of tea and enjoy. 🙂

No need to peel the apples, just wash well and cut into half's or quarters and leave the stems, stones in the apple to add more pectin to your sauce.

**APPLES CUT IN HALF AND QUARTERS, PEEL, STEMS AND STONES STAY IN.**

I hope you are still excited to make our recipe here today for APPLE BUTTER, this is pretty much a spread, or relish to serve with a meal, bread, crackers or morning breakfast. 🙂

Apples are boiling and turning into a stew.

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Ingredients

Apples - 6 or 7 pounds, 2 bags
Granulated sugar - 2 - 1/2 cups, less or more if needed
Apple cider vinegar - 1 - 1/4 cups
Water - 2 - 1/2 cups
Sea salt - 1/2 tsp
Lemon Juice - 2 tbsp
Cinnamon - 2 tsp
Allspice - 1/2 tsp
Ginger - 1/2 tsp, fresh or ground
Cloves - 1/2 tsp

Instructions

In a large pan wash your apples good, the apples you use is of your choice.

After cut apples into wedges and place in large boiler, leave skin on and stones in this will give you extra pectin released from the apples, but cut all bruising off.

Then add water, apple cider vinegar and sea salt to boiler with lid and bring to a boil on medium heat, after its reached the boiling point reduce heat to low/simmer for about 10 or 15 minutes, until apples have soften and broken apart.

After using a sieve with spatula or potato ricer, add cooked apple sauce and press through into a bowl, leaving the stems, peels and seeds behind, only keep the juice and flesh put back in the boiler to start cooking again.

Leaving all of the stems, peels and seeds behind for your compose. Then add sugar, spices, lemon juice and start to boil on a low to medium heat, stirring occasionally.

Make sure sauce don’t burn or stick to the bottom of the boiler.

Test the sauce to see if you need to add more sugar to your taste, keep stirring until apple mixture is thick and smooth. The colour will darken a little as the apples sauce condenses and slowly goes thicker. This can take about 1 to 2 hours on the low to medium heat to become a smooth and thick spread. “ USE A COLD PLATE TO CHECK IF SAT” scoop a small amount on cold plate if it sets it ready to bottle if it don’t leave for another few minutes to continue condensing.

Test after the first 1 hour to see if the apple butter got enough sugar and if you need more, apple got its own sweetest so if you wish to only had half the sugar first and the other half if needed. if the apple butter is to your liking and its soft and spreadable your apple butter is DONE. After you can prepare your jars by following our sterilizing and canning procedure and you will need about 4 - 500ml jars or 6 - 250ml if you wish use the smallest jars so you can use them as GIFTS for Christmas or special occasions, or use jars of choice, you can also freeze the apple butter in single containers or vacuum sealed bags and remove as needed.

Bottle and seal then store in your fridge or cold storage until eaten, if frozen keep only for 6 months. After apple butter is opened keep in the fridge until eaten or within a few weeks.

I’m so glad you are enjoying our apple butter recipe, now there are many version of this apple butter and they are all lovely. But continue on to more beautiful photos of our recipe here today for APPLE BUTTER.

**Apple cider vinegar is a very important ingredient in our apple butter recipe.**

Any brand of apple cider vinegar will work, use whats available for you.

**CINNAMON, CLOVES, ALLSPICE, GINGER, FRESHLY PICKED APPLES, APPLE CIDER VINEGAR.**

**Apple butter is spicy and a dark thick spreadable butter.**

Having your mason jars boiled and ready to scoop the apple butter into the jars, Sterilizing and Canning Procedures this is our link if you wish to know what to do.