Old Pappies Crock Pot Apple Butter
Ingredients
- 12 - 12 14 apples (Jonathan or Winesap)
- 2 cups apple juice
- sugar
- cinnamon
- allspice
- cloves
- 1/2 cup sauterne (optional)
Instructions
- Wash, core and quarter apples (don't peel). Combine apples and apple juice in lightly oiled crock pot. Cook on low (10 to 18 hours) or high (2 to 4 hours) until tender.
- Put fruit through food mill to remove peel
- Measure fruit and return to crock pot.
- For each pint of sieved, cooked fruit add 1 cup sugar, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, 1/2 teaspoon allspice and 1/2 teaspoon cloves.
- Stir and cook on high for 6 to 8 hours, stirring every 2 hours.
- Remove cover after first 3 hours to let it cook down. Add sauterne for last hour of cooking.
- Spoon into hot sterilized jars. Can in boiling hot water bath for 10 minutes.
- Makes approximately 5 -1/2 pint jars ( jelly jars under canning supplies in most supermarkets) .