Here is an old fashioned style recipe for making homemade apple butter just like your granny used to make. No crock pots used here even if your granny had one. That is the old fashioned part of this recipe. So without further ado, lets get to the good part!
Ingredients
4 lbs granny smith apples
2 cups apple cider vinegar 1/2 cup honey
1 Tbsp. lemon juice
1 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 tsp Salt
1 Tbsp. Cinnamon
1 tsp Vanilla Extract
Directions
Preheat the oven to 250.
Core and peel apples and cut them into bite-size pieces.
Combine the apples, apple cider vinegar, brown sugar, honey and 1/2 teaspoon salt in a dutch oven or large sauce pot over medium heat.
Cook the apples until soft, approx. 20 minutes and stir often while they are cooking.
Remove from the heat and add lemon juice, cinnamon, and vanilla.
Puree the mixture until smooth with a potato masher or you can cheat and use a stick blender.
Put the mixture in dutch oven or a large oven safe casserole or pot and bake in the oven uncovered for 2.5 – 3 hours.
Stir every 30 minutes.
Cook until apples are the desired color, texture and consistency. They should be a deep rusty brown and thick like butter.
Remove mixture from oven and ladle into hot jars.
place lids on jars hand tight and process in a water bath canner.
10 minutes for pints and half pints.
15 minutes for quarts.
Let jars sit until cool.
Adjust times for your altitude
Low Altitude: under 1000 ft. subtract 5 minutes
High Altitude: over 6000 ft. add 5 minutes
When you are finished you are ready to add a beautiful personalized custom made label to your jars! I designed one especially for Apple Butter and you can get yours at my store The Jelly Jar HERE
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