For those of you who are friends of mine on Facebook, (which is just about all of you reading this since I have so few followers) you may remember my status about me making apple butter earlier this week. I'd never made it before but I have had the joy of eating homemade and decided to give it a try.
Considering we have a local orchard with many types of apples to choose from, they were naturally the place I went to pick out my apples.
The recipe I chose called for 16 apples. Considering I have no canning experience as well as knowing a move is coming up in our horizon I went ahead and quartered the recipe. It worked out great and we have a good amount of apple butter-y goodness to enjoy for a while.
Oh, and its a super easy recipe. You don't have to slave over a hot stove all day and you get to enjoy the savory fall smell that wafts through your home as it cooks in the crockpot all day long. Genius, huh? In fact, you almost want a stray visitor to ring your doorbell so they can get pummeled with the scrumptious smell of fall, show-casing your domestic diva skills when you open the door. :o)
Crock Pot Apple Butter {yields 5 pints}
16 peeled (I used 4), cored & chopped apples {I used Johnna-Golds as was suggested by the Orchards}
1 1/2 C white sugar
1 C light brown sugar
2 T cinnamon
1/2 t ground cloves
1/2 t ground nutmeg
1/2 t kosher salt
Place all ingredients in crock pot and stir so all apples are coated.
Cook on HIGH for 1 hour. Reduce to LOW for 8 to 10 hours; stir occasionally.
Place mixture in food processor and pulse until it reaches the desired consistency.
The only thing I highly suggest is that you make sure you have something to put it on so you can immediately enjoy the fruits of your labor. We were actually out of bread, biscuits, anything you could think of to put it on. Tragic, I tell ya. (Man, I'm in an interesting writing mood).
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That looks really good - pulling out the crockpot, now... (too bad our crockpot's HUGE - guess I'll have the half the recipe...?)
ReplyDeleteEnjoy the "fruits" of your labor. :) Ha! Apple butter sounds like a fun thing to make.
ReplyDeleteYou don't have any news about that "move on the horizon" do you?
And...glad Eli is feeling better! He looks so sad in that photo.
Update - house smells AWESOME!! (Logan doesn't agree, even though he helped me make it - I told him it smells like Fall, and said, "no, it stinks!")
ReplyDeleteResult - Keith and Maddie loved it, and it was a little sweet for me (though, I must have done something wrong - we went from 8 apples to not even a pint of apple butter). Thanks for sharing!!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the recipe and inspiration :) I have apple butter simmering on the stove as we speak, can't wait to taste it!
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