APPLE BUTTER
8 cups cored, peeled and sliced apples (about 8 medium)
About 4-1/2 cups water, added intermittently
1/2 cup dark brown sugar
Dash of salt
2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
Place apples and about 3/4 cup of water into heavy oven-proof saucepan. Bring to a boil; reduce heat, cover and cook until apples are soft. Mash until fairly smooth. Stir in brown sugar, salt and spices. Place in 300° F oven and continue to cook until dark brown. Add water as needed when mixture dries out. Cook until thick and spreadable. The entire process will take about 6 hours. Check the apple butter about every hour and stir well. Taste for seasoning and sweetness. If canning, place the apple butter in a pot on top of the stove and heat well. Fill sterilized half-pint or pint jars with hot apple butter, leaving 1/4-inch headspace. Adjust lids and process in a boiling water canner for 5 minutes at an altitude up to 1,000 feet, 10 minutes from 1,000 - 6,000 feet. Add 5 minutes processing time at each altitude for quart jars. (Processing times are based on guidelines provided by the USDA National Food Safety Database.)
http://teriskitchen.com/padutch/applebutter.html
2006-09-02 02:21:53
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answered by Swirly 7
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FRESH APPLE BUTTER
6 lbs. tart apples or pears
3 c. water
Sugar
1 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 tsp. cloves (optional)
Cut apples into quarters. Do not core, peel or seed fruit. Cover and cook for 30 to 40 minutes. Put through food mill. Measure. For each cup of apple pulp, mix in 1/2 cup sugar. Add spices (only 1 teaspoon cinnamon and 1/2 teaspoon cloves for whole amount). Turn into heavy kettle; cook and stir over medium heat until sugar dissolves. Cook, uncovered, over low heat, stirring occasionally until the mixture is thick and smooth, 1 1/2 to 2 hours. Ladle into hot, clean canning jars; adjust lids. Process 10 minutes in boiling water bath. Makes 5 pints.
http://www.cooks.com/rec/doc/0,1930,1531...
CROCK POT APPLE BUTTER
Put 3 quarts of apples, sliced thin, in a crock pot and cook overnight on high. Next morning, add 2 teaspoons cinnamon, 3 cups sugar, 1/2 teaspoon cloves. Cook all day on low. Tastes like old-fashioned apple butter that is cooked in copper kettle.
You can use applesauce if you do not have time to prepare the apples. The crock pot makes it possible for apples to cook a long time without being stirred.
http://www.cooks.com/rec/doc/0,1612,1581...
To make applesauce; all you need to do is wash, peel and core apples. Cut into slices or chunks; add a little water, (1/2 cup) stir and cook. The apples will absorb the water and breakdown into a sauce. For a smoother texture, mash or put through a sieve. Add sugar and cinnamon to taste. Very simple doesn't really matter what type of apples you use.
EASIEST EVER APPLESAUCE
Spartan apples
cinnamon to taste
No sugar or water is needed because these apples are sweet enough and moist enough without either.
Peel and core apples. Cut into 1" chunks.
In a saucepan, combine apple chunks and 1 teaspoon of ground cinnamon.
Cover and cook over medium low heat, stirring occassionally for approximately 15 minutes.
Remove from heat. Mash with a potato masher.
Serve.
http://www.cooks.com/rec/doc/0,1613,1311...
2006-09-02 02:10:41
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answered by Irina C 6
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no, but i can give you the recipe for doo-doo butter
2006-09-02 02:15:14
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answered by simonpink 2
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yea try this >> http://www.elise.com/recipes/archives/000119apple_butter.php
gd luck :D
2006-09-02 02:12:49
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answered by dodi 3
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