How To Make Apple Butter Thick
Watch me make this thick and creamy apple butter from start to finish.
How to make apple butter thick. With only three ingredients in the recipe apples water and sugar it was an easy project for an overabundance of fruit. To make homemade apple butter all you have to do is stick some apples in a crock pot with brown sugar white sugar vanilla cinnamon and a dash of salt. Apple butter is a luscious fruit spread made by slow cooking apples until their sugars naturally carmelize. Looking for apple butter.
Apple butter is common throughout eastern europe. Then i add spices. Uncover and cook on low for an hour longer. Cook just a little more.
Apple butter is cooked longer than applesauce which creates a thick smooth intense apple flavored spread. Today we have microwaves and slow cookers that take the drudgery out of keeping a watchful eye on the pot. This recipe easily can be increased. Like seriously i have to make at least one batch of apple butter every year.
How to make apple butter easily. Making apple butter is so simple that i didn t trust it at first. I usually cook the apples in just a little water skins seeds and all then put them through a food mill so i have pure apple pulp. If you like your apple butter to have a dark rich flavor cook it for 15 20 minutes.
Historically apple butter was cooked over a very low fire sometimes for days at a time until the apples transformed into a deep brown and took on a thick consistency. Scroll down this page and follow the links. Usually around this time is when the craving hits. Then puree them just as you would for the stovetop recipe.
I had to experiment and was nervous but it is truly a set it and forget it recipe. Let it sit there all day stirring occasionally and boom. It s apple butter time. And if you bring home some fruit or vegetables and want to can freeze make jam salsa or pickles see this page for simple reliable illustrated canning freezing or preserving directions there are plenty of other related resources click on the resources dropdown above.
Cook the apple butter just long enough to melt the sugar intensify the spices and thicken the apple butter to your desired consistency. If desired stir with a wire whisk until smooth. To make a slow cooker apple butter cook the apples cider brown sugar and spices on high heat uncovered for about 2 hours or until soft. Apples have natural pectin so it will set up by itself after you have simmered it long enough.