All Night Apple Butter Food

APPLE BUTTER

Steps:

• Fill Crock-pot 3/4 full with cored and sliced apples.
• Add the remaining ingredients and stir until evenly mixed.
• Cover and cook on low setting overnight or until the butter is of a thick, spreadable consistency.
• Use immersion blender to purée and incorporate skins into the apple butter.
• If apple butter has too much liquid, remove lid and cook on high until thickened. Stir often as butter thickens to prevent scorching.

ALL-DAY APPLE BUTTER

Steps:

• Place the apples in a slow cooker. In a medium bowl, mix the sugar, cinnamon, cloves and salt. Pour the mixture over the apples in the slow cooker and mix well.
• Cover and cook on high 1 hour.
• Reduce heat to low and cook 9 to 11 hours, stirring occasionally, until the mixture is thickened and dark brown.
• Uncover and continue cooking on low 1 hour. Stir with a whisk, if desired, to increase smoothness.
• Spoon the mixture into sterile containers, cover and refrigerate or freeze.

APPLE BUTTER

Steps:

• In a Dutch oven over medium heat, melt butter and add apples. Cook apples until slightly softened, about 5 minutes. Add cider, bring to a boil, and reduce heat to a simmer. Let simmer, partially covered and stirring occasionally, until soft, about 30 minutes.
• Preheat oven to 250 degrees. Mash softened apples with a potato masher. Remove from heat and add lemon juice, lemon zest, and cinnamon. Using an immersion blender, puree mixture until smooth.
• Pour apple mixture evenly into a baking dish. Transfer to oven and bake, stirring occasionally, until thickened and reduced, about 3 to 3 1/2 hours. Let cool before serving. Apple butter may be kept, refrigerated in an airtight container, up to 5 days.

ALL-DAY APPLE BUTTER

Steps:

• Place apples in a 3-qt. slow cooker. Combine sugar, cinnamon, cloves and salt; pour over apples and mix well. Cover and cook on high for 1 hour. , Reduce heat to low; cover and cook for 9-11 hours or until thickened and dark brown, stirring occasionally (stir more frequently as it thickens to prevent sticking). , Uncover and cook on low 1 hour longer. If desired, stir with a wire whisk until smooth. Spoon into freezer containers, leaving 1/2-in. headspace. Cover and refrigerate or freeze.

ALL DAY APPLE BUTTER (CROCK POT)

Steps:

• Place the apples in a slow cooker. In a medium bowl, mix the sugar, cinnamon, cloves and salt. Pour the mixture over the apples in the slow cooker and mix well.
• Cover and cook on high 1 hour.
• Reduce heat to low and cook 9 to 11 hours, stirring occasionally, until the mixture is thickened and dark brown.
• Uncover and continue cooking on low 1 hour. Stir with a whisk, if desired, to increase smoothness.
• Spoon the mixture into sterile containers, cover and refrigerate or freeze.

CROCK POT ALL DAY APPLE BUTTER

Steps:

• Place diced apples in slow cooker. Mix sugars, cornstarch, vanilla, salt and spices in mixing bowl, pour over apples, and stir to coat. Cook on high 2 hours, stirring occasionally until sugar is melted and syrup starts to form. Turn heat to low setting and cook for approximately 6-8 hours.
• Ladle into blender in small batches, blending until smooth and pouring out into bowl, repeating until all the apples have been processed. I then can mine in jelly jars using the water bath method.

OVERNIGHT APPLE BUTTER

Steps:

• Combine all ingredients in a 5-quart electric slow cooker. Cover and cook on low 10 hours or until apples are very tender.
• Place a large fine-mesh sieve over a bowl; spoon one-third of apple mixture into sieve.
• Press mixture through sieve using the back of a spoon or ladle. Discard pulp. Repeat procedure with remaining apple mixture. Return apple mixture to slow cooker.
• Cook, uncovered, on high 1 1/2 hours or until mixture is thick, stirring occasionally. Spoon into a bowl; cover and chill up to a week.
• Stovetop variation: Combine all ingredients in a Dutch oven. Cover and cook over medium-low heat 1 hour or until apples are very tender, stirring occasionally.
• Strain through a sieve as recipe instructs in Step 2. Return mixture to pan. Cook, uncovered, over medium-low heat 15 minutes or until thick, stirring frequently.

ALL NIGHT APPLE BUTTER

Steps:

• Place apples in a slow cooker.
• Stir white sugar, brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and salt together in a bowl; pour over apples. Add enough water to moisten apples.
• Cook on Low, overnight or 10 hours.
• Stir vanilla extract into apples. Cook, uncovered, for 2 hours more.

ALL NIGHT APPLE BUTTER

Steps:

• Place apples in a slow cooker.
• Stir white sugar, brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and salt together in a bowl; pour over apples. Add enough water to moisten apples.
• Cook on Low, overnight or 10 hours.
• Stir vanilla extract into apples. Cook, uncovered, for 2 hours more.

ALL NIGHT APPLE BUTTER

Steps:

• Place apples in a slow cooker.
• Stir white sugar, brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and salt together in a bowl; pour over apples. Add enough water to moisten apples.
• Cook on Low, overnight or 10 hours.
• Stir vanilla extract into apples. Cook, uncovered, for 2 hours more.

OVERNIGHT APPLE BUTTER

Steps:

• Turn a slow cooker on high and add all ingredients. Cover and cook for 1 1/2 hours, stirring occasionally. Mixture should be bubbling vigorously. Reduce heat to low and cook for 1 hour more. Remove and discard star anise pod.
• With the lid set slightly ajar, continue cooking until apple butter is dark brown and thick, 7 to 9 hours more. Stir well and pass through a food mill or strainer, if necessary to remove any lumps.
• Place six clean 1-pint or twelve clean 1/2-pint jars right side up on a rack in a boiling-water canner. Fill canner and jars with hot water, about 1 inch above tops of jars. Bring jars to a boil over high heat; boil for 10 minutes. Using a jar lifter, remove and drain hot sterilized jars one at a time, reserving hot water for processing filled jars. Place jars on a wire rack set over a rimmed baking sheet.
• In another large pot filled with water, bring to a boil over high heat and reduce to a simmer, then add clean lids and lid rings. Simmer lids for 10 minutes; do not boil, as this may cause problems in sealing jars. Drain lids and set aside.
• Divide apple butter evenly among sterilized jars, leaving 1/4 inch of space at top of each jar. Using tongs, place lids on jars. Using your hands, place rings on jars and tighten (but do not overtighten). Reheat water in the canner until it reaches at least 180 degrees, within 10 minutes of filling the jars. Place filled jars into the canner, one at a time, using a jar lifter securely positioned below neck of jar. Keep jars upright at all times.
• Add more boiling water, if needed, so that water covers jars by at least 1 inch. Increase heat to high and cover. Once water begins boiling, heat jars for 10 minutes. Turn off heat and gently transfer jars to a wire rack set over a rimmed baking sheet, taking care not to tilt jars and spacing each jar at least 1 inch apart. Avoid placing jars on a cold surface or near a cold draft.
• Let jars sit undisturbed until fully cooled, 12 to 24 hours. Do not tighten ring bands on the lids or push down on the center of the flat metal lid until jars have cooled completely.
• Once jars have cooled completely, test to make sure each jar is completely sealed: Press down on the middle of the lid with a finger. If lid springs up when finger is released, jar is unsealed. Store sealed jars in a cool place. If any of the jars are unsealed, store in refrigerator and use within several days.

APPLE BUTTER

Steps:

• In an 8- to 10-quart heavy kettle combine apples and cider.
• Bring to boiling and reduce heat.
• Simmer, covered, for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally.
• Press through a food mill or sieve until you have 8 1/2 cups.
• Return pulp to kettle.
• Stir in sugar, cinnamon, cloves, and allspice.
• Bring to boiling and reduce heat.
• Cook, uncovered, over low heat 1 1/2 hours or until thick and mixture mounds on a spoon, stirring often.
• Boiling-Water Canning: Ladle hot apple butter into hot, sterilized half-pint canning jars heaving 1/4 inch headspace. Wipe jam jars and adjust lids. Process in a boiling water canner for 5 minutes (start timing when water returns to boil). Remove jars and cool on rack.
• Freezing: Place the kettle of apple butter in a sink filled with ice water. Stir mixture to cool. Ladle into half-pint wide-top freezer containers, leaving a 1/2 inch headspace. Seal and label and freeze up to 10 months. Apple butter may darken slightly on freezing.