Great Crockpot Apple Butter
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I love No Sugar Added apple butter. What if you could cook up a great crockpot of apple butter that is No Sugar Added? For years I was buying a No Sugar Added apple butter from the supermarket. Unfortunately, they stopped carrying the brand. I was stuck, no apple butter, and my source had dried up. So I started looking for a sugar-free or No Sugar Added apple butter recipe. I viewed several videos on the making of apple butter and kept track of the techniques they used. I knew that when the search was over I wanted the perfect recipe for me. This is the recipe that I developed and have been using since I started to make my own apple butter.
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What’s Important To Know and Use
- Use an Immersion blender when the apples are soft-cooked to speed up the cooking process.An immersion blender, or stick blender is a kitchen appliance to blend ingredients or puree food in the container in which they are being prepared.- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immersion_blender
- Use non-tart apples, Fuji’s are really good.
Immersion Blender Use
- Peel, thinly slice, and core the apples.
- The finished apple butter will be spiced with cinnamon, cloves, and allspice.
- Apple cider vinegar will give it a kick but not overpower the apple flavor.
- No Sugar Added, the apples provide all the sugar you need.
- It will have a dark brown color to it and has a sheen when it is done.
- Use the upside-down spoon technique(see below) to check for consistency.
- Use an Immersion blender when the apples are soft-cooked to speed up the cooking process.
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Some cooks use the non-movement or water separation methods of the apple butter on a cold plate, I don’t, I just cook the apple butter until it is thick. Thick enough so that the apple butter doesn’t fall off a teaspoon turned upside down(see video below). This is the test I use. I feel that this test delivers more consistent results. This results in an apple butter that is very dark and spreadable on bread or bagels and is definitely not runny.
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The Recipe
Ingredients
- 10-12 pounds of Fuji apples
- 1/2 cup apple cider vinegar
- 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1 teaspoon ground allspice
Directions
- Peel, core, and thinly slice the apples using a machine like this one.
- In a crockpot set to high, place apples and vinegar cover and cook covered overnight(approximately 8 hours).
- Use an immersion blender to puree the apples.
- Set crockpot to Low, and cook the apples covered for another 8 hours.
- Stir in cinnamon, clove, and allspice, and cook the apples covered for an additional 4 hours.
- Uncover the crockpot and reduce the apple mixture until you can execute an upside-down spoonful of apple butter.
The Finished Product
The finished product will be:
- Dark from the cooking and spices.
- Very thick, so thick that a teaspoon full of apple butter can be turned upside down and the apple butter will not leave the spoon.
- The apple butter will be sweet from the sugars already in the apple. Hence No Sugar Added.
- The flavor of the apple butter will have a special kick from the apple cider vinegar but have no vinegar flavor.
- So darn good you won’t share with anyone. But you will share the recipe(I hope).
- Your house will smell yummy for a couple of days.
- The apple butter can be stored if you use a proper canning method or if properly frozen.
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