Description
Learn how to make delicious homemade apple butter with this easy canning recipe. Perfect for spreading on toast or using in your favorite recipes, this spiced apple spread is a fall favorite.
Ingredients
Scale
Apples:
- 6 pounds apples, peeled, cored, and chopped
Apple Cider Mixture:
- 4 cups apple cider or apple juice
Sugar and Spices:
- 3 cups granulated sugar
- 1 cup packed brown sugar
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
Lemon Juice:
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
Instructions
- Cook Apples: In a large pot, cook apples and apple cider until soft.
- Puree: Use a blender to puree the mixture until smooth.
- Add Ingredients: Stir in sugars, spices, salt, and lemon juice.
- Simmer: Cook the mixture until thick and spreadable.
- Canning: Ladle hot apple butter into jars, process in a canner, and cool before storing.
Notes
- Use a mix of sweet and tart apples for the best flavor.
- Properly canned jars last up to one year, refrigerate open jars.
- Prep Time: 30 minutes
- Cook Time: 2 hours
- Category: Preserves, Spread
- Method: Stovetop, Canning
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 tablespoon
- Calories: 30
- Sugar: 7 g
- Sodium: 5 mg
- Fat: 0 g
- Saturated Fat: 0 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 0 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 8 g
- Fiber: 0 g
- Protein: 0 g
- Cholesterol: 0 mg
