Apple butter

Apple butter, a wonderful recipe to preserve the best of the autumn apples.

Ingredients

5 pounds apple (peeled cored and cut into eighths)
2 cups lemon juice
1⁄2 teaspoon cinnamon (ground)
1⁄4 teaspoon clove (ground)
1 pinch nutmeg (ground)
  sugar (1/2 sugar cup per 1 cup apple pulp)

Instructions

  1. In a 8 quart sauce pan, combine cider apples and lemon juice. Bring to a boil and cook for thirty minutes, stirring occasionally. Puree the apple mix, and then add the spices.
  2. Simmer for 35 minutes over a low heat until very think. You must stir constantly.
  3. After it has thickened, measure the pulp to see how much sugar will be needed.
  4. Return the pulp only to the sauce pan, and bring it back to a boil. Add sugar and remove from heat.
Yield
6 servings
Preparation time 20 minutes
Cooking time 45 minutes
Total time
1 hour, 5 minutes

Notes

To add sugar, measure apple pulp. For every cup of pulp, you will need 1/2 cup sugar.

Source

North American cuisine

Apples are one of the top crops in New Hampshire, and there are plenty of recipes to use those delicious apples.

moderate, fruit
preserves, spreads
New Hampshire food recipes
Food in U.S.A.