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Apple Juice, Sauce & Butter

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Ingredients  

  • 4 lbs Granny Smith apples
  • 4 lbs Roma apples
  • 4 cups water
  • 1 Tbsp cinnamon
  • ½ tsp cloves
  • ¼ tsp allspice
  • ¼ cup honey

Steps 

Start with Apple Juice.
  1. Wash and slice apples. Place in pot with water. Heat water to boiling, reduce heat and simmer for 30 minutes.
  2. Strain apple solids though colander, retaining liquid.
  3. If you want clearer apple juice, filter liquid through cheese cloth or coffee filter.
Then Apple Sauce
  1. Run the apple solids from above though a food mill. Season with cinnamon, as desired.
Go all the way for Apple Butter
  1. After, pushing apples though food mill, put apple sauce into slow cooker along with spices and sweetener (sugar or splenda work as well as honey). Adjust amounts according to taste.
  2. Cook on low for 6-12 hours, until apple butter reaches desired consistency.
  3. Use hand-held immersion blender to smooth out apple butter.
Can Can
  1. For even more fun, fill pint or half-pint canning jars within 1/4 of top with apple butter. Top with sealing canning lids and process in boiling water bath for 5 minutes.