Recipe For Crock Pot Apple Butter For Canning
Cover and cook on low for 10 to 12 hours or until apples are deeply golden and falling apart.
Recipe for crock pot apple butter for canning. Continue cooking in the slow cooker until it is the consistency you like. Add 1 cup of water or apple cider or juice if you have any on hand. Spices to taste i use 1 tsp cinnamon 1 4 tsp ground cloves and 1 4 tsp salt in a bowl mix sugar cinnamon cloves and salt.
Run a knife or a thin spatula around the insides of the jars after they have been filled to remove any air bubbles. Wipe the rims of the jars with a moist paper towel to remove any food residue. If you don t cut the apple thinly for whatever reason you can still just cook it in the crockpot for 8 12 hours.
That s my favorite part of this process. Top with lids and screw on rings. Pour this mixture over the apples stirring to combine.
I cooked apple butter over about 12 hours in the crock pot yesterday and canned it using the water bath method pints processed 15 min but looking back at my recipe i realized that i didn t bring the mixture to a complete boil before ladling it into jars. Canning instructions to can this crock pot apple butter sterilize your canning jars lids and rings and pour hot apple butter into jars leaving 1 2 inch head space. Place apples in slow cooker in thirds layering sugar between each layer.
Watching it go from whole apple slices to apple butter in just a few turns of the whisk. All of the jars sealed properly. Cover and cook on high for 1 hour.
Pack apple butter into the hot sterilized jars filling the jars to within 1 4 inch of the top. Wipe the rims of the jars with a damp towel or paper towel and place the lids and rings on the jars finger tight. Reduce heat to low.