If you're looking for a tasty and affordable way to preserve your apple harvest, then look no further than this easy canning apple butter recipe! It's perfect for spreading on toast or muffins, and it makes a great gift for friends and family. Plus, with these tips, you'll be able to make the most delicious apple butter ever! So, what are you waiting for? Start canning today!
Can you get botulism from apple butter?
Many say you shouldn't can apple butter but as long as you get it past 248 degrees to kill botulism you will be fine. Do the sight and sniff test when opening ANY canned item and if an item doesn't seal properly put it in the fridge and use it within 5 days.
In 2015 there was only 140 deaths caused by botulism…and of those 140, only 2 were home canning related. One was due to improper processing times and the other was because they ate after the jar had unsealed.
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Is apple butter safe for canning?
Canning apple butter is a great way to make your apple harvest last for years to come. Canning apples as apple butter is simply one way to use up apples.
If you don't want to can it, you can store it in a mason jar and freeze it for storage if you have the room.
What you need for Canning Apple Butter
12 pounds of apples
4 cups of apple juice or apple cider
6 cups of sugar
Salt
1 tablespoon of cinnamon
1 teaspoon of ground cloves
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How to Can Apple Butter
Cut the apples into quarters, without peeling or coring them, and cut out damaged parts.
Put them into a large pot, juice, or cider, cover, bring to a boil, reduce heat to simmer, and cook until apples are soft, about 20 minutes. Remove from heat.
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Ladle apple mixture into a food mill process into a large bowl below. This is a basic applesauce recipe. Measure out 24 cups of apple puree
Add 6 cups of granulated sugar and cinnamon, and ground cloves. Stir until the sugar is dissolved, then bring the mixture to a boil over medium-high heat, stirring frequently. Reduced the heat and boiled gently, stirring frequently until the mixture thickens and holds its shape. Process in a water bath. Boil for 20 minutes.
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Canning Apple Butter
Lover of Apple Butter? Me too! Here is my favorite recipe and tips on Canning Apple Butter to make your experience the best!
Ingredients
- 12 pounds of apples
- 4 cups of apple juice or apple cider
- 6 cups of sugar
- Salt
- 1 tablespoon of cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon of ground cloves
Instructions
- Cut the apples into quarters, without peeling or coring them, cut out damaged parts.
- Put them into large pot , juice or cider, cover, bring to a boil, reduce heat to simmer, cook until apples are soft, about 20 minutes. Remove from heat.
- Ladle apple mixture into a foodmill process into a large bowl below. This is a basic applesauce recipe.
- Measure out 24 cups of apple puree
- Add 6 cups of granulated sugar and cinnamon, and ground cloves.
- Stir until the sugar dissolved, then bring the mixture to a boil over medium-high heat, stirring frequently. Reduced the heat and boiled gently, stirring frequently until the mixture thickens and holds its shape.
- Process in a water bath. Boil for 20 minutes.
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Nutrition Information
Serving Size
1 gramsAmount Per Serving Unsaturated Fat 0g
The end result was delicious apple butter that I canned and am now using in all sorts of recipes. If you have an abundance of apples, give this recipe a try – it’s definitely worth it! Have you ever made your own apple butter? How did yours turn out?
YUM! Will have to try this!
Thank you for this recipe! All the others I’ve seen call for 10 hrs in a crockpot or cooking stovetop then 3 hrs in the oven. I don’t have all day to can! I also don’t have an immersion blender (also a requirement of every recipe Ives even so far) but I have a fantastic new food mill! Your recipe was a real blessing for me this St Paddy’s Day eve. I have one quick question for you; how many pints does this yield?
Thanks again!
Cheri
It varies on the size of apples but I would get about 6 or 7 myself normally.
Do you use a certain type of apple for this? A more tart apple(granny smith) than a sweet apple( gala) for example?
I use what ever i have, last batch i used mixture of granny smith and Honeycrisp.
Was wondering the amounts of cinnamon and cloves???
These can be altered to taste but i use 1 tablespoon of each and add it into the apple puree.
What is the shelf life after canning?
Recommended up to a year 🙂
How long is the boiling process at the end? How long does it take to hold its shape?
The boiling process time varies every time, it depends on how much juice is in your apples and what kind of apples you use, it can take 20-30 minutes on the long end of it.
I don’t know to much about canning, so Does this have to be refrigerated after it is processed? How long is it good in the pantry for? Thank you :)!
They do not need to be refrigerated after canning and are good on the shelf for about a year. After your open the jar and break the seal you did need to refrigerate them and it will last in the fridge for 2-4 weeks depending on your fridge.
How do you store your apple butter? If you can store it in the pantry, how long will it keep? thanks
After it’s canned I store it in my pantry for up to a year 🙂
so you keep the seeds & stem part of the apple in the mixture? Also, after you can, how long is the shelf life? When you open it, how long does it last in the fridge too? Sorry I’m very new to canning.
I use a miller and that stains out the seeds and stem and any unusable part of the core. They say about a year on the shelf but if canned right has been known to last longer and it never lasts more then a week in my house in the fridge 🙂
I do not have a good mill. If I cut out the cores and bad parts of the apple and then use an immersion blender, would that work appropriately?
Yes, I have done it by hand many times.
After cooking, do you drain the juice to do the food mill or blender?