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okay well I've had a number of people ask me if I was ever going to make apple butter and I have
never made apple butter but uh I thought that it would be worth a try and I looked up recipes and
oh my goodness there is such a range of recipes some that take 12 hours another one's less than
one or two or two hours so I'm going to go with the short one because I don't have 12 hours to
make apple butter and hopefully this will work now there are also recipes that call for using
the peel in the apple butter and others that say remove the peel and I'm going to remove the peel
and the core because I want to add that to my vinegar and
as far as the vinegar is concerned I've had a number of people suggest to me that and I
have had vinegar that succeeded in the past and I've had vinegar that failed in the past
but it's been a while since I made it so a couple of people suggested number one that I add sugar
which yeah stands to reason adding sugar is probably a very good idea so I did add some to my
vinegar and the other thing is that somebody else that suggested that no I'm not really fermenting
this that vinegar needs air so yes I should leave allow it to have air and stir it a few times a day
and as I said I have succeeded making vinegar in the past so I'm going to try this root I've taken
out the thing that holds down the apples I've added sugar and I'm going to add more Peels and
coarse to this and probably a bit more water and have it continue its process for now I'm going
to focus on peeling and Coring and slicing some of these apples got my handy dandy peeler core
that everyone seems to like and yes I love it I don't think I'd want to do this job by hand
any little tool that helps make life easier is always a good tool to have on hand
and yes it does perhaps take a bit of a adjustment to learn how to use these
and I don't know why this guy's sliding these days but okay once you've adjusted to using it
it's actually pretty easy and I'm just going to drop the whole thing in right now and put the
um Peels and stuff and a jar that I have already so I'm just going to keep adding to it
okay I probably should cut those just so that they don't turn brown in the middle
although I think that turning brown is part of the process so I guess I really shouldn't be too
concerned about that okay next step now this recipe calls for nine medium-sized apples so
I'm going with about eight of them because some of these are large some are medium so
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the other thing this particular recipe calls for so apple cider and they specifically State apple
cider and not apple cider vinegar and I don't have any apple cider so I will be substituting water
there is also other recipes that do not require apple cider so
um I don't really see too much of an issue with that but
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okay definitely going to add more sugar to my enough scraps here
and more water because they need more water now
okay that should do it you need enough to cover the
apples okay and I'm going to stir this up somewhat
okay and put it aside and
stir it later on in the day okay recipe calls for two teaspoons of ground cinnamon
now that's half a teaspoon that's a teaspoon so heavy on the cinnamon I guess
okay so two two teaspoons of cinnamon one is three quarter cup of brown sugar they say light brown
sugar mine is probably not light but that's fine um one quarter teaspoon of ground cloves
or separate these one quarter teaspoon ground cloves okay done one quarter teaspoon of kosher
salt well I'll do the best I can with my kosher salt I'm going to use sea salt
I suppose I could use pink Himalayan salt but I'm just going to go with the
sea salt and they did say a quarter teaspoon so
and that one's got cloves on it now so I'm just gonna use that one like
and half a juice of lemon which you add later and I've had other recipes that call for vanilla and I
think I like the idea of vanilla but I'll add that later as well so so um put all this out of the way
and yes there are so many recipes and they're all different so we add all of this to the
apples and I'm going to put the apples in a pot strain the water out and then I'm going to put
um one cup of water as opposed to apple cider now my apples are tart anyway so I think I can get
away with that one quite easily all right so I'll get them in the pot okay so my one cup of water
and these apples are very juicy anyway so that might even be too much and all my spices and sugar
okay it says to cook over medium heat low
medium low heat uncovered stirring occasionally until the apples have become very soft about an
hour so I don't know these are pretty fresh apples we'll see how long it takes but anyway you do want
to mix all that in soon as you can and I've got it at high heat so medium low all right I think
the idea with this is to cook it very slowly okay so it's been about an hour and everything is soft
and I've been stirring occasionally and I guess at this time I could puree this and
um then then keep cooking it for a little while but I think I'm just going to leave
it for the timing and just let it cook down a bit more without pureeing for the time being
okay but I will take out my hand blender and get that ready to go in probably in about half an
hour or so but I think I'm just going to leave it to cook down slowly on its own and I'll be
stirring it quite often because it is thick and you want to be very cautious with it when it's
this thick so looking good and yes I could puree it at this point but it seems to be breaking up
on its own just left alone now I did say that there are recipes that I want you to cook this
for 12 hours and I suspect you really don't need to puree it if you're going to cook it that long
and this one was probably one of the shortest ones so I'm modifying that and just cooking
and cooking slowly doesn't matter okay my Apple app water is coming along rather smoothly on its
own without being pureed and I'm just going to allow it to cook down on its own although I may
just give it another half hour and then puree it because it almost looks like it is almost ready
certainly is getting thick I'm not sure how thick to uh make it
okay I would say that my apple butter is
done extremely thick so I'm going to add about a tablespoon of lemon juice
and probably the same amount of vanilla
okay and then I'm gonna stir this up and put it in the jars can it up
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wow that is an interesting flavor actually let's get fresh and that one had too much lemon on it
definitely an interesting flavor okay it's all done now now we'll just count it
okay so perhaps I can use this to D bubble
okay done so all I have to do now is clean the edges with vinegar put a lid
in the ring on and then water bath can these so that was my first attempt at
um apple butter and it certainly is an interesting project takes forever
it tastes yummy though okay so I've got my Lids I've got some got some vinegar here
which I'm going to clean the edges off I've also got my water on the stove to
to water bath can leaves and so I'm going to clean these off right now with vinegar
and lids and rings on them and put them away
oh well I don't know where my magnet is so
I'm just gonna have to be cautious not to touch the edges of these one there two
three
four and five and vinegar goes in the canner
forget that and then the jars are cloudy and I really don't like the way they look
okay and now for some rings
and these are still very hot from having cooked them
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making apple butter and I believe it was a success yeah we're now we're going to water bath can these
for oh probably 10 minutes is all I need but I may do it a bit longer or I'll check and see exactly
how much time I need it's pretty thick the uh I don't know how thick the apple butter is supposed
to be but this stuff is extremely thick so I may want to give it a little more than 10 minutes but
it is hot to begin with so I'm not too terribly concerned about it okay I've double checked and
for Half Pints which is what I have here plus a quarter pint but I have to go by the half pint
measurements it is uh 10 minutes a water bath can and 15 minutes for pints I'm going to leave it
just a little bit longer than that anyway and okay this is my first attempt at making apple butter
and this is Tony from her Homestead skills
hope you enjoyed this video and we'll catch you on the next one bye for now