Homemade Crockpot Apple Butter
6 lbs apples (we used gala), diced with peel on
2 1/2 cups white sugar
2 1/2 cups brown sugar
1 tablespoon cinnamon
2 1/2 cups apple cider
1/2 cup apple cider vinegar
Directions
First wash, and stem your apples, what I did was just cut the apples around the core, but anyway you choose is fine. Leave the peel on. Add your apple pieces to the crockpot and set to low setting. Then add 2 cups of the white sugar and 1 1/2 cups brown. Then add the cinnamon, apple cider and apple cider vinegar. Give good stir put lid on and leave alone 6-8 hours (I did this over night and left it alone for almost nine hours), give it a good stir every hour for three more hours. Then with by hand blender or one you have on hand blend away until smooth like apple sauce. What I did here was use my little pull in dicer and did it in portions, putting the blended stuff separate in a different bowl. Once all apples are well blended remove half of the liquid content from crockpot ( makes a great fluid replacement for a cake) add rest of sugar and the puréed apples back to crock pot. Leave the lid off and keep simmering for about six hours. Giving it a good stir every now and then.
I canned my contents, doing canning for the first time. I suggest you try canning. But as I am learning. Please do not hold my method to heart.
What I did was boil sterilized four pint sized canning jars and lids. Then I pulled each jar separately from boiling water. Filled with apple butter, popped All noticeable bubbles along edge of glass. Wiped the rim free of and droppings placed lid on finger tight and resumbmerged. Let all four jars boil for about fifteen minutes the let water cool then removed jars from water and set on counter to wait for the Ping sound to say sealed. Only two jars pinged. So the two that did not were placed in fridge and will be used up quickly.
Do not follow my method for canning. Please don't!!!!
