Apple Butter

Apple butter has a wonderful texture — thick, jammy smooth and super spreadable. It’s so scrumptious, you’ll want to eat it with a spoon, but it tastes marvelous on food. Apple butter pairs beautifully with salty sweet cream butter. Think toast, waffles, and our personal favorite, hot buttermilk biscuits. It’s so handy in baking because you can layer it into cakes, sweet rolls and bars — yes, apple butter bars are a thing! And we use it for savory dishes, too: cheese plates, mashed sweet potatoes and braised pork.

Recipe - GLEN LAKE

Apple Butter

Prep Time20 Minutes

Cook Time90 Minutes

Ingredients

5 pounds apples, peeled, cored, seeded and chopped

½ cup apple cider

¼ cup apple cider vinegar

¾ cup brown sugar, packed

2 tablespoons honey

2 teaspoons ground cinnamon

⅛ teaspoon ground cloves

¼ teaspoon Kosher salt

2 tablespoons lemon juice, to finish

Special equipment: 1-quart jar

Directions

In a medium heavy-bottomed pot, combine the apples, apple cider, apple cider vinegar, brown sugar, honey, cinnamon and clove and cook on low heat until apples are very soft, about 45 minutes.
Remove the apple mixture from the heat and using a stand blender or an immersion blender, purée it until it’s smooth.
Transfer the mixture back to pot if you are using a stand blender and cook it over medium-low heat until it turns a dark amber color and the texture is smooth, about 1 hour.
Season the apple butter with salt, stir in the lemon juice and remove it from the heat.
Allow the apple butter to cool and transfer it to the jar. Apple butter will keep for up to 6 weeks refrigerated

20 minutes

Prep Time

90 minutes

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5 pounds apples, peeled, cored, seeded and chopped

Honeycrisp Apples Bagged, 3 Pound

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½ cup apple cider

Martinelli's Gold Medal 100% Pure Apple Cider, 1 Litre

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¼ cup apple cider vinegar

Wild Harvest Organic Apple Cider Vinegar, 16 Ounce

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¾ cup brown sugar, packed

Our Family Light Brown Sugar, 2 Pound

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2 tablespoons honey

L&B Pure Honey, 16 Ounce

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2 teaspoons ground cinnamon

L&B Ground Korintje Cinnamon, 2.4 Ounce

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⅛ teaspoon ground cloves

McCormick Ground Cloves, 0.9 Ounce

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¼ teaspoon Kosher salt

Morton Coarse Kosher Salt, 3 Pound

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2 tablespoons lemon juice, to finish

Fancy Large Lemons, 0.5 Pound

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Special equipment: 1-quart jar

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Directions

In a medium heavy-bottomed pot, combine the apples, apple cider, apple cider vinegar, brown sugar, honey, cinnamon and clove and cook on low heat until apples are very soft, about 45 minutes.
Remove the apple mixture from the heat and using a stand blender or an immersion blender, purée it until it’s smooth.
Transfer the mixture back to pot if you are using a stand blender and cook it over medium-low heat until it turns a dark amber color and the texture is smooth, about 1 hour.
Season the apple butter with salt, stir in the lemon juice and remove it from the heat.
Allow the apple butter to cool and transfer it to the jar. Apple butter will keep for up to 6 weeks refrigerated