Slow Cooker Apple Butter

[NancyRogers]

Slow Cooker Apple Butter

7 cups applesauce**
2 cups apple cider
1-1/2 cups honey
1 tsp ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp ground cloves
1/2 tsp allspice
** preferably homemade, but a good-quality commercial kind, unsweetened, can be substituted
In a crock, mix all ingredients. Cover and cook on LOW for 14-15 hours or until mixture is a deep brown. Pack while hot into 4 hot pint jars. Process in a hot water bath for 10 minutes, counting the time after the jars have been immersed and the water comes again to a rolling boil. This is a simple version but it tastes just like the old-fashioned kind, baked down in a copper kettle over an open fire. Sweetened with honey, it has a smooth, smooth texture.
Makes 4 pints.
Source: Cooking from Quilt Country by Marcia Adams
posted by Rose-Marie

[NancyRogers]

This is for Sondra who wanted the crockpot apple butter recipe. I have made several batches with apples from the trees in my daughter's yard. This is an easy and delicious recipe.

Crockpot Apple Butter (7-quart size crockpot)

Peel, core, and chop enough apples to fill a 7 quart crockpot
Add 4 cups sugar
2 or 3 teaspoons cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon ground cloves

Stir until all is mixed. Place lid on crockpot and cook on low for about 10 hours. After the apples have cooked a few hours use a potato masher 2 or 3 times to mash the apples to a pulp. This recipe makes 6 pint jars of apple butter.

Claudia