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Apple Butter Without Cider

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United States

Known as an American recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 10 ingredients

  1. Cider
  2. Apples
  3. Allspice
  4. Cloves
  5. Apple butter
  6. a pound of mixed spice
  7. Nutmeg
  8. Water
  9. Cinnamon
  10. two gallons of the best molasses
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Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.
  • Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.

Method

  1. To fourteen gallons of water add two gallons of the best molasses, mixing them well together.
  2. Put it into a large kettle over a good fire ;
  3. let it come to a hard bcil, and skim it as long as any scum continues to rise.
  4. Then take out half the liquid, and put it into a tub.
  5. Have ready eight bushels of fine sound apples, pared, cored and quartered.
  6. Throw them gradually into the liquid that is still boiling on the fire.
  7. Let it continue to boil hard, and as it thickens, add by degrees the other half of the molasses and water, (that which has been put into the tub.) Stir it frequently to prevent its scorching, and to make it of equal consistence throughout.
  8. Boil it ten or twelve hours, continuing to stir it.
  9. At night take it out of the kettle, and set it in tubs to cool ;
  10. covering it carefully.
  11. Wash out the kettle and wipe it very dry.
  12. Next morning boil the apple butter six or eight hours longer ;
  13. it should boil eighteen hours altogether.
  14. Half an hour before you take it finally out, stir in a pound of mixed spice ;
  15. cloves, allspice, cinnamon, and nutmeg, all finely powdered.
  16. When entirely done, put up th3 apple butter in stone or earthen jars.
  17. It wall keep a 5^ear or more.
  18. It can, of course, be made in a smaller quantity than that given in the above receipt: and also at any time in the winter;
  19. fresh cider not being an ingredient, as in the most usual w^ay of making apple butter.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Chef's knife
  • Wooden spoon
  • Slotted spoon
  • Kettle