Here’s a no-fuss recipe for delicious apple butter, which you can partly make overnight while you sleep. It’s hard to beat good, old-fashioned slow-cooker apple butter.
Slow-Cooker Apple Butter
A no-fuss recipe for delicious apple butter,
Equipment
- Slow cooker
Ingredients
- ½ cup water
- 2-3 cups sugar
- ½ cup cider vinegar
- ½ tsp ground cloves
- 2 tsp cinnamon
- ½ tsp allspice
Instructions
- Fill a 4 to 5 quater slow cooker with pared, cored, sliced apples.
- Add water.
- Cook on low until the apples are tender.
- If you wish, you can put this on at bedtime and let it cook all night.
- Next morning, pour off all liquid.
- Puree cook apples in a blender.
- Return to slow cooker.
- Add sugar, spices and vinegar.
- Cook for 3 hours or until it spreads consistently.
- Makes 2 to 3 pints.
My grandmother made the stewed potatoes all the time during my childhood…we are from the deep south..good ole Georgia
the recipe doesn’t say how many apples or pounds of apples or slices. Help?
4 to 5 quarts, depends on the size of your slow cooker. There are 4 cups in a quarter. So 16 cups in 4 quarts. 20 cups in 5 quarts. I hope this helps!
4 to 5 quarts, depends on the size of your slow cooker. There are 4 cups in a quart. So 16 cups in 4 quarts. 20 cups in 5 quarts. I hope this helps!