Apple butter who cans there own??

old · Jul 19, 2010

Well I just canned 3 qts of the stuff . Sweet and tastes good for the apples I used which where not all that good. My mom has 4 apple trees that do ok but the apples are pretty poor but sure do seem to be good enough to make some sweet butter. So any body else do apple butter?

M-MAN · Jul 19, 2010

The better half usually makes a run a year, but if she end's up with a bunch of apples she makes more and gives it away at Christmass time. It's good stuff! Funny how the scrappy apples seem to make the best butter & are even better when you dry them & make fried apple pies.

Anonymous-0 · Jul 19, 2010

You're already getting apples?
Wife likes apple butter, maybe I'll talk her into making some. We have about 8 acres of fruit trees that we rent and can't give the fruit away usually.

Dave

PJH · Jul 20, 2010

We make apple butter every time we get a good crop. The trees are loaded this year, so I better get ready - I'm the picker and peeler.

We used to make it in a big copper kettle, but now we make it in one of those big white roasters that you see used to serve food at church dinners.

It's kinda trouble free - you peel and chop the apples, add some sugar (wife has a formula), sometimes some cloves, always some red hots (get them at the Kroger pharmacy) and let it cook in the roaster ALL DAY, maybe longer, stirring when convenient. To test it for doneness - put a spoonful on a plate. If any liquid runs out of the spoonful - it ain't done cooking.

When you turn a jar of apple butter, there shouldn't be any liquid showing. If there is, it wasn't cooked long enough.

Paul

larry@stinescorner · Jul 20, 2010

we make it too, in the crock pot ,just like PJH said. One year we made pear butter , some of our friends liked that even better.

MurrayE · Jul 20, 2010

Hi, You have me interested , please explain the correct procedure/recipe. Cheers, Murray

Nancy Howell · Jul 20, 2010

We have a couple of pear trees at the farm. How about the pear butter recipe?

Nancy Howell · Jul 20, 2010

My mom used to make fried apple rings. They sure were good. I need to get the recipe.

Errin OH · Jul 20, 2010

We do pear halfs and butter. I have to ask the wife on the recipe, my job is the canning process.....

Janicholson · Jul 20, 2010

I have a Dwarf MacIntosh tree Very nice Butter/pies etc. Jim

old · Jul 20, 2010

Wal-Mart sells a book called Ball blue book of preserving which is where I got the recipe for the apple butter and on the very next page is the pear butter one. Cost is at least here $5.96 and they also have one called even you can can or something like that for $9.96. I have had the first one now for about 5 years and use it a lot, want the other one but don't have the extra $$ at this time to buy it. LOL

Mike (WA) · Jul 20, 2010

I always preferred pear butter as a kid- the coarser grain of the pears makes the texture better. Apple was almost too smooth, kind of bordered on slimy, I thought.

But alas, no jam, no desserts at my house. Wife doesn't care for sweets, and my bathroom scale concurs with her, on my behalf. Drat.

DaveK(IN) · Jul 20, 2010

The Ball "Blue Book" that Old mentions below is the single best reference on canning there is. They have been revising it regularly for decades.

I have also tried cloves, nutmeg, honey and brown sugar to very things a bit and also to respond to the different tastes of different apples.

old · Jul 20, 2010

I'm thinking about making another batch of apple butter soon but go with nutmeg instead of the cinnamon because my mom can not eat it with the cinnamon in it so you now have told me it would work

old · Jul 20, 2010

That blue book I said something about also has a recipe for apple rings but they are canned. I have made fried apples before which would be probably about the same thing I just slice the apples and fry them in butter with a little bit of brown sugar added to them. Oh by the way I collect cook books and do 99% of the cooking in my house. My wife has learned to stay out of my way in the kitchen LOL

Mike (WA) · Jul 20, 2010

Wish I could help, but Mom's been gone for almost 30 years (where do the years go?), and I never got it from her.

However, I'll bet if you google "pear butter recipe" you'd get about a zillion of them.

Mike (WA) · Jul 20, 2010

My bad- only 245,000!

cuttman · Jul 20, 2010

OLD I'm with you I do most of the cooking and canning. throughly enjoy it.

PJH · Jul 20, 2010

Nancy - my wife uses the pear butter recipe from the Ball Blue Book, on page 31.

Our neighbor has a couple of oriental pear trees, and we make some real good pear butter from them. We have to reduce the sugar to three cups, instead of four, and her notes say to reduce it a little more, 'cause it's still a little too sweet. I like it at three cups, but she's the cook & I'm the grunt.

I will send you the recipe if you don't have a Ball Blue Book.

By the way, I think I like the pear butter better than the apple butter, but the variety is nice.

Paul

ILLEFTY · Jul 20, 2010

We make our's in September. Start out with 6 bushel of apples, 3golden delisious and 3 jonathan. Usualy end up with 50 to 60 QT's

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