Apple Butter Recipe

Hi Everyone, I hope you are all well, I haven't been on this blog for almost a year and a lot has happened in my life.  I am now unemployed and enjoying life each and every day.  I will be posting recipes, crafts (with instructions) DIY projects and cost cutting tips. 

My Husband went in the hospital for a elective surgery, he had a hernia and was getting it repaired, well it turns out that he had "Three".  Well then he developed a bowel blockage and have a 2nd surgery.  Then he got an infection caused by the bowel blockage and had to have 5 more surgeries, first to clean out infected areas and put in a wound vac, then to clean and irrigate and replace the wound vac, and do this again, then on his sixth surgery his doctor replace a biological mess and place a much smaller wound Vac in and then finally closed him up on the seventh surgery.  He came home after being in the hospital for 23 days and then a week later had to return to the hospital with pneumonia and was in there for 3 more days, poor thing.  He has now been home for about 6 weeks and is doing well, he has a nerve problem in his leg that we are going to his primary doctor for.  I'm not sure when he will be able to return to work but I'm so glad he is at Home!!  It was really hard trying to can and freeze all of my garden stuff.

I was able to freeze corn, both cut off  and on the cob, green beans, tomato juice, dice tomatoes, zucchini, 10 quarts of apples and my blackberries done very well and I got 3 gals of them and made 2 blackberry cobblers and froze one gallon to make jelly.  I canned 36 pints of salsa, 6 pints of green tomato salsa, 6 quarts and 12 pints of bread and butter pickles, 4 quarts and 6 pints of Kosher dill pickles, and last but not least 10 pints of apple butter.  I decided I would post the recipe for the apple butter and it's made in a crock pot.

CROCK POT APPLE BUTTER

8 Cups of homemade applesauce
6 Cups of sugar
6 tablespoons of cinnamon
1 1/2 teaspoons cloves (ground)
1 teaspoon of all spice
1 tablespoon of lemon juice

Put all the ingredients in the crock pot and cover
cook on high about 6 hours, cook an additional 4-6 hours on low (cook until turns brown and thickens)

Spoon apple butter in to clean jars and put in a hot water bath.

For 1/2 Pints - 5 minutes
       Pints - 10 minutes
       Quarts - 15 minutes

I have tested this on my worst critics, aka, family and friends, and they have all loved it!!


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