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I can’t resist warm homemade bread when it’s topped with melting butter and homemade apple butter.
So now you know, Dear Reader. Want to hear my secrets? Tempt me with some warm homemade bread with butter and homemade apple butter. I’ll tell you everything I know.
Now that we’ve perfected the whole wheat bread recipe, we’ve been making it a couple of times a week.
A loaf of bread used to sit around here for a month, but that was when we bought the cardboard-like diet bread. Homemade whole wheat bread doesn’t last a whole week around here; all three of us love it -
When it’s topped with butter and apple butter.
I know you’re dying for my apple butter recipe, and it’s quite complicated, {cough, cough} but I’ll share it with you. Contrary to what the name implies, there is no actual butter in it. It’s even sorta healthy.
One more thing. You can make pear butter, cherry butter, peach butter, and just about any other kind of butter you can think of with this same recipe. You can substitute whatever fruit you want for the apples and adjust the seasonings to taste. It will be just as delicious as the original apple butter.
- A quarter bushel of apples (same as half of a peck or about ten pounds of apples). I prefer to use a variety of apples if I can, and I like them to be sweeter cooking apples. I buy my apples at a local farm, and I suggest you do the same. If you’re in a pinch, you could make apple butter with supermarket apples or even jarred applesauce, but you will lose some quality in the finished product.
- Water or apple juice
- 1 cup of sugar
- 1 cup of Splenda (depending on what kind of Splenda you use, you might need a different amount. You need it to equal 1 cups of sugar. If you prefer not to use artificial sweeteners, use a second cup of sugar.)
- ½ to 1 tablespoon of ground cinnamon
- Wash the apples.
- Quarter and core the apples, but don’t peel them. Toss them, peels and all, into the biggest pot you have. I use an 8 or 10 quart stockpot.
- Pour an inch or two of water or apple juice in the pot, and cook the apples. I have stainless steel pots, so I cook them for a half hour or so on high. Depending on your cookware, you may have to cook the apples at a lower temperature. It will take a bit longer, but is otherwise not a big deal.
- Take the cooked apples out of the pan and run them through a vegetable grinder/strainer, food mill or sieve. It will turn into applesauce.
- Put the applesauce back into the pan. Add the sugar, Splenda, and cinnamon to taste.
- Cook the applesauce on low, stirring often (though not continuously). It will take another half hour or longer until it is a rich brown and a nice, thick consistency. Be careful that it doesn’t burn; that will ruin the whole batch.
- If your apple butter gets too thick, you can either put it in the blender or thin it with a wee bit of water or apple juice.
- If you can it in sterile jars, the apple butter will last almost forever. In the freezer, you can keep apple butter for six months to a year. In the refrigerator, it will stay good for about a month. If it lasts that long.
You can also make apple butter in the crockpot, but I prefer to use the stove top. When you make it in the crockpot, it takes a day or two of cooking, and that ridiculous pace bugs me.
I love apple butter on bread, toast, and pancakes. What do you eat it on?
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This is such a DUH moment for me- why didn’t I think to freeze apple butter?! Thanks for the idea and your recipe!
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This is such a DUH moment for me- why didn’t I think to freeze apple butter?! Thanks for the idea and your recipe!
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Sounds wonderful … now I just have to find an apple orchard.
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Sounds wonderful … now I just have to find an apple orchard.
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Oh, yum! I love apple butter.
Definitely need to try this one. Thanks for sharing!
Have a great Tuesday!
Sherry
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Mmm…I might have to give this a try. My last attempt at homemade apple butter did not turn out so well!
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Mmm…I might have to give this a try. My last attempt at homemade apple butter did not turn out so well!
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I made apple butter in my crockpot once. It went well.
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Making it in the crockpot is certainly easier. You don’t have to stir, and it’s much less likely to burn. I just don’t have the patience to wait for it that way.
Making it in the crockpot is certainly easier. You don’t have to stir, and it’s much less likely to burn. I just don’t have the patience to wait for it that way.
Oh, yum! I love apple butter.
Definitely need to try this one. Thanks for sharing!
Have a great Tuesday!
Sherry
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I love apple butter, too. My granny used to make it …
I’ve never tried to do it myself though …If I did, I would do it in the crockpot because I’m sure I’d burn it on the stove!
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I love apple butter, too. My granny used to make it …
I’ve never tried to do it myself though …If I did, I would do it in the crockpot because I’m sure I’d burn it on the stove!
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I made apple butter in my crockpot once. It went well.
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I love apple butter and have several jars in the cupboard that a friend gave me. Does it have the same consistency when you make it with splenda?
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I once bought a bushel of apples at the farmer’s market with the intention of making apple butter for my co-worker’s Christmas presents. I spent my fall break cutting up, cooking and canning 20-some jars of apple butter. It turned out really well except for the fact that I forgot to add sugar!
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I once bought a bushel of apples at the farmer’s market with the intention of making apple butter for my co-worker’s Christmas presents. I spent my fall break cutting up, cooking and canning 20-some jars of apple butter. It turned out really well except for the fact that I forgot to add sugar!
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I love apple butter and have several jars in the cupboard that a friend gave me. Does it have the same consistency when you make it with splenda?
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Apple butter is one of my favorites too! I made some for the first time last Fall.
~Liz
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Apple butter is one of my favorites too! I made some for the first time last Fall.
~Liz
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Homemade bread and homemade apple butter…what could be better…thanks for the recipe!
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Thanks for the receipes & tips! Do you share your bread receipe? My e-mail add is:
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Thanks!
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I make apple butter for Christmas presents, but I also make Apple Stack Cake. 9-layers of apple-y goodness, and I cook dried apples and make it into an apple butter type consistency just for cake.
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