Apple Butter In The Roaster!
Sep 3rd, 2008 by Sylvia
A few days ago, I had a table full of apples that needed to have some thing done with them. The children got busy and used the peeler/parer/corer and then I had tons of peeled and cored apples ready to go. I dried some that amounted to about three quarts. Then I made apple butter over night in the Nesco roaster with the rest.
Don’t they look just soooo happy? A half bushel of apples makes us tired.
I put the apples in the roaster with just a touch of water and let them cook a while. Then I came back and added sugar, cinnamon, allspice and cloves to taste. Actually, I kept adding spices and sugar til it was right all through the cooking process. I don’t measure very often because apples can be very different in their sugar content. And a very mild tasting apple is easy to overwhelm with too much spice.
The apples cooked all afternoon and all through the night on very low heat. The next morning I ran the immersion blender through the apples and the end product was rich, dark, brown and sweet! Yummy! I packed it into jars and freezer containers. I ate some on my toast this morning, it is sooooo yummy.
I took the apples that I had in the dehydrator yesterday and packed them into ziplock bags this morning. I will store those in the freezer.
Very neat, Sylvia! If I find some tart apples today at the Farmer’s Market, I may make some of this! My hurdle is that I don’t enjoy peeling the apples. No wonder your crew looks tired. We would look like that, too! But the end result is worth all that effort, right! Your method sounds so easy, so I just may do it. Love, Wardeh