Recipe Apple Butter

[Barriehie]

I always make a batch of apple butter this time of year. I make it in the IP, Instant Pot. Quantities aren't absolute but you knew that!

Ingredients

• 4 gala apples, or whatever type you like
• 1/4 tsp cinnamon
• 1/4 tsp allspice
• 1/4 tsp ground cloves
• 1/2 cup water
• 1 cup brown sugar

Method
Remove the stems and cut into quarters. Remove any seeds you can easily get and cut about a 1/4" of the flower end.

Put the quarters in the IP and add the water then high pressure cook for 10 minutes and let naturally release. Now add everything else and mix it up well.

Set the IP to slow cook on high for 2 hours and then slow cook on low for 10 hours. Stir it up when it's done and jar when cool.

3 cups

or 700 ml

 

[badjak]

How did that get called apple butter?
Properly threw me sideways
I would have called it apple compote or spiced up appelmoes

 

[Morning Glory]

This is similar: Recipe - Black Butter

 

[Morning Glory]

How did that get called apple butter?

Mainly because it can be used to spread on bread, I believe. But it can be used in many ways.

 

[badjak]

It's just wrong footed me.

 

[Barriehie]

It's just wrong footed me.

Yes, it got SatNavSaysStraightOn when she was gifted a jar many moons ago too.

 

[SoCalZone10]

Mine has just apple and sugar. I have a Golden Dorsett tree, I get about 100 fruit some year, not always, and that’s what I make. I can add any spice later on, so I keep mine a bit neutral.