I spent Monday getting the fixings ready for Apple butter. I made the apple sauce, then got the slow cooker ready. It needs to cook for 12 – 14 hours so I put it on at 7pm and let it go all night long. Which is great, except when I had to wake up and feed Apple. Oh the smell of apples and cinnamon. It was enough to make me want to go down and get a snack, but I didn’t.
Hubby and Opa put it on their ice cream. Apple and I put it in our yogurt. J and A don’t eat apple butter apparently, but that’s ok, more for us!
Here is the finished batch. Some smaller jars and a few larger ones. But, all in all delicious. Hubby was trying to tell some ladies at work about it and they couldn’t grasp that I made it without butter. I guess a lot of people actually use butter in their apple butter, but I have always used the non-butter recipe. It calls for apple sauce, apple cider, honey, cinnamon, all spice and cloves. That’s it!
And as if we aren’t eating apples every two minutes, I seriously had to stop J he was eating them like there was no tomorrow, Hubby wanted an Apple Crisp. My Mom has always called it an Apple Betty, not sure why, but whether you call it a Crisp or a Betty it sure was delicious. Again, J and A didn’t eat any but Hubby, Opa, Apple and I dove right in. I might see an Apple pie in the future….
**Thank you all for your kind words and support for the run. I am very excited and thrilled at the support I have received. I ran 3k full out tonight, so I hope to run earlier tomorrow when I haven’t just finished a huge meal that ended in Apple Betty, to see if I can make it to 4k.
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Traditionally, an apple crisp is made with oatmeal and an apple brown betty is made with bread. But I guess your mom can call apple crisp an apple betty if she wants to! 😉
Homemade apple butter sounds delicious. I don’t like applesauce but I do like apple butter, go figure. And I’ve never heard of putting butter in apple butter. I wouldn’t put butter in peanut butter, either.
Apple Butter sounds fabulous. How do you make it? Could you email me the recipe? Sounds like you have been keeping yourself busy! I don’t know how some of you women do it all! Go figure!
Y’all will enjoy that for a long time to come. I’ll bet it’s delicious!
Mmmm, I have never had apple butter but it sounds fabulous. Myself, I have been canning the gazzilion tomatoes my mom grew this year. It was a bumper crop, let me tell ya.
Yay for the run! I was thinking of signing up too when I saw you were doing it. I actually ran 5k for the first time in my life a couple of nights ago without any walking breaks. It was a shining moment for 🙂
HMMM Yummm, I have to get myself some fresh apples and stat! Yay for your run. I went out last night too. It was a great night for running, not too hot, not too cold!
Would love to have the recipe.
oooo, I LOOOOVE apple butter!!
We bought some at the apple orchards last year and it wasn’t the same as I remembered it. It probably was quite authentic, and I was used to the processed kind. ha.
Good for you!
ohk, just wondering is it mostly apples and a teensy bit of butter, or mostly butter with a teensy bit of apples?
and i feel giggly that you are eating apples, cos i think of *Apple* as a person whenever i read you!!!!!
STOP! don’t eat the baby!!!!!
mwah X