canning

[craigrice]

over labor day I canned 10 pints and 3 quarts of whole tomatoes as I wright this I am cooking apples down to make apple butter

[Jonathon]

craigrice I think we would all like more information on the apple butter? Londyn(social media) has a sister who makes all sorts of butters, the crazier ones are like macadamia butter (god, how much must that cost!?) and walnut or something but she just puts nuts through a food processor, sounds like you do more than that?

[craigrice]

Jonathon apple butter is A cooked down versoin of apple sauce that is seasoned and processed in a canner to put on your biscuit or toast at breakfast

[Chef]

Jonathon Basic recipe in the user’s recipe category. Excellence on biscuits, toast, good just out the jar.

[craigrice]

I use the recipe in the ball canning book for apple butter the sweet cider apple butter I have A kitchen-aid mixer with attachments that speeds up the process tin the peeling coring and slicing to speed up the first cooking about 6 lb. apples and 2-3 cups apple cider to cover and simmer till soft then process in a food mill then return to pot and add 3 cups sugar 1 1/2 tsp. cinnamon and 1/2 tsp. cloves and cook till it mounds on a spoon then pack hot in hot sterilized jars process 1/2 pints or pints in a canner after it comes to a rolling boil for 15 min. let stand and enjoy this winter ( let stand for a day or two to make sure they are sealed

[calldoctoday]

Jonathon We did Pear Butter a week ago or so, then canned pears. Pear butter is about the same as apple butter, same process fore certain. I cook mine down for a day or so in the crock pot at low to reduce & thicken it. Then process it. It usually has enough natural pectin in the pears or apples to help with the thickening once reduced, but you can add a little too if you want or need it.

[calldoctoday]

I use a little Ginger & Allspice too & a little Orange or Tangerine Juice. I let mine boil for about 20-25 minutes, depending on the jar size. I hope we are not over doing it.

[craigrice]

I put cinnamon and cloves & sugar in my apple butter

[Chef]

craigrice calldoctoday Look at the recipe in the user recipe section

[Drseibert]

I use my instant pot multi cooker just core, quarter, add my seasonig cook, natural release, immersion blender, using 3lbs. apples that you like

[craigrice]

Chef I use a variety of apples for flavor never herd of vinegar in apple butter

[calldoctoday]

craigrice it sounds like it is doing the same thing when I use a little lemon or orange juice. It adds acid the ramp the acidity level up a bit. With apples, I suppose you would use apple cider vinegar. I am not sure when heating it up though if it matters whether it is organic & with the mother or not, even though I like that. Usually when I am going to heat things up a bunch, I just use the clear apple cider vinegar. perhaps someone can enlighten me on that though.

[craigrice]

my first batch made 8 jars and I am going to do 1 more the grand kids know i made some so I better make more lol

[calldoctoday]

Had to pick the last batch of Poblano, Jalapoleno, Cayenne, Chili Arbol, & Cubanera this evening before the big freeze gets those that have survived. Smoking & drying up another batch tonight & the rest are going into the fermenter to make fermented hot sauce as we now have gallons of dried & smoked peppers. Ground several up & made a Smoked Poblano/Ancho, Jalopoleno blend or the year & a Cayenne, Chili Arbol Blend as well. Has anyone tried any particular blends that they have found to be really, really, good? Also juiced a solid five gallons of fresh Lemon Juice & processed & froze most of it, but we drank a bunch of it fresh here in the middle of Winter. Margaret has been feeling really bad for several days, but that lemon juice with honey & tea brought her right to life. If that did not work I was going to have to pull out some of my Mom’s old Cayenne pepper Tea or Homemade Quinine recipes.

[kyle]

calldoctoday sounds funny to us WI folks to hear before a big freeze at the end of January, we had that almost 4 months ago now.

[mrobisr]

calldoctoday we do a lot of pearbutter also, our best producing pear variety is Kiefer which isn’t good for fresh eating, they hard and grainy, but they make fantastic pearbutter.

[calldoctoday]

mrobisr That is very good. I have made it on occasion too & really like it.

[calldoctoday]

kyle I understand. It feels really weird. Even here we usually have something a bit earlier, but it is really running late this year. It seems like it has all been doing a lot of weird stuff & I would swear it used to get colder when we were at one particular location in Texas, even though we were a little further south there.