Baked apple butter

1 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
12 pounds Jonathon apples; or another tart red variety
3 quarts Water or apple juice approximately; (just cover apples)
1 cup Brown sugar or honey
2 Oranges; juiced
2 tablespoons Cinnamon
2 Lemons; juiced
½ teaspoon Salt

Directions

Heat oven to 350F. Peel, core and cut apples into quarters. Place in large baking pan or oven kettle. Cover apples with water, apple juice or any combination of the two. Cover and bake for about 1½ hours. Uncover, add cinnamon, brown sugar and salt and mash with a potato masher, then stir well. Cover and bake again for about 4 hours, stirring about every hour until mixture is reduced, brown and thick. This is all relative to your baking vessel. For my heavy copper kettle it takes all day. Prepare hot sterile jars. Stir in orange and lime juice and add more sugar if desired.

Put into jars and seal.

Recipe by Mangia!

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