Crabapple pickles

6 Pints

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
7 pounds Crabapples
7 cups Beet or cane sugar
3 cups Vinegar
2 cups ;Water
½ cup Broken stick cinnamon
¼ cup Whole cloves

Directions

Steam hard crab apples a short time before dropping into the syrup.

Combine all other ingredients to make a syrup. Tie spices in a little cheesecloth bag and cook in the syrup for 5 minutes. Remove apples to clean jars and add another layer, continuing until all apples are cooked. Fill jars with syrup and seal.

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