Oven-Roasted Apple Butter
- 1 cup cider vinegar
- 4 lb. apples, stems removed and quartered
- 2 cups light or dark brown sugar
- 1 1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp. ground allspice
- 1/2 tsp. ground ginger
- 1/4 tsp. ground cloves
- Place apples and vinegar in large stainless steel pot with 2 cups water.
- Cover, and bring to a boil.
- Reduce heat to medium, and cook 45 minutes to 1 hour, or until apples have applesauce-like consistency.
- Run mixture through food mill or press through sieve to separate pulp from skin and seeds; discard skin and seeds.
- Transfer pulp (you should have about 5 cups) to large ovenproof dish or Dutch oven.
- Preheat oven to 350F.
- Stir remaining ingredients into apple pulp.
- Bake 2 to 2 1/2 hours, or until apple butter thickens to a spreadable consistency, stirring every 15 minutes.
- Meanwhile, sterilize jars and lids: Submerge jars in large pot filled halfway with simmering water, and lids in small pot of simmering water.
- Keep jars and lids in hot water until ready to use.
- Remove jars one at a time from hot water, and fill with jam, leaving 1/4-inch headspace.
- Seal with lids.
- Place canning rack or cake rack in bottom of large pot, and return sealed jars to pot, adding extra water to cover jars by 1 inch, if necessary.
- Bring to a boil, and boil 10 minutes.
- Remove jars from water, and cool.
cider vinegar, apples, light, ground cinnamon, ground allspice, ground ginger, ground cloves
Taken from www.vegetariantimes.com/recipe/oven-roasted-apple-butter/ (may not work)