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Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 35 minutes
Course fall recipes
Cuisine American

Ingredients
  

  • 5 medium cooking apples, peeled, quartered, cored and sliced
  • 1 1/4 cups water (you could use substitute and use apple juice or apple cider.)
  • 1/2 cup brown sugar
  • 1/4 tsp cinnamon
  • 1 tsp pumpkin pie spice or apple pie spice.

Instructions
 

  • Prepare apples. Heat apples and water over medium heat. When the mixture starts to boil reduce heat and simmer for about ten minutes until tender.
  • Stir in brown sugar and cinnamon. Heat to boiling and stir until apples are soft. Use an immersion blender to puree the fruit or puree in a blender until completely smooth.
  • The apple butter is sufficiently cooked when the apple butter holds its shape on an inverted (upside-down) spoon.
    Cool apple butter and place in mason jar and store in the refrigerator.
  • Adapted from My100 Year Old Home.
Keyword apple butter, fall recipe, homemade apple butter