Apple Butter

Name: Apple Butter
Total time: 2 h
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: Apples, any kind (windfalls will do, crabs and especially Siberian crabs are, if anything, superior to orchard apples); Apples, any kind (windfalls will do, crabs and especially Siberian crabs are, if anything, superior to orchard apples); sugar ¾ lb. to 1 pint of sieved apple pulp; Apples, any kind (windfalls will do, crabs and especially Siberian crabs are, if anything, superior to orchard apples); Apples, any kind (windfalls will do, crabs and especially Siberian crabs are, if anything, superior to orchard apples); lemon juice and grated peel to flavour.; sugar ¾ lb. to 1 pint of sieved apple pulp

A Somersetshire Recipe

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
2 hr

Appears in

Good Things in England

By Florence White

Published 1932

About

Ingredients

Apples, any kind (windfalls will do, crabs and especially Siberian crabs are, if anything, superior to orchard apples)
sugar ¾ lb.

Europe
United Kingdom
Dessert
Preserve
Vegan
Gluten-free

Method

Wash and dry the fruit quickly.
Do not pare the apples.
Cut them in quarters.
Cut away any unsound bits and if necessary the core, but not if it is quite good.
Put into a preserving pan, cover with cold water.
Stew to a pulp.
Press through a hair sieve.
Throw away what won’t go through