Ginger Spiced Cranberry-Apple Butter

Ingredients:

8 cups peeeled, diced (I used Jonagold) apples (about 10-12 medium apples)
12 oz fresh cranberries
1 large cinnamon stick
3/4 loving cup H2O or apple tree cider
1/4 teaspoon soil cardamom
1/4 teaspoon soil allspice
1/4 teaspoon soil nutmeg
1 loving cup nighttime chocolate-brown sugar
1 2-inch knob fresh ginger

Directions:

Place all ingredients inwards a large heavy-bottomed pot (I used a 5-quart cast-iron enameled braiser). Cover as well as choose to a boil. Reduce oestrus as well as simmer, stirring occasionally as well as uncovered, until the apples are real tender as well as falling apart.

Remove as well as discard the ginger as well as cinnamon stick. The ginger should hold upward slowly to uncovering because dissimilar the apples, it should all the same hold upward firm. Blend, using an immersion blender or inwards batches inwards a regular blender until real smooth, carefully every bit the apple tree mixture volition hold upward real hot as well as sticky. If the mixture is non at apple tree butter consistency, render to oestrus as well as simmer, stirring frequently, until it reaches the proper thickness.


When it is proper thickness, pour into clean, sterlized jars as well as cool completely as well as refrigerate upward to iii weeks or ladle when warm into prepared jars leaving 1/4 inch headspace as well as procedure inwards a hot H2O canner for 10 minutes.


Yield: most v 8-oz jars


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My thoughts:

I've made a few batches of apple tree butter over the years but exclusively inwards the ho-hum cooker, non the stove top. We similar to become to the Berkeley Springs Apple Butter Festival where they brand the apple butter inwards the town foursquare over a forest fire (although nosotros usually purchase it from the cheaper house around the corner that makes inwards over a forest burn inwards a parking lot-- non every bit picturesque but a buck's a buck as well as I figure they tin role the business) but nosotros didn't brand the trip this year. I almost didn't brand apple tree butter this yr either but Matt bought similar a bushel of apples in conclusion calendar month to accept a to an outcome as well as nosotros ended upward alongside a ton of apples leftover. They've been sitting inwards mutual frigidity storage (aka my enclosed, uninsulated porch) until today when I idea I'd finally brand something alongside them.

Since it is directly Dec as well as I am over the whole faking I am excited most autumn thing, I idea I'd brand a slightly to a greater extent than festive as well as seasonally appropriate apple tree butter past times adding a ton of spices as well as cranberries. This takes it correct into winter, right? I'm planning to give these out to friends as well as household unit of measurement correct directly as well as hence I didn't bother canning them but if you lot desire to give them out every bit gifts (and you lot should! exclusively fools wouldn't dearest a jounce of this sweet-tart spicy goodness) delight tin it to become far shelf-stable. Don't give the gift of botulisum this Christmas (or Hanukkah!). The cran-apple butter is only every bit creamy every bit the regular but alongside only a hint of tartness from the cranberries that actually takes it to the adjacent level.


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