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Ingredients: twenty Stayman-Winesap apples (or other firm, sweetness apples) 10 cups water four cups sugar half dozen cinnamon sticks half dozen vanilla beans 12 whole star anise 12 dark peppercorns ii tablespoons whole cloves Directions: Prep half dozen quart jars. Evenly split upward the spices betwixt the jars. Peel, core in addition to slice the apples. Float them inward H2O mixed amongst Fruit Fresh or lemon juice, to help retain their color. Meanwhile, convey the sugar, in addition to H2O to a rolling boil. Add the apple tree slices. Boil for v minutes. Do non allow it reduce. Pour the hot syrup in addition to apples into the jars, leaving 1/2 inch headspace. Run a knife or a offend scraper to dislodge whatever bubbles spell turning the offend slightly. Seal. Process inward a hot H2O bathroom for twenty minutes. Tip: I highly recommend the Blue Book Guide to Preserving for learning how to can. Here are around of my favorite canning related items . Notes: I wo...

Ingredients: 12 "baby" apples for the caramel: i loving cup heavy cream 3 cups sugar 1/4 cup cane syrup 1/2 cup water 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, cutting into pieces two teaspoons vanilla scrapings from i vanilla bean pinch salt Directions: Line a baking canvass amongst parchment newspaper or a silipat. Set aside. In a small-scale sauce pan convey the cream, butter, 1/4 cup water, vanilla, vanilla edible bean scrapings and tabular array salt to a boil. Set aside. In a medium sized, heavy pan, rut the sugar, the remaining H2O in addition to cane syrup to a boil, stirring frequently, until the saccharide dissolves. Boil until it turns a lite golden color. Slowly, carefully, stir inwards the cream mixture. Stir until the caramel is 255 degrees (just beyond softball stage), most xv minutes. Remove from rut in addition to carefully dip the apples inwards the caramel. Place the apples on the silipat in addition to let to ...

Ingredients: i delicata squash, peeled together with cubed i large Stayman winesap apple, cubed i 3/4 loving cup pearl onions, peeled two cloves garlic, minced i tablespoon butter i tablespoon olive oil i tablespoon mustard seed seeds from the squash, washed well freshly solid soil dark pepper salt Directions: Heat the butter together with crude inwards a pan. Add the garlic together with onion together with saute until fragrant. Add the squelch together with apples together with saute until the squelch is virtually fork-tender. Add the squelch seeds together with mustard seeds. Saute until the squelch is fork tender. Season amongst tabular array salt together with pepper. My thoughts: It has been unseasonably warm hither lately together with I've been trying to pretend that is is non mid-November simply something to a greater extent than similar March, amongst warmer conditions some the corner. But, alas that is non truthful together with I convey to resign myself...

Ingredients: ii 3/4 lb boneless pork roast 3/4 lb Russet potatoes, peeled as well as cubed 1 lb rutabaga, peeled as well as cubed ii Stayman apples, sliced 1/2 lb pearl onions ii tablespoons apple tree cider vinegar 1/4 loving cup hot mustard* ii tablespoons hickory syrup 1/2 tablespoon prepared horseradish salt freshly soil dark pepper Directions: Preheat oven to 375. In pocket-size bowl, whisk together the mustard, syrup as well as horseradish until smooth. Rub into all sides of the pork. Place the pork inward a dutch oven as well as environs it on all sides amongst the vegetables as well as apples. Sprinkle amongst vinegar, tabular array salt as well as pepper. Cook for 1 1/2 hrs or until fully cooked. *I used Hot Mister Mustard My thoughts: While this mightiness hold upwards a flake of a homely meal, it is a tasty one! The mustard-hickory syrup** based rub actually sealed inward the juices as well as flavored the apples as well as vegetables every bit the ...

Ingredients: 9-10 Jonagold apples, sliced in addition to cored* 3/4 loving cup apple tree cider 2-3 tablespoons dark spiced rum i 1/2 tablespoon vanilla edible bean paste 3/4 loving cup night chocolate-brown sugar Directions: Place all ingredients inwards a 4 quart irksome cooker . The apples should come upwardly to the really exceed of the insert. Cook on depression for 10-12 hours. Vent past times placing the lid on askew in addition to laid upwardly on depression for an additional 10-12 hours or until most of the liquid has evaporated in addition to the mixture has reduced in addition to thickened. Pour the mixture into the nutrient processor or purpose an imersion blender to puree. Cool completely in addition to refrigerate upwardly to iii weeks or ladle when warm into prepared jars leaving 1/4 inch headspace in addition to procedure inwards a hot H2O canner for ten minutes. Yield: virtually v 8-oz jars + i 4-oz *A apple corer/slicer makes quick survive...

Ingredients: two 1/2 pounds baking apples*, peeled, cored, in addition to cutting into 1/4 inch slices 1/2 loving cup nighttime chocolate-brown sugar two tablespoons butter, cubed 1/2 teaspoon allspice 1/2 teaspoon Earth roasted ginger 1/3 loving cup dried sweetened cranberries double pie crust (I used cheddar-cranberry ) Directions: Preheat oven to 350. Mix all of the ingredients together. Pour into a pie plated lined amongst a pie crust. Top amongst a 2nd pie crust in addition to pinch shut. Pierce the hand crust amongst a knife or cutting out shapes to vent. I used a large leafage shaped cookie cutter to cutting out leaves in addition to used them to create the hand crust. Bake xxx minutes or until golden chocolate-brown in addition to bubbly. Cool thence while to serve. *I used Cortland apples My thoughts: This is mayhap an award-winning pie! I've been helping the Baltimore Orchard Project, a grouping that harvests fruit inward world parks in addition to so...

Ingredients: iv cups cubed cooked chicken pectus (I used chicken from my fauxtisserie chicken recipe ) 10 oz cooked gemelli pasta 3/4 loving cup chopped cherry-red onion ii stalks celery, diced 1 loving cup cubed apples (I used Jonagold) 1/4 loving cup dried sweetened cranberries zest of 1 lemon dressing: 1/3 loving cup mayonnaise three tablespoons apple tree cider 1 tablespoon unfiltered apple tree cider vinegar 1 1/2 tablespoons Dijon 1/4 teaspoon celery seed ocean salt freshly soil pepper Directions: In a large bowl, toss together the chicken, pasta, apple, cranberries, onion, celery as well as zest. Set aside. In a minor bowl, whisk together the dressing ingredients. Drizzle over the salad as well as stir to evenly distribute all ingredients. My thoughts: I similar making meal-like pasta salads because they are non alone an slowly dinner, they brand nifty leftovers for lunch. Even though I function from home, I usually don't bring fourth dimension to w...

Ingredients: 32 oz finely shredded sauerkraut 1 onion, halved too thinly sliced ii apples, peeled too sliced (I used Honeycrisp) 1/2 loving cup ruby vino vinegar 1 1/2 tablespoons yellowish mustard seed 1 tablespoon night brownish saccharide 1 1/2 tablespoon Brummel & Brown 1 bay leaf freshly Earth dark pepper Directions: Melt the Brummel & Brown inwards a pocket-size skillet. Saute the apples too onion until the onions are translucent. Whisk together the vinegar, saccharide too mustard seed inwards the bottom of a iv quart ho-hum cooker until the saccharide dissolves. Add the remaining ingredients. Stir to evenly distribute. Cook on depression 8 hours or iv hours on high. Serve hot. My thoughts: It isn't Thanksgiving inwards Baltimore unless in that place is sauerkraut! Thanks to an influx of High German immigrants good over 100 years agone too who added real High German sauerkraut to the real American vacation menu, everyone inwards Baltimore serves ...

Ingredients: 1 10-14 lb turkey two small-scale to medium apples, quartered 1 small-scale onion, quartered two teaspoons dried marjoram 1/4 loving cup olive oil two cloves garlic, grated 1 teaspoon caraway seeds Directions: Preheat oven to 400. Loosely materials the turkey amongst the onions in addition to apples. In a small-scale bowl, whisk together the marjoram, olive oil, garlic in addition to caraway seeds. Rub the mixture over the turkey. Roast the turkey for xxx minutes, in addition to then plough the oven downward to 325 until done, most two 1/2 hrs. Allow to sit down five minutes earlier carving. My thoughts: I came upwardly amongst this recipe to coordinate amongst my Polish-American stuffing . I used a lot of the flavors industrial plant life inwards Polish cooking especially the garlic inwards marjoram that is inwards my favorite sausage. I intend the apple tree keeps them turkey moist in addition to lightly flavors the meat from within. I d...

Ingredients: iii large cooked beets, cubed in addition to cooled 1 large, tart apple, cubed 1 pocket-size white onion, diced dressing: 1/3 loving cup sour cream 1/3 tablespoons mayonnaise 1-2 tablespoons grated horseradish common salt white pepper Directions: Place the beets, apple tree in addition to onion inwards a medium bowl. Whisk together the dressing ingredients. Drizzle over the beets. Stir to evenly distribute. Note: To salve fourth dimension boil or roast the beets the hateful solar daytime earlier in addition to refrigerate the beets overnight. My thoughts: I dearest beet salads. I know or in addition to then people are beet-phobic only I don't know why! Beets are sugariness only non overly so, they are adept for you lot in addition to they dye everything they deport upon pink. Win-win-win, inwards my book. I peculiarly similar beet salad in addition to it seems similar nigh every European cuisine I inquiry has or in addition to then version of a bee...

Ingredients: three tablespoons butter four eggs i 1/2 cups milk i 3/4 cups flour 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon pinch nutmeg pinch terra firma cardamom pinch salt i large apple, cored in addition to sliced into sparse rings (I used Stayman) 1/4 loving cup lite chocolate-brown sugar Directions: Place a 12-inch kind Fe skillet inward the middle of the oven. Preheat oven to 350. Add the butter to the skillet inward the oven in addition to allow it melt. Meanwhile, inward a medium bowl, whisk together eggs, milk, flour, common salt in addition to spices. Remove the skillet from the oven in addition to rapidly sprinkle amongst saccharide in addition to conform the apple tree slices inward a unmarried layer. Pour the batter over the apple tree in addition to supply to the oven. Bake for 20-30 minutes or until lightly browned. Invert on to a platter. Slice in addition to serve! My thoughts: We went to the apple tree butter festival this twelvemonth in addition to equally e'...

Ingredients: ii strips bacon, cooked together with crumbled eight oz halved kalettes, lightly steamed together with cooled three oz crumbled feta 1 large crisp apple tree (I used Gold Rush) cubed ii tablespoons aged apple tree cider vinegar 1 tablespoon olive oil salt freshly solid seat down dark pepper Directions: Toss together the bacon, kalettes, feta together with apple tree inwards a medium bowl. Drizzle alongside vinegar, fossil oil together with sprinkle alongside tabular array salt together with pepper. Toss to coat. My thoughts: My mom called me all excited close a novel vegetable she had read close inwards a periodical called kalettes. It is a cross betwixt kale together with Brussels sprouts. I'm a footling eh close kale but I similar Brussels sprouts together with then I wanted to laissez passer on it a try. I couldn't uncovering it anywhere together with then I lastly emailed the kalettes people via their website together with they said it is ...

Ingredients: 1/2 loving cup butter, cubed 1/3 loving cup honey* 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour 1 Honeycrisp apple 1/2 loving cup low-cal dark-brown sugar 1 large egg 1 teaspoon vanilla pinch salt Directions: Preheat oven to 350. Spray alongside baking spray or grease as well as flour an 8x8 inch pan. Set aside. In a pocket-size pan, melt together the beloved as well as apple. Meanwhile, grate the apple. Squeeze out excess juice. Measure to equal 1/2 loving cup grated apple. Place the apple, sugar, egg, flour, vanilla as well as common salt into the bowl of a stand upwards mixer or medium mixing bowl. Mix using the stand upwards mixer using a mitt mixer until the mixture is smooth. Slowly stream inward the melted butter as well as honey. Mix until a batter forms. Pour into prepared pan. Bake 25-30 minutes or until the edges are browned as well as a toothpick inserted into the view of the pan comes out alongside but i or 2 moist crumbs. Cool on wire rack. Slice as...

Ingredients: 1 large onion, sliced into half-moons 1 1/2 lb honeycrisp apples, sliced ii 1/2 lb boneless pork butt 12 oz bottle chili sauce (like Heinz) 1 teaspoon terra firma mustard (powder) 1 teaspoon cayenne 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1 teaspoon granulated garlic body of body of water salt freshly terra firma dark pepper Directions: Place the onions together with apples inward the bottom of a 4-quart tiresome cooker. Place the pork roast on exceed of the onion. Add the remaining ingredients over the pork. Cover together with create on high four hours thence on depression for four hours. OR create 9-10 hours on low. Remove the roast together with shred amongst forks or "meat claws".  Discard whatever unwanted chunks of fat. Mash the onions together with apple tree mixture inward the tiresome cooker until nearly completely smooth. Return the shredded meat to the tiresome cooker together with toss amongst sauce. Serve on rolls or bread. My thoughts: It...

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 w...

Ingredients: 1 lb put down pork iii sprigs' worth fresh thyme leaves v leaves sage, chopped 1/4 teaspoon cayenne 1/4 teaspoon mace 1/2 teaspoon put down cardamom 1/4 teaspoon put down nutmeg 1/4 loving cup pocket-size cubed apple tree (I used Pink Lady) 1/4 loving cup crumbled Stilton salt freshly put down dark pepper 1 box (17.3 oz) puff pastry (defrosted) 1 egg yolk, beaten sesame seeds, optional Directions: Preheat oven to 350. Line i large or 2 smaller baking sheets amongst parchment paper. In a medium bowl, mix the pork together amongst the herbs, spices, cheese, too apple tree until all ingredients are evenly distributed. Roll the meat into 4 long sausages near 1 1/2 inch unopen to too near a pes long. Place each puff pastry sheet, unfolded on a large apartment surface. Slice inwards half, length-wise. Place a sausage inwards the middle of each of the 4 sheets. Fold the canvass over the sausage too press unopen amongst the tines of a fork. Repeat f...

Ingredients: ii cups  whole milk 1 loving cup sugar iii eggs 1 loving cup canola oil 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla iii cups flour 1/4 teaspoon salt ii 1/2 teaspoons baking powder 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon 1/4 teaspoon allspice 1/2 teaspoon cardamom 1 loving cup halved golden berries (aka Earth cherries, cape gooseberries) 1 large ginger gilt apple, grated 1 1/2 tablespoon honey for the glaze: 1 loving cup confectioners sugar ii tablespoons milk 1 tablespoon honey Directions: Preheat oven to 350. Butter in addition to SUGAR i Bundt pan. Set aside. Squeeze the liquid out of the grated apple. Use i 1 loving cup grated, drained apple. Discard or repurpose whatever leftover apple. In a large bowl or bowl of a stand upwards mixer, trounce together the milk, sugar, eggs, oil, spices, in addition to vanilla until smooth. In a dissever bowl, whisk together the flour, salt, in addition to baking powder. With the mixer running, flow inwards the dry out ingredients in...

Ingredients: for the croutons: a few slices day-old cornbread (I used this  country ham cornbread ), cutting into bite-sized cubes 2-3 tablespoons olive oil for the salad: 1/3 loving cup toasted walnut pieces* three small-medium roasted beets , chopped 1 cooked chicken breast, cutting into bite-sized pieces 1 stem celery, sliced 1 modest crimson onion, sliced into quarter moons 1 large Stayman-Winesap apple, thinly sliced three oz crumbled bluish cheese 10 oz infant arugula 2 tablespoons sherry vinegar ocean salt freshly basis dark pepper Directions:  Preheat oven to 350. Line a baking sail alongside parchment. Set aside. In a medium bowl, toss the cubed cornbread alongside the olive oil. Arrange on the prepared pan. Bake 10 minutes, stirring once, or until crisp. Allow to cool briefly. Meanwhile, toss together the salad ingredients. Divide onto 2 plates together with come about alongside cooled croutons. *I heated them inwards a dry out s...

Ingredients: v cups chicken or ham stock two cups cubed smoked ham* 1 1/2 loving cup frozen peas 1 loving cup light-green separate peas 1 loving cup yellowish separate peas 1/4 loving cup diced apple tree (I used a Stayman Winesap) two carrots, diced two stalks celery, diced two cloves garlic, minced 1 large onion, diced 1 large shallot, minced 1 pocket-size to medium bulb fennel, diced 1 1/2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce 1 teaspoon celery flakes 1 teaspoon dried parsley 1 teaspoon dried chervil 1 teaspoon dried oregano 1/2 teaspoon dark pepper 1/2 teaspoon dry soil fennel seed 1/2 teaspoon summertime savory 1/2 teaspoon smoked paprika 1/2 teaspoon cayenne 1/2 teaspoon dillweed 1/4 teaspoon celery seed 1/4 teaspoon dry soil mustard Directions: Pick over separate peas to take whatever stones or stems that mightiness hold upwardly present. Place all ingredients except for the frozen peas inwards a four quart deadening cooker. Stir. Cook on depression 12-15 ...

Ingredients: 10 Stayman Winesap apples, sliced 1 loving cup apple tree cider 3/4 loving cup nighttime brownish sugar 1 stick cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon freshly dry reason nutmeg Directions: Place all ingredients inwards a 4 quart deadening cooker . Cook on depression for 10-12 hours. Vent past times placing the lid on askew together with gear upwardly on depression for an additional 10-12 hours or until most of the liquid has evaporated. Remove the cinnamon stick together with then pour the mixture into the nutrient processor together with puree. Cool completely together with refrigerate upwardly to three weeks or ladle when warm into prepared jars leaving 1/4 inch headspace together with procedure inwards a hot H2O canner for 10 minutes. Yield: nigh five 8-oz jars. Note: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 cracking beginning for canning data is the Blue Book direct to preserving . I highly recommend it for learning how to can. Here is a bunch of other canning books together with...