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    • Tess Owens’ Baked Apple Butter

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    St. Louis Post3 1 servings

    INGREDIENTS

    10 lb Apples; peeled, cored,
    And chopped
    6 c Water
    3 lb Granulated sugar or dried cane juice
    1 3/4 ts Ground cinnamon
    1 1/4 ts Ground allspice
    1/3 ts Ground cloves
    1 pn Salt

    INSTRUCTIONS

    Place apples in a large nonreactive pot; cover with water. Bring to a
simmer; cook until apples are soft. Puree apples with a food mill or
immersion blender. Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Stir sugar, cinnamon,
allspice, cloves and salt into pureed apples. Transfer to a nonreactive
roasting pan. Cook in oven for about 5 hours. Be patient and stir often.
Cook until a spoonful of apple butter stands dry on a cool plate, with no
liquid weeping from the mound of apple butter. Transfer to sterile pint
jars; seal with lids and rings and process for
10    minutes in a hot-water bath. Refrigerate jars after opening.
Yielda about 3 quarts.
Recipe Source: St. Louis Post-Dispatch - 09-28-1998
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