Apple Butter

Name: Apple Butter
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 1 h
Total time: 1 h 30 min
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 4 Quarts Apple Cider; 10 Cups Granny Smith Apples (peeled, cored, and quartered); 2 Cups Sugar; 1 Teaspoon Cinnamon; ½ teaspoon Cloves; ¼ teaspoon Ginger

Instructions

Prep:30minCook:1h

This old-fashioned apple butter recipe comes from a 1940s cookbook and skips the slow cooker entirely. You boil four quarts of apple cider down to two, then cook it with Granny Smith apples, sugar, and warm spices until it's thick and dark. Six ingredients, three pints, no pectin, and it's ready in about 2 hours.

Updated at: Mon, 26 Oct 2026 04:38:52 GMT