What is the difference between apple sauce and apple butter? Is it just that the butter cooks much longer and gets an immersion blender not the fork?
Jessica Fisher
Apple butter cooks down so much it becomes like a jam.
Linda
My apple butter is taking forever to thicken. Since I added the maple syrup and vanilla it’s been cooking for 9
hours. It’s condensed quite a bit , but I think it has lost the vanilla maple flavor. Any suggestions?
Jessica
I’m not sure. Did you do it in the slow cooker?
Jan
I’m sort of an apple snob every since I’ve discovered Honey Crisp … no appleauce, no apple butter, no nothing but a nice chilled apple that is cut into 8 pieces with one of them handy dandy apple cutters … and maybe, just maybe, I’ll toss a few slices in with a glass of white wine, but not very often … serve them cold and plain is my motto! 🙂
Wendy
I also do the apple pie filling. But we use it as a side instead. Kinda like Cracker Barrels fried apples. Goes great with pork. Only thing when canning anything don’t use thickeners or any kind of oil. It promotes botulism.
Jessica
You can use a commercial canning thickener called Clear Jel which is safe to can with. It can be purchased from Golda’s Kitchen website. 🙂 Makes beautiful apple pie filling and no spoilage or botulism risk.
Susan Moses
You don’t want to use canning thickener for apple butter. One trick is to put it in a larger pan so that more surface is exposed. An electric fry pan works good. It will evaporate fairly quickly. Apple butter is done when it goes ploop ploop.
Charli
Your timing is great! I’ve been canning apples for the past two weeks – applesauce, apple butter, apple pie filling, dried apples – and I still have half a bushel left! I’m not complaining, we haven’t had a great apple harvest like this in years. I’m trying this recipe today. Thanks!
Kathy
Can the apple butter be frozen? I usually freeze applesauce, but I was not sure about apple butter.
Jessica
I would think so, but I haven’t tried it. I know you can freeze jam, so I don’t know why not.
Carrie @ In the sweet sunshine
I made apple butter for the first time last year in the crockpot, and gave small jars of it away with fresh bread at Christmas. Not gonna happen this year though… apples are WAY too expensive here! Even a gallon of apple cider is $5-6! But I’ll save your recipe for another year — I never thought of putting vanilla in it, yum!
Dina S
What is the difference between apple sauce and apple butter? Is it just that the butter cooks much longer and gets an immersion blender not the fork?
Jessica Fisher
Apple butter cooks down so much it becomes like a jam.
Linda
My apple butter is taking forever to thicken. Since I added the maple syrup and vanilla it’s been cooking for 9
hours. It’s condensed quite a bit , but I think it has lost the vanilla maple flavor. Any suggestions?
Jessica
I’m not sure. Did you do it in the slow cooker?
Jan
I’m sort of an apple snob every since I’ve discovered Honey Crisp … no appleauce, no apple butter, no nothing but a nice chilled apple that is cut into 8 pieces with one of them handy dandy apple cutters … and maybe, just maybe, I’ll toss a few slices in with a glass of white wine, but not very often … serve them cold and plain is my motto! 🙂
Wendy
I also do the apple pie filling. But we use it as a side instead. Kinda like Cracker Barrels fried apples. Goes great with pork. Only thing when canning anything don’t use thickeners or any kind of oil. It promotes botulism.
Jessica
You can use a commercial canning thickener called Clear Jel which is safe to can with. It can be purchased from Golda’s Kitchen website. 🙂 Makes beautiful apple pie filling and no spoilage or botulism risk.
Susan Moses
You don’t want to use canning thickener for apple butter. One trick is to put it in a larger pan so that more surface is exposed. An electric fry pan works good. It will evaporate fairly quickly. Apple butter is done when it goes ploop ploop.
Charli
Your timing is great! I’ve been canning apples for the past two weeks – applesauce, apple butter, apple pie filling, dried apples – and I still have half a bushel left! I’m not complaining, we haven’t had a great apple harvest like this in years. I’m trying this recipe today. Thanks!
Kathy
Can the apple butter be frozen? I usually freeze applesauce, but I was not sure about apple butter.
Jessica
I would think so, but I haven’t tried it. I know you can freeze jam, so I don’t know why not.
Carrie @ In the sweet sunshine
I made apple butter for the first time last year in the crockpot, and gave small jars of it away with fresh bread at Christmas. Not gonna happen this year though… apples are WAY too expensive here! Even a gallon of apple cider is $5-6! But I’ll save your recipe for another year — I never thought of putting vanilla in it, yum!
Fishmama
@Carrie @ In the sweet sunshine, i never buy cider, so I don’t know what that price is. How much are apples where you are?