use what you have – Apple butter in a slow cooker

Hello everyone

there were several containers of applesauce in our pantry, most were freebies from Kroger and they were all getting close to their used by date my daughter recently made pear butter. And I've watched several YouTube videos recently of people, canning jelly and jam. So I decided to try turning that plain applesauce into apple butter. I looked up a few recipes. I didn't follow any of them exactly but I will put my recipe that I used below and it turned out Delicious! We like a lot of cinnamon, so mine does have a good bit of that. And it is not canned to American food safety standards. I put the hot apple butter straight from the slow cooker into recycled jars and put the lids on them. Then, when they cooled, they went in the fridge. I'm sure it could be water baths and official canning jars and kept in the pantry, but I'm not giving advice on how to do that because I don't know. for this batch of apple butter, I used About 8 cups of unsweetened applesauce 3/4 cup of sugar 3/4 cup of brown sugar Heaping tablespoon of cinnamon Half a teaspoon of allspice And a few pinches of salt I let it cook in a slow cooker for about five hours. I started every hour or so and stopped when it was thicker Then it went right into jars with lids And into the fridge when it cooled. ❤Rhonda