Apple Butter (for breakfast)

Apple butter is a great way to preserve dessert apples that will not keep or store.

One of our favourite recipes to preserve apples is making Apple Butter, completely without sugar. If the apples are sweet you can leave out the honey too. It is great in porridge, muesli or with pancakes.

Ingredients:

1 kg apples

150g honey

1 lemon freshly squeezed (optional)

½ to 1tsp of vanilla extract and a pinch of cinnamon.

Method:

Peel the apples (the peels can be dehydrated and made into natural pectin!), cut into chunks and simmer on very low temperature with a little water until they are soft. Mash with a potato masher or liquidise with a stick blender or in a blender. Add honey and lemon juice if you like and the spices.

Heat the mix up until it bubbles and fill hot into sterile pre-heated jars and close with twist - off lids. Turn them upside down for a couple of minutes. Turn them back and let them cool down. Store in a cool place.