Pickled Crab Apples

Ingredients

• 4 qts crab apples
• 8 C sugar
• 3 C water
• 4 C vinegar
• 1 - 3“ stick cinnamon
• 1 T crushed ginger root
• 1 T whole allspice
• 2 T whole cloves

Directions

1. Wash pierce each apple c-bar needles.
2. to keep skins from bursting.
3. Heat sugar, water, vinegar & spices tied in bag.
4. Cool solution add apples & simmer till tender.
5. Let stand overnight. Pack cold apples in hot jars.
6. Boil syrup - pour over.
7. Process 5 mins in hot water bath.

Timing

• simmer till tender; let stand overnight; process 5 mins in hot water bath

Temperature

• Cool solution; simmer; cold apples; hot jars; boil syrup; hot water bath

Equipment

• washing vessel, needles, spice bag, cooking pot, stirring and measuring tools, hot jars, jar-filling tools, and hot-water-bath canner

Needs review

Uncertain instruction wording after ‘apple’: Abbreviation before ‘needles’ resembles a handwritten ‘w’ and may mean ‘with.’ Candidates: “w needles”, “& needles”.