Pickled Crab Apples
Arwilda kept two different recipes with this title.
Pickled Crab Apples with white sugar
Decorative Recipe Tin handwritten two-card set
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
- Wash pierce each apple c-bar needles.
- to keep skins from bursting.
- Heat sugar, water, vinegar & spices tied in bag.
- Cool solution add apples & simmer till tender.
- Let stand overnight. Pack cold apples in hot jars.
- Boil syrup - pour over.
- 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
Spiced Crabapples with brown sugar
Mrs. Growson Kellogg Recipe Box two-card handwritten set
Spiced Crabapples
Ingredients
- 5-C of brown sugar
- 2 C. white vinegar
- 2 cinnamon sticks
- 2 Tb. whole cloves
- 4 quarts of crabapples
Directions
- cook sugar vinegar and spices 20 minutes
- Drop the crabapples a few at a time and
Timing: 20 minutes
Temperature: cook
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Yield: Makes 6 pints
Directions
- cook until tender, - Pack into sterilized jars adding syrup to within 1/2 inch of top. Seal.
Timing: cook until tender
Temperature: cook; sterilized jars
Equipment: cooking vessel, sterilized jars, filling utensil, and jar seals
As written
Ella Case
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Syrup and spices
- Mrs. Growson Kellogg Recipe Box two-card handwritten set
- 5 C brown sugar, 2 C white vinegar, 2 cinnamon sticks, and 2 Tb whole cloves for 4 quarts crabapples
- Decorative Recipe Tin handwritten two-card set
- 8 C sugar, 3 C water, 4 C vinegar, one 3-inch cinnamon stick, 1 T crushed ginger root, 1 T whole allspice, and 2 T whole cloves for 4 qts crab apples
Fruit cooking and preservation method
- Mrs. Growson Kellogg Recipe Box two-card handwritten set
- Cook syrup 20 minutes, add crabapples a few at a time and cook until tender, pack into sterilized jars, add syrup to within 1/2 inch of the top, and seal; makes 6 pints
- Decorative Recipe Tin handwritten two-card set
- Pierce apples, heat and cool syrup, simmer apples until tender, stand overnight, pack cold apples in hot jars, boil syrup, and process 5 minutes in hot water bath
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