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Prep Time: 0 Minutes Cook Time: 60 Minutes |
Ready In: 60 Minutes Servings: 3 |
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Makes 3 quarts.Great side dish with Braised Greens, Roast Vegetables, Roast Turkey or other poultry. These apple rings can be canned for long-term preservation or stored in the refrigerator for up to 2 weeks. Ingredients:
5 pounds firm cooking apples |
(golden delicious, granny smith, jonathan, gala, jonagold, etc.) |
2 cups sugar |
2 cups water |
red food coloring (optional) |
4 cinnamon sticks |
ascorbic acid powder, vitamin c tablets, or lemon juice |
Directions:
1. Wash and core apples; do not peel. Slice apples into 1/2 inch thick
2. rings. To prevent browning, drop apple rings into a bowl of cold
3. water (about 2 quarts) containing 1/2 teaspoon ascorbic acid powder
4. (1500 mg), or use equivalent in finely crushed vitamin C tablets or
5. 1/2 cup lemon juice. Keep apples covered with ascorbic acid water
6. until ready to use.
7. Combine sugar, 2 cups water and cinnamon sticks in a large
8. saucepan. Add a few drops of red food coloring, if desired.
9. Bring syrup to a boil and boil for five minutes.
10. Remove from heat. Drain apples, add to syrup. Return syrup and
11. apples to a boil; reduce heat and simmer 30 minutes.
12. Remove from heat and let stand until cool. Remove apple rings from
13. syrup. Loosely pack apple rings into canning jars leaving 1/2 inch
14. headspace. Return syrup to heat and bring to a boil.
15. Remove cinnamon sticks. Ladle hot syrup over apple rings leaving
16. 1/2 inch headspace. Remove air bubbles. Adjust two-piece lids.
17. Process pint size jars 15 minutes, or quarts 20 minutes in a boiling
18. water bath canner. Yield about six pints or three quarts.
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