Comments on: Apple Butter Recipe Your Grandma Would Be Proud Of http://dianasaurdishes.com/11/apple-butter-recipe-your-grandma-would-be-proud-of/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss Delicious, easy and healthy recipes on a shoestring budget Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:15:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jessica http://dianasaurdishes.com/11/apple-butter-recipe-your-grandma-would-be-proud-of/comment-page-1/#comment-5383 Jessica Sun, 11 Dec 2011 02:02:52 +0000 http://dianasaurdishes.com/?p=1183#comment-5383 Thanks so much! That's a huge help! Thanks so much! That’s a huge help!

]]> By: diana http://dianasaurdishes.com/11/apple-butter-recipe-your-grandma-would-be-proud-of/comment-page-1/#comment-5371 diana Fri, 09 Dec 2011 01:59:20 +0000 http://dianasaurdishes.com/?p=1183#comment-5371 I have two items of good news. The first is that you can just refrigerate it for several weeks so if you're giving it away and telling them to refrigerate you don't have to can it. The better news is that you don't need a canning rack at all! I've been canning a few years now and this is the first year I've bought actual canning "accessories". You can simply lower the jars in and out of the pot of water using canning tongs or rubber coated tongs. If you do want to get any canning accessories, I found Walmart to be the cheapest place. Good luck! I have two items of good news. The first is that you can just refrigerate it for several weeks so if you’re giving it away and telling them to refrigerate you don’t have to can it. The better news is that you don’t need a canning rack at all! I’ve been canning a few years now and this is the first year I’ve bought actual canning “accessories”. You can simply lower the jars in and out of the pot of water using canning tongs or rubber coated tongs. If you do want to get any canning accessories, I found Walmart to be the cheapest place. Good luck!

]]> By: Jessica http://dianasaurdishes.com/11/apple-butter-recipe-your-grandma-would-be-proud-of/comment-page-1/#comment-5360 Jessica Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:16:59 +0000 http://dianasaurdishes.com/?p=1183#comment-5360 I'm really excited to try this recipe. I want to make it for holiday gifts for my co-workers. I'm having a hard time finding a canning rack. I ordered one off the internet and it turned out to be too big for my stock pot (which is amazing because I have a HUGE pot that I couldn't have imagined would have not been big enough...) I don't have time to order a better size because my work place closes for the holidays in about a week and a half (yay for working in a school and getting winter break!) Anyway, the point of this is that I was wondering if the apple butter absolutely had to be canned. I know canning preserves the food and allows it to be saved, unrefrigerated for a long period of time, but is there a problem with not canning it? Am I able to just tell people it needs to be refrigerated? And most importantly, is it safe to give to people if it hasn't been canned? If so, about how long does it last refrigerated, but uncanned? Thanks so much for your help! I’m really excited to try this recipe. I want to make it for holiday gifts for my co-workers. I’m having a hard time finding a canning rack. I ordered one off the internet and it turned out to be too big for my stock pot (which is amazing because I have a HUGE pot that I couldn’t have imagined would have not been big enough…) I don’t have time to order a better size because my work place closes for the holidays in about a week and a half (yay for working in a school and getting winter break!)

Anyway, the point of this is that I was wondering if the apple butter absolutely had to be canned. I know canning preserves the food and allows it to be saved, unrefrigerated for a long period of time, but is there a problem with not canning it? Am I able to just tell people it needs to be refrigerated? And most importantly, is it safe to give to people if it hasn’t been canned? If so, about how long does it last refrigerated, but uncanned?

Thanks so much for your help!

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