{"id":737,"date":"2008-10-01T17:41:45","date_gmt":"2008-10-01T22:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/?p=737"},"modified":"2012-01-07T12:27:03","modified_gmt":"2012-01-07T18:27:03","slug":"the-applebutter-adventure-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/the-applebutter-adventure-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"The applebutter adventure continues&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After nearly three days of simmering, my applebutter is finally ready for canning!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what has happenned since my last post: (I know the anticipation must be getting to\u00a0you. I mean, this is crazy exciting stuff. Okay, maybe not THAT exciting.)<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I continued simmering the applebutter (yes, that was day 2)\u00a0in the slowcooker and intrigued my sister in law, <a href=\"http:\/\/thehappyhousewife.com\/\">The Happy Housewife<\/a>, who started calling for updates. (I am not kidding. She has called several times throughout this saga. It&#8217;s nice to have her cheering for me. And I think she is additionally entertained by the fact that I, one who is not completely domestic, have made such a jump into the kitchen world. She asked me several times why I decided to make all the applebutter rather than just go but some. I told her I wanted to try out the new adventure.)<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, as the evening grew later we discussed the applebutter situation and decided it needed to simmer with the top off so all the steam could escape. I placed towels all around the crockpot and called it a night, leaving the brew a bubbling.<\/p>\n<p>Going to bed with the Crockpot on made me a little nervous. But I was determined to get the applebutter done. And I learned that one of my mom&#8217;s friends is a home-ec teacher and that&#8217;s how she does it with her class (yes slowcookers on overnight). So, I decided to keep simmering.<\/p>\n<p>This morning I was delighted to find a much-reduced cauldron. I mean crockpot.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s539.photobucket.com\/albums\/ff360\/Momstoolbox\/?action=view&amp;current=DSCF1447.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/DSCF1447.jpg\" alt=\"applebutter\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As the day continued, the applebutter continued reducing.<\/p>\n<p>At about 1:15 this afternoon I decided to use the mixer to smooth it out a bit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/s539.photobucket.com\/albums\/ff360\/Momstoolbox\/?action=view&amp;current=DSCF1450.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/DSCF1450.jpg\" alt=\"making it smoother\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then I simmered about one more hour, until it finally reached the right beautiful applebutter consistency.<a href=\"http:\/\/s539.photobucket.com\/albums\/ff360\/Momstoolbox\/?action=view&amp;current=DSCF1456.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/DSCF1456.jpg\" alt=\"bubbling applebutter\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I stirred it up a bit and tasted victory&#8230; and it&#8217;s pretty yummy!<\/p>\n<p>But with all this applebutter you know this adventure cannot be over yet. Tune in next time for Amy&#8217;s first canning adventure&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry to leave you hanging&#8230; I&#8217;ve got to stop blogging and head out for a grownup dinner.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/momflower.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-207\" title=\"momflower\" src=\"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/momflower.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"80\" height=\"40\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After nearly three days of simmering, my applebutter is finally ready for canning! Here&#8217;s what has happenned since my last post: (I know the anticipation must be getting to\u00a0you. I mean, this is crazy exciting stuff. Okay, maybe not THAT exciting.) Yesterday I continued simmering the applebutter (yes, that was day 2)\u00a0in the slowcooker and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[403,396,6],"tags":[410,407],"class_list":["post-737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appetizers-snacks-eat","category-desserts","category-eat","tag-fun-food","tag-slow-cooker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=737"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10532,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions\/10532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.momstoolbox.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}