Categories: pickles

Ingredients

• 4 quarts crab apples
• 2 cups vinegar
• 5 cups brown sugar
• 1 Tbsp. whole cloves
• 2 sticks cinnamon
• 1 Tbsp. whole allspice

Directions

1. Wash crab apples and remove blossom end. Do not pare. Combine remaining ingredients and simmer together 20 minutes. Add apples a few at a time and simmer until tender. Pack apples in hot sterilized jars adding syrup to cover apples. Seal.

2. makes 6 pints

3. If a spicier apple is desired, add 1 blade of mace and 1 small piece of ginger root to syrup with other spices.

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