How Do You Make Wild Grape Apple Butter?
Wild grapes or bullaces don’t make every year, but when they do, with this recipe you can make tasty apple butter and a fine jelly as well. Making this recipe is pretty much a whole day affair counting the preparations and cleanup afterwards, but it is well worth the effort. With a yield of 4 to 5 pints of apple butter and 4 to 6 quarts of juice, one recipe will stock your pantry well. In this article I tell how to make the apple butter and how to get the juice for the grape jelly that I tell how to make in my other article, “How to make Wild Grape Jelly”, listed under resources. Gather the supplies you will need. I have only used wild grapes not the commercially grown hybrid types, so I don’t know how they would turn out if used in this recipe. The apples need to be sweet apples such as Rome, Gala, Fuji, or Red Delicious, not tart ones such as Granny Smith. Make sure all the fruit you use is at its peak ripeness. For pureeing the apples you can use an old fashion hand cranked fruit si
