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Canned Apples with Cherries and Golden Raisins

A sweet, spicy autumn apple dessert, canned when you have plenty of fresh apples. The wonderful aroma of this recipe cooking in your kitchen will make you dream of bonfires, hoodies, and fall everything!

Ingredients
  

  • 24 medium sized apples Peeled, cored, and cut into eights or sixteenths
  • 2 cups Sugar
  • 2 cups water
  • 2 tablespoons lemon zest
  • 1 tablespoon lemon juice
  • 1/2 cup golden raisins
  • 1/2 cup dried cherries
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 1/4 teaspoon dried powdered ginger
  • Dash cloves

Instructions
 

  • Prepare a hot water bath canner, eight pint-sized canning jars, lids and rings.
  • Peel, core, and slice the apples. Submerge apple slices in a bowl filled with 1 cup of lemon juice and 4 cups of ice water until all are peeled.
  • Once apples are peeled, drain the lemon and water away. Place all apples in a sauce pan. Toss with sugar to coat. Cover; set aside for 20 minutes. Do not heat.
  • While the apples sit with the sugar, zest and juice the lemon.
  • After the 20 minutes are complete, pour water into the apple mixture. Heat to boiling. Add lemon zest, juice, spices, raisins and cherries. Boil gently for 5 minutes.
  • Use a slotted spoon and place fruit into canning jars. Ladle hot syrup mixture over fruit leaving 1/2 inch of headspace.
  • Remove air bubbles. Clean rims. Place lids and rings. Place into hot water bath canner with enough water to cover the tops as per directions for your canner.
  • Process for 20 minutes in hot water bath canner.
  • Remove canner lid. Wait 10 minutes after processing time to remove jars.
  • Allow to cool. Check seals. Label and date.