Homemade Crab Apple Juice Recipe

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One of my happiest childhood memories is of drinking crab apple juice straight from the jar at my babysitter’s house. The juice was always accompanied by some tasty home-baked cookies and delightful conversation. Now that I’m older, I wanted to recreate the magic.

Thankfully, friends of ours had an apple tree teaming with unwanted apples. If you’re making juice, you can even use the apples that have fallen. Make sure they’re not too bruised and avoid those that the bugs have used for lunch.

Recipe:

I have found that a commercial ice cream pail (the ones in ice cream shops, not in stores) full of crab apples makes around 4 jars of juice. This will very a bit depending on the variety of crab apples.

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30 minutes later the apples were picked and we were ready to make juice. The help may or may not have eaten a few apples along the way. No names shall be named.

These are my perfect pie apples to be frozen for later use. My juice apples just needed to be cut in half with the stems removed. Your juicer may require something different, so please read the instructions.

Start by sterilizing your jars. This time around I sterilized my jars in the dishwasher and was happy with how easy this method was. Enlist some friends to help you cut the apples. Have two large bowls filled with lemon juice: one for your perfect pie apples and another for the less perfect juice apples. Put on some music and make an afternoon of it… you’ll be cutting for a while.

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My juicer requires apples to be juiced for 90 minutes. I found that I could collect already at 45 minutes, and again at 90. I wouldn’t leave all of it for 90 minutes, because your juice will likely run over into your boiling water. Make sure you check and replenish the water with boiling water every 30 minutes.

Truth time. I steamed three sets of apples, getting just under 12 jars. It took me around 7 hours, not including picking time. I highly suggest setting aside a full day to make juice if you’re going to give it a try.

2. Steam the apples for 90 minutes, collecting juice at both the 45 and 90-minute mark. If adding sugar, boil juice until the sugar dissolves.

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3. Pour into a sterilized canning jar, leaving 1/2 inch headspace. Loosely screw on lid boil the jar for 10 minutes (15 high altitudes). The jars should have at least 1 inch of water overtop of them.

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If you’re looking to make delicious recipes with your homegrown hardy fruits, look no further. Check out my e-bookHardy Fruits Cookbookfor over 25 mouth-watering dishes!There’s nothing like the taste of homemade crab apple juice, and you can’t buy it in stores. If you love crab apple juice, the only way to get it is to make it yourself. And while it’s a lot of work to pick the apples, make the juice, and can it, it is definitely worth it.

Over the years, I’ve made and canned a lot of crab apple juice using different methods. Each method has its pros and cons, and I have my favourites depending on what my goals are. Yes, you can have goals when it comes to canning and preserving, as silly as that may seem.

In this post, I’ll go over the three different methods I’ve used to make crab apple juice, what you need to make them, and the pros and cons of each of them. So get your crab apples ready and let’s make some juice!

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Making crab apple juice without a juicer is the most labour-intensive of the three juice-making methods, but it’s also the cheapest and best use of the whole apple.

In short, you cut the crab apples, removing the stems, cores, and blossom ends. You then put these apples in water along with some lemon juice, and either leave them overnight in the fridge or cook them for 15 minutes and mash them.

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After either of these processes, you strain out the crab apple bits and either can or freeze the remaining juice. An extra-large bowl and a sharp knife are all you really need.

Because you’ve already cleaned the crab apples and there are no inedible bits, you can then make apple sauce with the leftover crab apple parts.

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I like making juice this way when I don’t have one huge stretch of time to make everything. I can cut apples in the evening, leave them in the water overnight, and then deal with everything else the next morning.

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When we were given an electric juicer to try out one harvest, I wasn’t sure if I was a fan. On one hand, it was very fast to put the apples through the juicer. There was no cutting and slicing–we just pressed the crab apples into the juicer and that was it.

On the other hand, I didn’t like the “juice” I ended up with. There was a large amount of pulp left behind and it was so slow trying to remove the juice from the very fine pulp. In the end, I decided that it wasn’t worth trying to separate the two and just made all of it into a smooth apple sauce.

I realize that I might not have used the best electric juicer on the market. However, I don’t juice vegetables or fruits on a regular basis, so it wouldn’t be worth it to me to invest in a high-quality juicer. If you juice more regularly, then this might be the method for you.

Recipe: Crab Apple Juice

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I’ll be the first to admit that using a steamer juicer to make apple juice is a finicky affair. You must watch the water levels in the bottom of the juicer. The whole contraption is heavy. And finally, you have to watch your clamp and be sure the hose is perfectly secured. I have had the pleasure of having chokecherry juice spilled all over my wooden floors because I didn’t secure the clamp properly and didn’t lift the hose up. *whomp whomp*

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But, if you want to make the prettiest and nicest textured juice, you’ll invest in the steamer juicer and do it anyway. Of the three methods, the steamer juicer makes the nicest juice, and the juice comes out hot enough to can it immediately.

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Steamer juicers are not cheap. But in my opinion, they are worth the investment because of the quality of the juice. You should also never have to replace it, except for the hose and clamp every 5 years or so.

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