Apple Cinnamon Syrup-Canning
Description: This makes a lovely gift! Adapted from the Ball Blue Book of Canning. Apples are grown all over America. New England, Mid Atlantic, Canada, Mid West, Western, South.
Ingredients:
- 6 cups apple juice
- 3 cinnamon sticks, broken up
- 5 cups sugar
- 4 cups water
- 3 cups corn syrup
- 1/4 cup lemon juice
Steps:
- Combine apple juice and cinnamon sticks in a large saucepan. Simmer 5 minutes, and set aside. Next, combine the sugar and water in a medium saucepan. Boil to 260*F. Add apple juice and corn syrup to sugar syrup. Boil 5 minutes. Remove the cinnamon sticks. Stir in the lemon juice. Ladle the hot syrup into hot jars, leaving 1/4" headspace. Adust caps. Process in a boiling water canner 10 minutes.
- Yield: about 6 pints.
