Homemade Slow Cooker Apple Cider
- Yield 14
- Prep 10 minutes
- Total 10 minutes
Homemade Slow Cooker Apple Cider is a christmas recipe on Avoteb. The yield on the card is 14. Plan on 10 minutes from start to plate. The amounts and the method are both on this page.
Ingredients
Yield: 14 servings
- 9 medium apples, assorted types (I used a mixture of red, yellow and green apples)
- 1 orange
- 3 cinnamon sticks
- 1 whole nutmeg
- 2 teaspoons whole cloves
- 1/2 teaspoon whole allspice (optional)
- 12-16 cups water
- 1/3 – 2/3 cup brown sugar (or your desired sweetener*)
Method
Wash apples and the orange, and then roughly cut into quarters. (Don’t worry about removing peels, seeds, or stems.) Place in the bowl of your a large cooker. Tip in cinnamon sticks, nutmeg, cloves and allspice. Lid with water, filling the slow cooker until it is nearly full. (the cook left about 1/2 inch of space at the top of the cook pot.) Cook on a hot burner for 3-4 hours, or on a low burner for 6-8 hours.
About an hour before the cider is done cooking, use a potato masher (or tongs or the side of a spoon) to mash the apple and orange slices once they are soft. Finish cooking for one more hour.
Strain out the apple cider juice into a clean pitcher or pot. To get the maximum juice out of the apples, you can press them through a fine-mesh strainer or strain through a cheese cloth. Stir in your desired amount of sweetener until it is dissolved.
Plate hot. (You can also move the cider to a heat-safe sealed container and refrigerate for up to 5 days. Just rewarm the cider to serve.)
