Spiced Crabapples

Posted by request. Original recipe from "Miss Stela."

• Ready In: 35 mins
• Yields: 6 pints

Ingredients

• 4 1⁄2 cups white sugar
• 3  cups water
• 2 1⁄2 cups white vinegar
• 1 (4 inch)  cinnamon sticks
• 1  teaspoon  whole allspice
• 1  teaspoon  whole clove
• 8  cups  washed, drained, and pricked once with a fork  crabapples

Directions

1. Combine sugar, water and vinegar in a large stainless or enamel saucpan.
2. Break up cinnamon and tie up with allspice and cloves in a large square of cheesecloth and add to pan.
3. Bring to a boil and boil for 10 minutes.
4. Add prepared crabapples and return pan to a boil, reduce heat and boil GENTLY for 10 to 15 minutes.
5. Remove spice bag.
6. Pack into clean hot jars to 3/4 inch from rim and add boiling syrup to cover, leaving 1/2 inch head space.
7. Do the jar thing.
8. Process in a boiling water bath for 20 minutes at altitudes up to 1000 feet.