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APPLE BUTTER (Grandma Nora Ferris' recipe)

4 quarts of thick applesauce
8 cups of sugar
1/3 cup of vinegar
4 teaspoons ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon of ground cloves
1/4 teaspoon of allspice

Place mixture in roaster or very large baking dish with a wide surface.
Cook at 300 F for about 4 hours stirring every 1/2 hour.
Yields 7 -8 pint jars.

Boil jars & lids 10 minutes. Fill hot jars with hot apple butter and seal. Set aside to cool then check to be sure lids are sealed. If not sealed store in fridge. Keeps a long time in fridge.

Grandma actually made her apple sauce for this recipe in the following way:
Wash and cut apples in quarters, cut out bad spots and leave in seeds and cores. Put enough water on them to cook goo. when mushy drain juice off . Strain apple pulp through colander.

I just make a thick apple sauce by not putting much water on the apples when cooking but I don't drain any of the juice away.

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All my readers I hope you really enjoy the Apple Butter - just pretend you are having a good whiff of the stuff right now. This "bread spread" is not very well known here in Wpg. I don't know if you can even buy it here. One of our friend who recently went to ND to shop had a sample of AB in a store or restaurant and came home really excited about it. So of course he is getting a jar of the homemade variety the next time we see him.