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Apple Butter in Memory of Ben's Great Grandma Lawson Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
Twelve to fourteen cooking apples (about 16 cups)
5 cups cider or water
2 cups sugar
1 tsp. ground cinnamon
1/4 tsp. nutmeg
1/4 tsp. ground cloves
1/4 tsp. allspice
Directions:
Directions:
Peel, core, chop apples, and add to cider in a large pan on stove. Cook like applesauce (until they become mushy). Pour apple sauce into slow cooking crock pot with lid cracked open using wooden spoon. Cook on low for 12 hours. Stir every 2 hours. During last hour of cooking add sugar and then stir every 10 minutes. During last 1/2 hour of cooking add spices. Will keep several weeks in refrigerator.
This apple butter may also be canned. Ladle into clean jars leaving 1/2 inch headspace. Adjust two piece lid. Process in a boiling water bath for 10 minutes.

May also be frozen.

Makes 5 to 8 cups of apple butter.
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
This is made in a crock pot but, of course, Great Grandma Lawson and family made it in a huge copper kettle with a fire going under it and someone to stir the huge ladle consistently for a whole day.

 

 

 

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