Apple Butter Recipe 2

Ingredients for Apple Butter Recipe 2

• 1/2 peck sour apples
• Cider, fresh or boiled
• 1 quart sliced sweet apples
• Spices to taste

Instructions

1. Pare, quarter, core, and slice the sour apples; add the sweet apples.
2. Weight the apples and take sugar equal to half the weight of the apples.
3. Add cider until it comes nearly to the top of the apples and let cook, stirring occasionally with a perforated paddle or slitted wooden spoon.
4. When the apples are soft and well broken up, add the sugar and spice in quantity as desired and stir until the consistency of marmalade.
5. Water may take the place of the cider.
6. Cinnamon, mace, nutmeg, and cloves are the spices usually selected.
7. Peach or plum butter is made in the same way.