Apple Butter Recipe

Last Friday during our one-room school house "graduation" ceremony, we had cornbread with homemade apple butter.  The apple butter was made by my mom.  Several students requested the recipe so here it is! :)

CROCKPOT APPLE BUTTER

Apples, peeled, cored & finely chopped ¼ tsp. cloves

4 c. sugar (or less)   ¼ tsp. salt

4 tsp. cinnamon 2 ½ quart crockpot

Fill crockpot heaping full of finely chopped apples.  Lid may not fit at start, but apples shrink as cooked.  Mix sugar (sweet apples require less sugar), cinnamon, cloves, and salt and drizzle over the apples.  Cook covered on high 1 hour, then lower heat and cook all day until thick and dark in color, approximately 10-12 hours.  Stir occasionally.  

Put mixture in a blender in small batches and blend until desired consistency (this doesn’t take long, maybe 30 seconds).  Either put in small jars, cool, and freeze; or, reheat mixture to boiling on stove, turn off heat, and put in clean, hot jars and process in hot water bath for 10 minutes.