Instructions: When I was young, my grandmother and my mother used to make apple butter outside in a copper vat over a wood fire. Now My Mom and I (my grandmother is now deceased) started to make our apple butter in a large roaster pan.

We would bake it in the oven the following:

As much applesauce as you can make to fill the roaster (we used a large roaster, and you could use a small one. (We just use jarred applesauce; about 8 quarts). Bring this to heat and add to it 2 cups brown sugar and 2 cups
white sugar. Add 2-3 tsp cinnamon, and 2 tsp. ground cloves and stir. Put in roaster in 300 degree preheated oven and let cook, as it cooks down pour in some apple cider (or apple juice) to thin.. stirring often.

About an hour later stir and taste and add more white (granulated) sugar, more spices as needed to suit your taste. Keep adding apple cider as it thickens. Stir often. Cook for 12 hours. We would start at 6 a.m. and cook, adding cider and stirring until it gets to the right consistently that you like.

This takes a lot of time, but in the end its worth it. This is the real way to make apple butter country style!! Put the Apple butter in pint size sterilized jars, wipe top of jars very clean, put a disc on top and screw a band on tight.

You can boil the filled jars in a
canner according to the manufacturers directions (15 minutes, usually).

Store on a shelf in a cool area.

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