Apple Butter Ain't B's Recipe

Total Time: 72 hrs 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 72 hrs

Ingredients

• 30 -40 apples (and 1 large stock pot)
• 3 cups dark brown sugar
• 1 (12 ounce) molasses
• 32 ounces apple juice
• 1 tablespoon cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon allspice
• 1/4 teaspoon clove
• 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg

Recipe

• 1 wash your apples and quarter them, place in the stock pot.
• 2 add the remaining ingredients in the stock pot and cook at very low temperature until apples start to juice.
• 3 once there is plenty of liquid turn heat up to medium high. cook until mixture starts to thicken.
• 4 take apples off the stove and cool to room temperature.
• 5 run apples through a food mill (you want to strain out all the seeds, pulp, skin etc).
• 6 poor apples back into a suitable size pot for the apple butter. cook down until very thick. sometimes i use a crock pot to finish off the apple butter to the very thick stage to keep from burning it.
• 7 once apple mixture has thicken, place in large container and refrigerate or this will make about 9 8-ounce canning jars.