Old Fashioned Apple Butter (Alison pantry)

If cooked on high in your crock pot, it takes all day to make this flavorful apple butter.

12-14 sweet-tart apples
2 cups apple cider or juice
ground allspice
ground nutmeg
sugar
ground cinnamon
ground cloves

PREPARATION:
Lightly oil crock pot. Don't peel, but wash, core and quarter apples. Put in crock pot. Stir in cider. Cover and cook on low for 10-18 hours or high for 2-4 hours.
Put soft fruit in food mill to remove skins.
Measure fruit back into crock pot. For each pint (2 cups) of fruit add: 1 cup sugar, 1 tsp cinnamon, ½ tsp allspice, ½ tsp ground clove and ½ tsp nutmeg. Stir well. Cover and cook on high for 6 to 8 hours. Stir every 2 hours. Remove cover after 3 hours to allow fruit and juice to cook down. Spoon into hot canning jars and proceed according to canning jar directions. Or spoon into freezer containers. Allow apple butter to cool and then store in freezer.
Makes about 5 cups.