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Silly as it sounds, making Apple Butter is the easiest thing ever since the Pres and I found this recipe in the paper a few years ago.

It's done in a crock pot and it effortless with exception of growing the apple trees, caring for the apple trees, harvesting the apples, peeling/coring/slicing the apples with my magic LLBean apple corer/peeler/slicer that I've had for years.

APPLE BUTTER

This recipe is for a crock-pot or slow cooker!

12 cooking apples (14 cups), peeled, cored, sliced and placed in pot

2 cups sugar

1 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon

1/2 tsp ground cloves

1/2 tsp nutmeg

Stir in sugar and spices.  Cover and cook on high heat for 4 hours.  Uncover, stir and cook on high 2-2 1/2 hours more or until apples are very tender and most of the liquid has evaporated.  Cool at least 1 hour (or cover and refrigerate overnight).  When cool, process in blender or food processor in batches.

Enjoy!