Apple Butter - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 peck apples
approximately 10 c. sugar
2 tsp. ground cloves
4 c. water
2 tsp. ground cinnamon
1 tsp. ground allspice

Preparation

Quarter and cook apples, unpeeled, with water.
Cover, let simmer until apples are tender.
Run through sieve.
There should be about 5 quarts apple pulp.
Add half as much sugar as you have pulp.
Add spices.
Let simmer 2 hours, stirring frequently.
When thick, pour into hot jars and seal at once.
Remember, apple butter becomes thicker when cold.
Makes 9 or 10 pints.