can you smell

[dipweed23]

I like this one... gives whole new meaning to bigger is better!

http://www.cooks.com Wrote:HOMEMADE APPLE BUTTER

40 gallon copper kettle
Stirrers, wooden and human
Fire wood
Approximately 16 bushel apples (we use Staymans)
80-100 lb. sugar
1 oz. bottle oil cloves
1 oz. bottle oil cinnamon
Allspice

Peel all apples and slice then night before you are to make apple butter. Approximately 5 A.M. start five to go under kettle. Start with small amount of apples in kettle. Stir constantly. Gradually add more apples as they cook down. After all apples have been put into kettle cook approximately 4 hours. Then add 80 pounds of sugar and add more to your taste. Stir very rapidly; cook 1 hour then add your spices to taste. Cook 15 minutes. Pull fire from kettle when apple butter is right color, consistency to suit you. Yields 31-32 gallons of apple butter

[jayne]

sounds like what grandma used to do and all out back in a summer kitchen

[sweet tooth]

then mom would make fried pies with her apple butter and send for hubbie since i didnt like them

[red1030]

wow..that has been a long time also...I am really a country girl living in a big city... kinda lost here I would say... Carol

[jayne]

11 pints

[sweet tooth]

red i kinda know how youi feel the talk on here brings back so many memories it hurts sometime i miss moms cooking so bad i wish i could ask her so many questions sometimes one carol to another

[Tuffy]

As a kid growing up, I spent most Sundays at my grandparents farm with the rest of the family, aunts, uncles, cousins, And my grandparents had 9 children, Oh what memories, To bad kids today don't have what we had back then.

[Sithie]

Today I am making Blueberry marmalade. This is what I will give for Christmas this year, as we are broke, everyone will get stuff I have put by.

[Tuffy]

Sithie, I will trade you a jar of your marmalade, fr a loaf of my home mad Zuccheni bread. and jane also for a jar of applebutter. LOL

PS anyone make anything from Raspberries??? I love Raspberries