Recipe - Easy Apple Butter

6 Unsweetened (14 ounce cans)
apple sauce
3 cup Sugar ( white; brown, other
sweetener of choice) *note
1 tablespoon Cinnamon
1 teaspoon Nutmeg
One fourth teaspoon Cloves

Note: I often use less sugar (1C) or no sugar if I am using the apple
butter in cooking. Hubby likes it made with the full amount for his morning
toast

Put applesauce and sugar in crockpot. (If using artificial sweetener do not
add to mixture until after the butter is done and cooled) Cook until about
half the original volume. I usually cook on high during day and low at
night. With my crockpot on my last batch I used high for 3 hours, low for 9
hours and high again for 8 hours. There is nothing magic about the timing
sequence. I add the seasoning in the last half hour of cooking. This makes
about 6 cups.

If your crockpot is too small for all the applesauce, use what you can and
add the rest after it has cooked down for a while.

I keep some in a jar in the frig and freeze the rest in small packets to
use later. You can also pour the apple butter when hot in steralized jars
and seal.

Posted to fatfree digest V97 #276 by Barb Beck barb@owlnut.rr.ualberta.ca
on Nov 25, 1997