This has been in our family for years. It peels and cores apples.
The first things we do is bring the apples out of the shed.
We have eight of these buckets for the apple butter. They have to be washed before they go into the kettle.
Next they go into a copper kettle. We use to use wood underneath the kettle to cook the apples. Now we use a gas burner that is hooked to a gas tank to cook apples. You use a paddle to stir the butter so it does not stick.
After the apples are all cooked up, it is cooked for hours to cook all the water out of it. Then sugar is added to the apples. Then it is cooked another hour. Then the spices, cinnamon, cloves and oil of cinnamon are added to it. The heat under the kettle is turned off and the apple butter is put into jars to seal. We made about 20 gallons of apple butter.
It was a beutiful day, we had so much fun-work and lots to eat. Now we are all resting. Oh my .......what a day zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
