This past weekend we visited Lisa's parents in Frankfort and continued the Apple Butter tradition for the third year.
This year's addition? Matching T-shirts (I'll spare you). :-)
We started with two bushels and a peck of various apples, including Golden Delicious, Cortland, and Ida Red. These were peeled and cored, and put into a big copper pot over a flame for several hours.
Here's what it looked like at the start:
Then, about four hours in:
..and finally, around hour 7:
At the very end, we added sugar and a pound or so of red hots, and after a final 30 minutes of stirring the finished product was put up in jars:
The next morning, we sampled the stuff on fresh biscuits. Good stuff.
Hopefully, this year's batch will last through to next year.