Apple Butter Recipe 2 ingredients

• ½ peck of sour apples Cider, fresh or boiled
• 1 quart of sliced sweet apples
• Spices to taste

To prepare this Apple Butter Recipe 2, first pare, quarter, core and slice the sour apples; add the sweet apples. Weight the apples and take sugar equal to half the weight of the apples. Add cider until it comes nearly to the top of the apples and let cook, stirring occasionally with a perforated paddle that comes for the purpose or with a slitted wooden spoon. When the apples are soft and well broken up, add the sugar and spice in quantity as desired and stir constantly until of the consistency of marmalade. Water may take the place of the cider. Cinnamon, mace, nutmeg and cloves one or more are the spices usually selected. Peach or plum butter is made in the same way.