Apple Butter with the Old-Fashioned Taste

Grandmother made apple butter for two important reasons that are just as valid today: it tastes exceptionally good and it makes use of the sound parts of culls or windfalls. Once apple butter cooked for long hours in big black kettles over fires built in the yard. Someone had to stir it constantly so neighbors came over to take their turns at the stirring and to visit. Our Oven Apple Butter needs little stirring (about once every half hour—three times in all). And its taste matches that of the most delicious apple butters of yesteryear.