Apple+butter

media type="custom" key="11515808" **Directions for Making Apple Butter**

**Yields about 9 - 10 pints**

** Ingredients and Equipment **

 * 9 quarts of Applesauce, fresh or canned (See step 1)
 * 2 tablespoons of ground cinnamon
 * 1 teaspoon ground cloves
 * 1/2 teaspoon of allspice
 * 4 cups sugar or Splenda, or an equivalent amount of sweetness to taste, from honey, stevia or frozen concentrated apple or white grape juice.
 * Jar grabber (to pick up the hot jars)
 * Lid lifter (has a magnet to pick the lids out of the boiling water where you sanitize them. ($2 at Target, other big box stores, and often grocery stores; and available online - see this page)
 * Jar funnel ($2 at Target, other big box stores, and often grocery stores; and available online - see this page)
 * 1 Crock pot (slow cooker) 6 quart size (if your crockpot is smaller, just reduce the ingredients proportionately)
 * Large spoons and ladles
 * 1 Canner (a huge pot to sanitize the jars of apple butter after filling (about $30 to $35 at mall kitchen stores, sometimes at big box stores and grocery stores.))
 * Ball jars (Grocery stores, like Publix, Kroger, Safeway carry them, as do some big box stores - about $8 per dozen quart jars including the lids and rings)[]