On Sunday, October 19th, Wade's family made apple butter. This was Megan's first apple butter experience. We started at 7:00 a.m. washing apples, starting the fire, and beginning the nine-and-a-half hour process of converting sliced apples to jarred apple butter.
We used a very large copper kettle, a wooden paddle and a lot of muscle (more muscle from Wade than Megan). Ingredients include eight bushels of apples, 80 pounds of sugar, and a whole lot of cinnamon.
At the end of the day, two kettles of apples were turned into almost 400 pint-size jars of apple butter. For a full day's work, our cut was 25 of those pints. We can't wait to bake some biscuits to taste-test our newly produced apple butter. Until next year, when we might try our own batch, we'll enjoy our Stotts City, Missouri apple butter.
