Rainy Autumn Day Apple Butter

 It was a cold and raining October day.  I was home alone and found myself with nothing much to do.  The cats were asleep; the turtles are beginning their hibernating for the winter.  Realizing that I had purchased way too many apples, I decided to make something warm, spicy and delicious for us.

Searching for a recipe in several of my cookbooks and online, I came upon apple butter.  Well, I have been following Allrecipes for some time now and they had a couple of recipes, so I dug in and read them all and decided on one, changed a few things and began the process.

Here's the recipe: 

Rainy Autumn Day Apple Butter

1/4 cup  Maple syrup  (Log Cabin) 

 2 lbs. of Macintosh apples peeled, cored and diced 

 1/4 cup  dark brown sugar

                                                1 tsp each of cinnamon and ginger

                                                1/4 tsp of Cloves

Directions:

Combine the diced apples and maple syrup and cinnamon in a heave medium pot.  Cook for an hour on simmer until the apples can be easily mashed.   Mash the apple mixture to the desired consistency, I like it chunky.  Add the brown sugar and remaining spices and cook for another hour or so on simmer until the house smells like fall and the apples are a richer brown color.  

Place the apple butter in a glass jar and refrigerate.   It is amazing on toast, bagels and pancakes!