My First Homemade Apple Butter
Yum! My mom and I made homemade apple butter this weekend from apples we picked in our orchard. We slow cooked them using a very cool and super easy recipe. The apple butter turned out amazing! One note, though, we almost totally blew it on the whole canning thing. Dude. Botulism. Bad. So, I have to say that we were pretty pleased with ourselves when the apple butter turned out beautifully and the canning process went smoothly and safely. It's one thing to talk about all the things you want to do, it's another thing altogether to actually do it.
Here is some helpful info on canning fruit:
