Third Annual Apple Butter Boil

We gathered with our apple sauce and sugar in hand. The fire was already going and the copper kettle hot when we arrived. It was set up inside the shed again this year because of the constant threat of rain all day.

We all sit around the fire watching it cook and taking turns stirring the kettle. It is a relaxing way to spend the holiday. This year we added making s'mores to the festivities.

By lunch time we had finished cooking the apple butter and took it off the fire to cool while we ate our lunch.  After lunch we divided our portions and went home again. Our portion was twelve half pints and nine pints of apple butter from the two gallons of apple sauce we contributed to the cause.

It was a success once again. The time spent together is worth as much or more than the apple butter.