Made some juice with apples from Mom and Dad’s backyard.

Picking Eating apples.

Picking apples with Grandpa.

We picked all the apples we could reach.

Apple Butter: Day Six - It’s so hot and the smell of apples is making me sick.  I don’t think I’m gonna make it.

We’re going to need some more shelves.

(top left to right) - Cayenne pepper sauce, peach and habanero hot sauce, peach and walnut conserve, trail apple jelly, dried cayenne peppers

(bottom left to right) - Dill pickles, deli-sliced pickles, pickled beans, pickled banana peppers, spicy pickled beans, apple butter.

Manitoba is full of apples and apples are full of butter…or something like that.

Fill a slow cooker with tart apples (quartered, don’t peel or core).  Cook on low for 18 hours.  Strain to get rid of the seeds and skin, then add sugar, cinnamon, and cloves (all to taste).  Cook for another 4 hours.  If canning, process the filled jars for 10 minutes.