Apple Butter, by the gallons

Saturday morning Conrad and I left Tim at home splitting wood in the rain to do some work of another kind. A friend was cooking down about 5 bushels of apples over an open fire to make apple butter and what better way to spend a cold, rainy morning? Sure beats splitting wood in the rain!


Conrad was an apple peeler extraordinaire (like that knife right next to his station?). And when he tired of that job, he would run down to the fire pit
and check on the apples already in the cauldron.