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Old-Fashioned Apple Butter

Boil ten gallons of sweet (apple) cider until reduced one half, then add, a few at a time, three pecks of pared, quartered, and cored cooking apples. Stir constantly with a wooden utensil made for the purpose, and let cook four or five hours. Add ten pounds of sugar and five ounces of ground cinnamon, and let cook again till quite thick, or until the mixture is like marmalade. The wooden utensil used in stirring breaks up the apple.