Apple Butter

When I was sixteen I had this fantasy of making apple butter for Bob Dylan. I loved his music and imagined making him this gift. Last night I fell asleep with a vat of apples simmering on the stove top. When I got up I added cloves, ginger, sugar and a bit of apple cider. Then a few hours later when all the liquid was gone, I strained the reduced apple mush through the ricer. I filled four small jars with apple butter!