We have over a dozen orchards within about 5 miles of my house, but I buy their cider there
Besides pies and baked apples, one thing I like to make is apple butter in the crock pot:
CROCK POT APPLE BUTTER
Put 3 quarts of apples, sliced thin, in a crock pot and cook overnight on high. Next morning, add 2 teaspoons cinnamon, 3 cups sugar, 1/2 teaspoon cloves. Cook all day on low. Tastes like old-fashioned apple butter that is cooked in copper kettle.
You can use applesauce if you do not have time to prepare the apples. The crock pot makes it possible for apples to cook a long time without being stirred.
(copied off the interwebs - I peel and core the apples first but that's because I have a neat contraption that does one in about 2 minutes
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