Apple butter

I have been making more bread which means I've been eating more jam. I don't like store-bought jam because it just tastes like sugar to me. (No sense of smell = smaller nuance of flavor = anything with a lot of sugar just tastes like a lot of sugar.) Even the kinds with less sugar still taste like dessert. I don't like my jam to taste like dessert. Maybe I'm in the minority. Anyway, this was Experiment One of the No Added Sugar Homemade Fruit Spread Experiment - the next one is going to be Fig-Date-Citrus.

1.5 lb apples

2 T water

dry ginger (1/2 t?)

fresh ginger (1/2 inch?)

cinnamon (1 t?)

cloves (1/2 t?)

(Makes about a cup)

Core the apples - I also peeled them because A) I haven't stolen my mother's food mill yet and B) these apples are from the farm and had been in my fridge forever, and looked very sad until I took off the peelings.

Slow cook overnight. My electric pressure cooker is my slow cooker, so I slow cooked overnight for about 6 hours with the steam vent open.

In the morning, use your hand blender to make applesauce. Remove cover from slow cooker, but leave cooker on, stirring occasionally, until the apple sauce is reduced to something you can spread on toast.

Spread it on toast..... I was going to take a picture but I ate it too fast.