Categories: Fruits, Spreads 
      Yield: 1 servings 
  
      2 lb Dessert apples                    1/2    Orange 
      1 lb Cooking apples                    1/2    Lemon 
           Granulated sugar                         Ground cinnamon & allspice 
      2 pt Dry cider                       
  
  Fast boil the cider until reduced by half.  Peel, core and slice HALF of 
  each sort of apple; add them to the pan, pushing them well down into the 
  liquid.  Half-cover the pan and simmer gently until the fruit is soft. 
   
      Add the remaining apples, prepared in the same way, together with the 
  juice and zest of the citrus fruits.  Half-cover the pan and continue 
  simmering until all the fruit is well reduced, pulpy and tender. Stir 
  occasionally and crush the fruit down into the pan with a potato masher as 
  it cooks.  Measure the pulp and process it to a puree if it is at all 
  lumpy.  Add sugar at the rate of 10 oz for every pint of apple pulp, and 
  stir in about 1 teaspoon ground allspice. 
   
      Simmer, stirring frequently, until most of the moisture has been driven 
  off.  The readiness of a fruit butter is judged by its consistency, not by 
  set or temperature.  It is ready when it is nearly dry - a spoon drawn 
  across the mixture should leave its own impression.  Pot in small, clean, 
  warm jars and store in a very cold larder or fridge.  Once jar is opened, 
  the contents should be eaten up within 3 or 4 days. Makes enough to fill 4 
  or 5 small jars. 
   
  Source: Philippa Davenport in "Country Living" (British), March 1989. Typed 
  for you by Karen Mintzias