I have a half a bushel of delicious but slightly mealy Honeygold apples
so I'm going to put up apple butter and applesauce tomorrow. I'd also
bake a fresh apple Bundt cake, but I'm trying to *lose* some weight this
holiday season rather than gain weight. Anyway...

I've got your apple butter recipe, the one where you talk about cooking
the apples in a microwave oven. Have you ever tried cooking the chopped
apples in a slow oven before you mill them? That would dry them out a
little, instead of having some of the juice cook out to be drained away.

Tomorrow should be good weather for having the oven on all day.

Best regards,
Bob