I have my favorite way of making apple butter, but sitting here reading these methods has made me so hungry that I am going right to the kitchen and making some toast and eating some of mine, a constant in my refrigerator door. My grandkids always want apple butter and any kind of bread that I have handy when they come in.
My recipe comes from my BH&G little red checkered New Cook Book from 1963. I think someone gave it to me as a gift when my youngest son was born (1963). Mine takes more than one day to make it, but I don't have to peel the apples, just run them through a food mill when they get tender. Yummmmmmmmm.