Hi Dublb, Glad to see you're up and about!!! from what I understand it takes a lot of apples and a long time to cook??? there are tons of apples around here..We have about 5 commercial growers in our county...
I remember going to the cellar of one of my great aunts to get Jars of each jam. to make stove top apple pies..that was a lot of fun..you would butter white bread ,put it in the middle of 2 discs that were connected to handles.spoon the jam on one side, place the other slice on top, close it, trim the edges, then place on the gas grate to toast it then flip it over & toast the other side until it was cooked...gosh, they were sooogood...we always made a mess..thank goodness my older sister was there to supervise...we could have burned the house down!!