In the depths of making apple butter and pear-ginger butter. It is quite tedious. You have to cook the hell out of it. And because it has so much sugar in it, it really wants to burn to the bottom of the pot. So you have to be really careful to stir it often preventing the burn. The upside is that my condo smells wonderful. The pungent smell of apples, pears, cinnamon, ginger and burning sugar! Yummy.