Alice, we do have lots of apple picking orchards around us, this being the New York apple growing valley. That makes it easy for us to buy a bushel -- or to pick a bushel, if we want to.... I presume that different apple cultivars will produce different apple butters. It is perhaps sacriligious of us, but our #1 favorite apple is a Washington State red delicious. They are very large, very firm, very juicy, very fragrant. I also like a McCombs, which is like an early mac and only has a 2 week season. Always wondered what became of the millions of 'greening' apple trees which used to produce our best apple pies and cobblers...? Once the Granny Smiths came in, the 'greenings' disappeared. Do you think they were all destroyed...??? Penny, NY . . ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.