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One-gallon bags of apples ready for the kettles on apple butter making day at Hiltons Memorial United Methodist Church, Hiltons, VA. Beverly Stidham and Carla Carter stir apples in their kettle in the background.

Sterilized rings and lids for canning jars in the Family Life Center at Hiltons Memorial United Methodist Church, Hiltons, VA

A Toastmaster Heater Proofer for warming jars for the apple butter at the Family Life Center at Hiltons Memorial United Methodist Church, Hiltons, VA

Pint jars in the Family Life Center at Hiltons Memorial United Methodist Church, Hiltons, VA

Freshly sterilized jars in the Family Life Center at Hiltons Memorial United Methodist Church, Hiltons, VA

Hiltons Memorial United Methodist Church, Hiltons, VA

Street sign in front of Hiltons Memorial United Methodist Church, Hiltons, VA

Church sign at Hiltons Memorial United Methodist Church, Hiltons, VA

A scoop is used to bag the apples at the Family Life Center at Hiltons Memorial United Methodist Church, Hiltons, VA

Carla Carter slices apples with a knife at the Family Life Center at Hiltons Memorial United Methodist Church, Hiltons, VA

Mutsu apples at the Family Life Center at Hiltons Memorial United Methodist Church, Hiltons, VA

Volunteers are hard at work processing apples at the Family Life Center at Hiltons Memorial United Methodist Church, Hiltons, VA

Once the apples are peeled, cored and sliced, volunteers quarter them at the Family Life Center at Hiltons Memorial United Methodist Church, Hiltons, VA

Containers full of peeled, sliced, and quartered apples, which will be refrigerated, await apple butter making day at the Family Life Center at Hiltons Memorial United Methodist Church, Hiltons, VA

Apples are placed into bags and then refrigerated at the Family Life Center at Hiltons Memorial United Methodist Church, Hiltons, VA

Removing excess peelings and quartering apples at the Family Life Center at Hiltons Memorial United Methodist Church, Hiltons, VA

Beverly Stidham demonstrates for her granddaughter, the next generation to carry on the tradition, how to peel and quarter apples

Rick Sumner uses a manual apple peeler at the Family Life Center at Hiltons Memorial United Methodist Church, Hiltons, VA

A list of the home canned goods with totals for the Lord's Acre Sale at the Family Life Center at Hiltons Memorial United Methodist Church, Hiltons, VA

Tim Stidham teaches his grandson, the next generation to carry on the tradition, how to peel apples at the Family Life Center at Hiltons Memorial United Methodist Church, Hiltons, VA

Due to an increase in prices, the price of the apple butter is raised from $7 to $8 at the Family Life Center at Hiltons Memorial United Methodist Church, Hiltons, VA

Marsha Helton consults the cookbook "bible" at the Family Life Center at Hiltons Memorial United Methodist Church, Hiltons, VA

Peeled, cored, and sliced apples await quartering at the Family Life Center at Hiltons Memorial United Methodist Church, Hiltons, VA

The shirt on the right says it all at the Family Life Center at Hiltons Memorial United Methodist Church, Hiltons, VA

Minnie Baker, who is 90 years old, and a 60 year member at Hiltons Memorial United Methodist Church, Hiltons, VA, quarters apples in the Family Life Center