Wash the apples. Line a colander with a thin cotton dish towel or a triple thickness of cheesecloth. Place the lined colander over a bowl. Using the large holes of a box grater, grate the apples, including the skin, into the lined colander. Grate the apples down to the core. Or peel, core, and quarter the apples and grate them in the food processor, then dump them into the cheesecloth-lined colander. Juice will start dripping through the dish towel into the bowl below. This is good. Add 1/4 cup (65 ml) of the sugar, the cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves on top of the grated apples and toss gently.