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How to Use Apple Butter
- Spread it on a sandwich. ...
- Stir some into your morning oatmeal. ...
- Use it in place of pizza sauce. ...
- Dollop it on top of pancakes and waffles. ...
- Swap it out for pumpkin puree in your favorite pumpkin pie recipe. ...
- Stir a couple spoonfuls into mashed sweet potatoes or butternut squash soup.
Apple butter is a spreadable preserve made by slow-cooking apples with warming spices such as cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg and allspice. The apples are cooked for a long time over low heat, caramelizing them, concentrating their flavor and turning them into a spreadable consistency.
While both applesauce and apple butter are made by slow-cooking apples with water, spices, and maybe a little sugar until you have something soft and saucy, apple butter is cooked much longer so that the mix cooks down even further to become a thick, glossy, caramelized spread.
If A is for Apple, then B is for baking.. Bread, muffins, cakes, tarts, hand pies, and of course traditional Appalachian Stack Cake are just the beginning! Apple butter adds a moist texture with hints of fruity goodness and spices. It speaks of fall – but brings a cozy comfort in those bitter days of winter.
*You can also preserve your apple butter via the water-bath canning method, which uses a canning pot. The recommending processing time is 10 minutes for pints and 15 minutes for quarts. Home-canned apple butter has a shelf life of about two years. Store in a cool, dark place.