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Home All Recipes Canning & Preserves Fruit Preserves Apple Butter

Apple Butter

This simple Apple Butter recipe is written in the wonderfully brief style of an old recipe card. Apples and sugar are combined with vinegar and warm spices, with the amounts largely left to the cook’s judgment.

Handwritten recipe card for Apple Butter

Even apples & sugar
2 gals
½ cup vinegar
spice to suit
cinnamon
nutmeg
cloves – a very little
allspice

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# apples# spiced
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