Apple Butter Made Vermont Way
An old-fashioned apple butter made with cider, dark brown sugar, cinnamon and cloves, then cooked slowly until thick.
Category Canning & Preserves
Canning and preserving recipes saved in Aunt Bertha’s Recipe Box, including pickles, relishes, jams, preserves, and other tried-and-true ways of preserving the harvest.
Olave Pickles
A sweet green tomato and onion pickle seasoned with mustard, pepper, allspice and cloves.
Sweet Cucumber Pickles
Sliced cucumber pickles preserved with cider vinegar, sugar, mustard seed, mixed spices and onion.
Apple Butter
A simple Apple Butter recipe flavored with cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and allspice.
Katherine’s Bread & Butter Pickles
Sweet and spiced bread and butter pickles made with cucumbers, onions, and peppers.
Rhubarb Conserve
A typed recipe for Rhubarb Conserve—rhubarb, citrus, raisins, and almonds come together in a preserve that’s anything but ordinary.
Rhubarb Jam
A 1956 rhubarb jam recipe made with raspberry Jell-O, using just three simple ingredients.
Scott’s Sweet Pickles
A handwritten recipe for Scott’s Sweet Pickles—pack the jars, turn them every few days, and let two weeks do the rest.
Lizzie’s Dill Pickles
A handwritten recipe for Lizzie’s Dill Pickles—with a hot three-ingredient brine, one line of directions, and, curiously enough, no dill in sight.