http://www.appalachianhistory.net/2011/08/apple-butter-thick-enough-to-slice.html Stories, quotes and anecdotes. Sun, 19 May 2013 20:12:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.appalachianhistory.net/2011/08/apple-butter-thick-enough-to-slice.html#comment-1278909 Apple Butter! | A Green Fig Tree Mon, 04 Mar 2013 13:25:14 +0000 http://www.appalachianhistory.net/2008/09/apple-butter-thick-enough-to-slice/#comment-1278909 [...] time. Finally, my mom was able to teach me this year! I’ve never known anyone personally who made it the old fashioned way (in a kettle outside over a fire), but I’m willing to bet that in any Appalachian community [...]

]]> http://www.appalachianhistory.net/2011/08/apple-butter-thick-enough-to-slice.html#comment-393804 How the Shenandoah Valley “apple-butter boils” beat “a South Georgia shinding all to pieces” « Cenantua's Blog Sun, 09 Oct 2011 16:17:11 +0000 http://www.appalachianhistory.net/2008/09/apple-butter-thick-enough-to-slice/#comment-393804 [...] sure to visit Dave Tabler’s Appalachian History Blog, where you can find this post that he wrote rather recently (August) about apple butter boils. 37.431573 -78.656894 LD_AddCustomAttr("AdOpt", "1"); LD_AddCustomAttr("Origin", "other"); [...]

]]> http://www.appalachianhistory.net/2011/08/apple-butter-thick-enough-to-slice.html#comment-290329 Janet Smart Tue, 30 Aug 2011 11:52:57 +0000 http://www.appalachianhistory.net/2008/09/apple-butter-thick-enough-to-slice/#comment-290329 No wonder I don’t make apple butter the old fashioned way! Just kidding, I remember when I was a child, in the fall all the family gathered in Grandma’s yard and made apple butter in a big kettle. I always assumed it was copper, but I don’t remember it being shiny. Grandma also put a silver dollar in the mixture to keep it from sticking. I love home made apple butter – much better than the store bought kind. I make it on my stove top, though, 5 pints at a time. It sure does taste good.

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