What do I do with apple butter?
I recently go a jar of apple butter. Any suggestions?
sandrina
Sep 17, 2006 06:58PM
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Applebutter sandwiches! (A little peanut butter and you're good to go!)
A dollop of applebutter with pork loin or pork chops.
Or a cup of applebutter as dessert.
Some of my fondest canning memories are of our applebutter session as a kid.
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swirl it into some cottage cheese, sprinkle with grapenuts, add raisins if you like them.. that's my default breakfast
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Add it to your morning oatmeal. You do have oatmeal for breakfast, right?
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Used to go to a restaurant where a pool of wonderful apple butter was served in the middle of some great full-fat cottage cheese. Love that.
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From Tyler Florence, a grilled turkey,brie and apple butter sandwich. Here's the linke:
http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recip...
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A grilled ham (very thinly sliced), cheddar and apple butter sandwich is good, too.
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Heat flour tortillas with a little oil and then roll them up with the apple butter as filling. I like to then sprinkle them with a little cinnamon and sugar and toss them back in the skillet for a bit to caramelize the sugar and give them a crispy coating.
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I like to melt apple butter and pour it over pecans that have been warmed in the oven, then sprinkle with a little salt and eat or serve while warm. it's really good.
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Thanks for all the great suggestions...especially the one of stirring it into my oatmeal or into cottage cheese. I eat oatmeal quite frequently, and I think this will definitely kick things up a bit! I'm also going to be having it with pork chops this week. This stuff is so good, I've been eating it right out of the jar with a spoon!
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Just wondering...what brand of apple butter is it?
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I can't believe no one has mentioned what it was meant for ... slathered on biscuits or muffins. There's a restuarant in SF that serves apple butter with a basket of it's house-made min-muffins and rolls. It is especiall good on one of their yeasty rolls ... roll, spread with butter, topped with apple butter. Sometimes they do other fruit butters like peach or strawberry.
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I know! Biscuits all the way! Mmmm...
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Or toast too.
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If you want to make a lower-fat carrot cake, replace some of the volume of oil called for with apple butter.
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I worked in a restaurant years ago that made an apple butter bbq sauce. I do not have the recipe, but you should be able to adapt your favorite recipe. It was good.
Ditto on replacing some fat with apple butter.
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Apple Butter on Pancakes is excellent.
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It sounds like this jar of apple butter won't last long! For the next jar, try a cake made with apple butter instead of some of the oil. Eating Well's Favorites cookbook has a recipe for carrot cake that sounds good, and I found this Apple Spice Cake recipe online:
http://www.eatingwell.com/recipes/app...
Anne
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Absolutely apple butter with pork chops or pork tenderloin. Also, try it on French toast - or for that matter, plain old ordinary toast! And (because I just thought about it and it sounded good), how about with a ham sandwich, or just with ham in general? Almost all pork is good with a bit of sweet...except possibly pigs' feet.
wendyb
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I once took some apple butter and added dried Colman's mustard and a wee bit of vinegar to it and then made a sandwich spread that i then used to make lovely grilled ham and cheese sandwiches
it was tart, sweet, salty, slightly spicy and oozy cheesy delicious
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Apple butter is great on latkes, but my favorite use is for waffles or oatmeal.
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Face cream.
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if you warm it out of the jar, pour it over a plain poundcake
fold apple butter into vanilla ice cream
add to lamb stew as both a thickener & flavoring
you might wanna stock up on apple butter :)
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I would like to know how long apple butter keeps in the fridge once it's been opened.
Thanks kindly!
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I have an opened jar of apple butter in my fridge that's been there for over 6 months. It's fine.
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It probably sounds dull, but as a kid, one of my favorite afternoon snacks was rice cakes with apple butter... something about the crisp, puffy, empty palette of rice cake that highlighted the apple butter.
It's also good with plain yogurt, sweetened slightly with sweetener of some sort. It's particularly good with Total yogurt from TJ's.
Second its use on buttermilk biscuits.
Great topping for pancakes or waffles too.
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Also great with sausage...
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Use it as frosting! Here is a great apple cake that uses no refined sugars, and uses the apple butter in between laters, yum! - http://bittersweetblog.wordpress.com/...
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All great uses. Apple butter is good on everything.
I occasionally mix in a couple of spoons of a.b. in plain yogurt. As good as anything you can get in the store. (I use the NSA a.b., so it's a little better for you as well.)
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Apple Butter Bars, like date squares, but use apple butter as the filling instead of dates. Also, apple butter muffins, apple butter quick bread, apple butter scones, apple butter fry pies, apple butter pie....all this, of course, on top of what everyone else has mentioned....on hot buttered toast, on biscuits, and my favourite, with a sharp cheddar on, well, just about anything: bread, toast, english muffins, crackers....I think I'll go open a jar and have some now....
AnnieG
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Speaking of baked goods, I've recently been using Apple Butter as a fat replacement in cakes and muffins with much success. It was particularly a great addition to my Bran and Protein Muffins.
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