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The first weekend in October each year we cook 30 gallons of apple butter over an open fire. We cook it the way my grandparents did on their farm on the German Prairie, west of Mt. Vernon, MO. Lotta work, takes 14-15 hours of constant stirring. We make GOOD apple butter. Family and friends help. Anyone who stirs gets apple butter and good eats off my smoker.
Anyhow, we entered it in the Missouri State Fair this year.
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Congrats on the win. Sounds like an all day affair cooking cane syrup down here. Not many still do it.
Can't beat the taste of hard work. Congrats
Way to go Mike. Making my mouth watering just thinking about it.:highfive
Good job Mike. Makes great topping on buttermilk biskets��
Is this how you stir it?
Congrats!!!!
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Can’t beat that on a homemade biscut!
Congratulations on the win.
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Congrats, Mike!
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Originally Posted by ripnlips
It would be good on an old shoe :Rofl
Funny! Wouldn't work, that apple butter is boiling.Quote:
Originally Posted by keeferfish
Congrats! I LOVE apple butter!
Well done sir. I'll bet it's been 20 years or more since I've had some good apple butter.
Congrats on the win and thanks for sharing.
Looks fantastic....congrats on the win
When I was a young man (many years ago) I had apple butter and thought it was delicious.
My wife says it is just cooked down applesauce and I say no it's better than that!
What is apple butter?
Well, you are correct, your wife is wrong, knows little about apple butter. Or maybe that's the way it is made in Indiana? Or do folks make it in Indiana?Quote:
Originally Posted by funfishers
We're hillbillies from the Ozarks. We make a 30 gallon copper kettle full, works out to about 210 pints when done. Apple sauce does not require 14-15 hours of constant stirring over a hot open fire to cook down and concentrate the apple flavor. Apple sauce does not have 90-100 lbs of sugar in it (yep, 90-100). Or one ounce of pure oil of cinnamon. Some add other spices, we do not.
Try putting apple sauce on a hot buttered biscuit. Can't do that where I'm from, against the law, you'll get arrested for ruining a good biscuit. :biggrin
I certainly wouldn't want to be arrested for ruining a goof biscuit. Think that is a hanging offense in Tennessee