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apple butter en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Preserved apple purée with spices.
   • APPLE BUTTER SANDWICH: On thin slices of lightly buttered white bread, spread apple butter. Sprinkle chopped candied orange peel, cover with another slice of bread. 1909, Eva Greene Fuller, The Up-To-Date Sandwich Book: 400 Ways to Make a Sandwich, page 142:
   • DOMESTIC LIFE IN AMERICA. (In a Letter from a Correspondent at Cincinnati.) This town is far superior to our late place of sojourn, Pittsburgh, being spacious and clean, with handsome houses and wood for fuel. Pittsburgh, on the contrary, is dirty and confined, abounding in iron works burning coal, which gives forth a denser smoke than English coal. The houses in this place, when we visited it in 1818, were mostly of wood; these have been in general removed on wheels drawn by oxen and horses, and placed in the suburbs, whence they are now removing once more. Here are four markets well supplied with the necessaries, and even the luxuries, of life, including almost everything you can think of, and many things which you have never thought of. Apple butter, for instance, is one of the latter, and is made by stewing apples in new cider, after it has been boiled down to one-third of its bulk. It is sold at 6¼ cts. per quart, and is very delicious. The fruits of this country are abundant […] 1832 May 26, “Domestic Life in America”, in The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, number 548, page 323:

Forms

Coordinates

apple sauce · apple juice

Relateds

spread · preserves · jelly · jam

Translations (7)

de Apfelsirup (preserved apple purée) · nl appelstroop (preserved apple purée) · mk јабо́лково пире́ (preserved apple purée) · pl purée jabłkowe (preserved apple purée) · pt manteiga de maçã (preserved apple purée) · nl appeljam (preserved apple purée) · de Apfelkraut (preserved apple purée)