Comments on: What can I do with apple butter?

Question: What can I do with apple butter?

Braeog — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 16:56:12 -0800

I have apple butter. Now what? I was given two jars of apple butter over the holidays. Is there anything I can do with it besides spread it on toast or peanut butter sandwiches?

By: slow graffiti

slow graffiti — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 17:01:01 -0800

http://www.bigoven.com/19978_AppleButterSteak_recipe.html

By: jrossi4r

jrossi4r — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 17:03:56 -0800

Eat it the PA Dutch way--mixed with some cottage cheese. Yum.

By: dersins

dersins — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 17:04:25 -0800

Make a vinaigrette with apple butter, walnut oil, red wine vinegar, salt and pepper. Use to dress a salad of endive, radicchio or similar. Top with candied walnuts or pecans and small pieces of brie.

By: selfmedicating

selfmedicating — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 17:08:46 -0800

We put it on cornbread too.

By: thinkingwoman

thinkingwoman — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 17:11:31 -0800

mix with white wine and dijon mustard for a delicious glaze for pork or chicken.

By: Deathalicious

Deathalicious — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 17:28:01 -0800

I like it on scrambled eggs.

By: Rosie M. Banks

Rosie M. Banks — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 17:29:56 -0800

I think it's yummy on (good quality) vanilla ice cream.

By: stefnet

stefnet — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 17:30:07 -0800

This Chowhound thread had a number of good ideas (including one from me...).

By: pseudostrabismus

pseudostrabismus — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 17:45:48 -0800

I like apple butter with brie- on crackers, toasts, or maybe even just spread on baked brie fresh from the oven. I think its sweetness works really well with salty stuff. Maybe with bacon in a sandwich?

By: ethel

ethel — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 17:46:16 -0800

I really like it swirled in some vanilla yogurt (this also works for pumpkin butter).

By: bitter-girl.com

bitter-girl.com — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 17:49:36 -0800

Seconding the pork (apples of any kind are TASTY with pork).

If you're not superduper into apples, why not make a mixed-fruit cobbler? Cut up another fruit you do like a lot (pears, berries, etc), mix in some apple butter and put it in a pan. Now, throw a stick of butter into your processor with sugar until it's fine crumbs. Add in flour til the crumbs just sorta stick together as big, spaetzle-y crumbs. Sprinkle over the top of the fruit mixture and bake at 375 F until the top is all crispy and browning and the fruit is cooked. Tasty.

By: jedicus

jedicus — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 17:49:41 -0800

It's great as a filling for a jelly roll.

By: ottereroticist

ottereroticist — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 18:08:14 -0800

Roast turkey or chicken sandwich. Good white bread, mayo on one side, apple butter (or chutney) on the other. Lots of salt. Got to be up in my top ten favorite things to eat.

By: dws

dws — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 18:11:24 -0800

Spoon it over vanilla ice cream.

By: gingerbeer

gingerbeer — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 18:16:23 -0800

In addition to some of the things already mentioned, I've used it as a base layer in a fruit tart (spread on bottom of tart crust, cover with sliced fruit, etc.). It's also really good on biscuits. My mom gives me a jar most years, so I've been through a few options. Eating it with cottage cheese is still my fave.

By: beckish

beckish — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 18:34:57 -0800

pancakes!!!

By: Sweetie Darling

Sweetie Darling — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 18:50:05 -0800

Gang, I don't know the answer but hope someone else will: could OP freeze one of the jars? How do fruit butters do if frozen and thawed?

By: slavlin

slavlin — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 18:55:39 -0800

I like apple butter as a dip for cinnamon graham crackers.

By: flummox

flummox — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 19:05:30 -0800

On latkes

By: Steven C. Den Beste

Steven C. Den Beste — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 19:13:58 -0800

You shouldn't need to freeze them. If they're properly canned, they should keep until opened. Then refrigeration is all that is needed.

Freezing would be actively bad because expansion would break the bottles.

By: HotPatatta

HotPatatta — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 19:20:14 -0800

Is it real apple butter (i.e. mostly butter with some apple), or the stuff they now call apple butter but is more like spiced applesauce?

By: HotPatatta

HotPatatta — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 19:21:01 -0800

Because if it's the kind that is mostly butter, you can bake and cook with it. That's what I do when I want to infuse a little extra flavor into muffins, biscuits, etc.

By: Melinika

Melinika — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 19:30:20 -0800

I spread it in a little bowl over some goat cheese and dip pretzels into it.

By: joshers13

joshers13 — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 19:55:01 -0800

HotPatatta, I'm pretty sure what everyone else knows as "real apple butter" is the spiced applesauce you refer too. I guess there's no other word for butter with apples in it, though, is there?

By: DevilsAdvocate

DevilsAdvocate — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 20:36:40 -0800

Fried biscuits with apple butter is a southern Indiana specialty. Don't be fool by the name fried biscuits - these aren't just ordinary buttermilk biscuits or the like thrown in a fryer. These are sweeter, really closer to beignets than to ordinary biscuits in both flavor and texture, although somewhat less sweet than beignets, I'd say. They reach their pinnacle at the Nashville House Restaurant in Nashville, IN.

And what joshers13 said about the "spiced applesauce" being the real apple butter. It's been called that for decades if not centuries.

By: headspace

headspace — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 21:11:50 -0800

However, you can just deep fry canned biscuits (NOT the layered kind, the tiny kind,) and eat them with the apple butter, which is what Hoosiers do when we're desperate.

By: cowbellemoo

cowbellemoo — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 21:13:45 -0800

Nthing the pork condiment. I once put it on a ham sandwich and was very pleased.

By: Lynsey

Lynsey — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 22:29:54 -0800

Pork chops, waffles, cottage cheese, cheddar cheese 'n' crackers, oh my goodness, lucky you!

By: Dreama

Dreama — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 05:41:12 -0800

Add it to a grilled cheese sandwich. It's especially good with a sharp cheddar on rye bread. (Mind you, any combination of flavorful bread + good cheese + fruit spread makes a primo grilled cheese.)

Also: swirl some into your morning oatmeal or farina cereal. Delicious.

By: LN

LN — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 08:31:28 -0800

I roasted a bone-in ham on Boxing Day. I spread the entire thing with apple butter, poured a can of hard cider into the roasting pan, added some quartered onions, a few peppercorns and a bay leaf. Roast till done. Yum!

By: LakesideOrion

LakesideOrion — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 09:06:07 -0800

I add a nice scoop of apple butter and a good squirt of sriracha sauce (to taste) to a can of regular canned baked beans. The cinnamon sweetness of the apple butter and the complex heat of the hot sauce make an awesome side dish. Serve with garlic smashed potatoes, a plate of BBQ, cherry pie with ice cream and a nice big beer.

Transcendent.

By: mahamandarava

mahamandarava — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 13:49:06 -0800

You could make an apple stack cake.

By: meggan

meggan — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:28:22 -0800

Seconding pancakes. Use it like you would jam. I put butter and then apple butter on my pancakes and they are DELICIOUS.