Apple butter

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Apple butter
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Apple butter on a slice of bread
Place of origin Belgium and the Netherlands
Main ingredient(s) Apples, cider or water
Making 'black butter' in Jersey




The product contains no actual dairy butter; the term "butter" refers only to the thick, soft butter-like consistency, and apple butter's use as a spread for breads. Typically seasoned with cinnamon, clove, and other spices, apple butter is usually spread on bread, used as a side dish, an ingredient in baked goods, or as a condiment. Apple butter is also used on a sandwich to add an interesting flavor, but is not as commonly used as in historical times.



In Europe, apple butter is commonly used in the Netherlands (known as appelstroop (apple syrup) and in Germany (known as Apfelkraut (apple kraut) and frequently eaten on bread with (or without) thinly sliced cheese and with Sauerbraten. A sweeter version, made using pears, as well as apples, is more popular in Belgium, where it is known as Liège syrup (sirop de Liège/Luikse siroop). Other than in Benelux and the Rhineland, apple syrup is a minority taste in Western Europe (in Germany, outside of the Rhineland, it is generally sold in health food shops), and a similar food is produced in francophone Switzerland, where it is known as vin cuit.

Russian Пови́дло (from Czech povidla or Polish powidła or powidło) prepared by the reduction of fruit puree with some sugar and sometimes spices. The final product should contain no more than 34% of moisture and about 60% of sugar. The most popular one is made from apples, but povidlo is also made from apricots, cherries, prunes, pears, and cranberries.,[3][4]

In Jersey, in the Channel Islands, apple butter is known as "black butter" or lé nièr beurre and includes liquorice as an ingredient.

Apple butter can be used as a fat substitute in reduced-fat or fat-free cooking, as well as vegan recipes.[5][6][7]



Apple Butter Makin' Days has been held on the courthouse square in Mount Vernon, Missouri, each October since 1967.[8] Kimmswick, Missouri,[9] and Berkeley Springs, West Virginia,[10] each have an annual apple butter festival, as well. Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page). on the last Saturday in September.

Fenner Nature Center[11] in Lansing, MI, also has an annual Apple Butter Festival on the third weekend of October.



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