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apple butter

noun

  1. apples stewed to a paste, spiced, sometimes sweetened, and served as a spread or condiment.


apple butter

noun

  1. a jam made from stewed spiced apples
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of apple butter1

An Americanism dating back to 1765–75
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Example Sentences

Apple and pear butter may be made by following the directions for apple butter with cider but omitting the cider.

Valuable for stock and for apple-butter; Season, October to January.

Combine apple butter, beaten eggs, sugar, cornstarch and cinnamon and mix well.

I sell my culls to hundreds of farmers in this and adjoining counties for canning, apple-butter, etc.

Three Sundays ago he turned around before he went out and said, 'Do you like apple-butter?'

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