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Definition of Apple butter
1. Noun. Thick dark spicy puree of apples.
Definition of Apple butter
1. Noun. Preserved apple purée with spices. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Apple Butter
Literary usage of Apple butter
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopedia of American Agriculture: A Popular Survey of Agricultural by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1907)
"The apple butter of Pennsylvania and Ohio is closely akin to the cider apple
sauce of New ... To make apple butter, sweet cider is boiled down one-half, ..."
2. The Ninth New York Heavy Artillery: A History of Its Organization, Services by Alfred Seelye Roe (1899)
"One party thus comes upon a quantity of honey and apple-butter. A hive of bees
has no terror for the adept forager. The eleven •wagons are brought in, ..."
3. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"1878 The vain expectancy of apple-butter, short-cake, and milk. ... 1880 The
delicious milk and elegant apple-butter of the glorious valley [of the ..."
4. Old Time Gardens, Newly Set Forth by Alice Morse Earle (1902)
"Photographed by TEM and GF White facing 208 Ancient Apple Picker, Apple Racks,
Apple Parers, apple butter Kettle, apple butter Paddle, apple butter Stirrer, ..."
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