apple-butter

After walking a few blocks, the merchandise began to look similar, nothing grabbed my attention, until I came upon a Redneck-Zen bonsai booth wedged between a home-made apple-butter stand where a woman in old-fashioned attire churned butter and a photography exhibit of local waterfalls.

Truth at a Bonsai Booth Paula Ray 2011

Truth is, we had a glut of apples after an apple-tree collapse a few weeks' back, and where others would have slung them on the compost pile, dusted off their hands and moved on, I couldn't leave well alone so have been apple-butter/chutney/jelly-producing like crazy.

Anna at BootyVintage - A Dress A Day 2008

I don't want any apple-butter in crocks, or any chairs.

Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People' Anna Balmer Myers

Let me recommend tourists like ourselves to include in the former catalogue plenty of canned fruits, sardines, and apple-butter, -- in the latter, a jug of sirup for the inevitable camp slapjacks.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864 Various

There was always a glass dish of stewed prunes or seasonable fresh fruit; a plate piled high with thick slices of home-made bread; several dishes of spreadings, as the jellies, preserves or apple-butter of that community are called.

Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People' Anna Balmer Myers

Those starving and barefooted heroes would have thought it right if their beloved chief had fallen down and worshiped the makers of apple-butter!

Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death T. C. DeLeon

_Zwiebacks_ from our Berlin baker, and as many sticks of Italian bread from our Milanese; a dozen pounds of hard-tack, and a half-dozen of soda-crackers; an assortment of canned fruits, including, as absolute essentials, peaches and the Shaker apple-butter; a pot of anchovy-paste;

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Various

With a consciousness that she had borne a heavier pain in her life than most women, and ought to feel scourged and sad, she did cry out with such feeling sometimes, -- but with a keen, natural relish for apple-butter parings, or fair-days, or a neighbor dropping in to tea, or anything that would give the children and herself a chance to joke and laugh, and be like other people again.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 Various

The bread and apple-butter stage of our hero's career may seem to dim the lustre of the later porterhouse steak, but with all the glory of the halcyon days of yore it is to be noted that he rides in an automobile and not in an ox-cart, and prefers electricity to the good old oil-lamp.

Reveries of a Schoolmaster Francis B. Pearson

Apples and peaches were abundant, and everywhere the people had apple-butter for every meal; and occasionally we would come across a small-sized distillery, which we would at once start to doing duty.

"Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show Sam R. Watkins