"Sqwertz" > wrote in message
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> On Fri, 30 Jun 2017 14:06:10 -0400, Gary wrote:
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>> You've never heard of apple butter, so common in usa grocery stores
>> forever. I haven't bought any in 100 years but I do remember liking it.
>> Spread on buttered toast just like you would do with jam or jelly.
>>
>> It's pretty good but nothing to run right out to try.
>
> Apple bButter is mostly a Eastern AMISH thang. Also along those same
> lines are spiced apple rings. Skin-on cored apple rings in a
> artificially red, sugary, clove-allspice-cinnamon brine. I haven't
> had either in probably 36 years. I would taste them again for
> nostalgia's sake, but not buy them.

My dad and I loved spiced apples. Nobody else in the family did though. So
we had them perhaps once or twice a year. Hard to find here now and too
carby for me but as a kid, I found a recipe for them. The end result was not
quite the same as the store bought ones as I couldn't achieve that deep
color but they tasted fine.