Cran-Apple Butter


Cran-Apple Butter

Couverts4 pints
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Ingredients

Instructions

  • In a large kettle, combine apples and cranberry juice.
  • Bring to a boil over medium heat and cook until soft.
  • Process apples in food mill or food processor until you have a smooth puree.
  • Back in the kettle, combine puree, sugar, and spices.
  • Bring to a boil over medium heat and boil gently, stirring often, until mixture is thickened and spreadable.
  • Ladle into clean jars and process for 10 minutes in boiling-water bath.
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Cuisine; Amish


Pear Butter With Pineapple


Pear Butter With Pineapple

Couverts4 pints
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Ingredients

Instructions

  • Place pears in a medium pan and cook over medium heat until soft.
  • Process in food mill or food processor.
  • In the medium pan, combine pear puree with sugar, pineapple, and lemon juice.
  • Boil over medium heat, stirring often, until thickened and spreadable.
  • Ladle into clean jars and process for 20 minutes in boiling-water bath
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Course; Butter / Fruit
Cuisine; Amish


Pepper Butter


Pepper Butter

Couverts7 pints
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Ingredients

Instructions

  • In a large pan, combine peppers, onions, vinegar, mustard, sugar, and salt.
  • Bring to a boil over medium heat and boil until peppers and onions are soft.
  • Dissolve Clear Jel in water.
  • Stir into boiling pepper mixture.
  • Continue boiling for 2 minutes.
  • Ladle into clean jars and process for 10 minutes in boiling-water bath.

Notes & Wine Advice

This butter has the addition of Clear Jel, as there is no natural pectin in peppers.
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Cuisine; Amish


Peach Butter


Peach Butter

Couverts4 pints
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Ingredients

Instructions

  • Combine peaches, water, and lemon juice in a medium pot.
  • Boil until soft.
  • Process in food mill or food processor until smooth.
  • Stir peach puree and sugar to combine, then bring to a boil over medium heat.
  • Boil gently, stirring often, until thickened and spreadable.
  • Ladle into clean jars and process for 10 minutes in boiling-water bath.
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Cuisine; Amish


Mock Apple Butter


Mock Apple Butter

Couverts6
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Ingredients

Instructions

  • Combine all ingredients in a large kettle
  • Bring to a boil over medium heat.
  • Reduce heat and simmer for 2 hours.
  • Ladle into clean jars and process for 10 minutes in boiling-water bath.
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Cuisine; Amish


Grape Butter


Grape Butter

Couverts4
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Ingredients

Instructions

  • Combine grapes and sugar in a medium saucepan.
  • Bring to a boil over medium heat.
  • Reduce heat and boil gently for 20โ€“25 minutes.
  • Strain and pour into clean jars.
  • Process for 10 minutes in boiling-water bath.

Notes & Wine Advice

This is an old-fashioned recipe. Concord grapes work great for this butter, but other dark grapes work fine too.
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Cuisine; Amish


Pear Butter


Pear Butter

Couverts4 pints
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Ingredients

  • 3 quarts pears peeled and cored
  • 1 quart sugar

Instructions

  • Boil pears until soft.
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  • Drain well.
  • Mash pears with potato masher.
  • Stir in sugar and bring to a boil over medium heat.
  • Boil until thickened, stirring often.
  • Ladle into clean jars and process for 10 minutes in boiling-water bath.
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Cuisine; Amish


Apricot Butter


Apricot Butter

Couverts4 pints
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Ingredients

Instructions

  • Combine apricots and water in a medium pot and boil until apricots are soft.
  • Puree the softened fruit, using a food mill or food processor.
  • In a large pot, combine remaining ingredients with 6 cups of fruit puree (if you have additional puree, it makes good baby food or can be frozen for later use).
  • Bring to a boil over medium heat.
  • Reduce heat and continue gently boiling, stirring often, until butter is thickened and spreadable.
  • Ladle hot butter into clean jars and process for 10 minutes in a boiling-water bath.
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Cuisine; Amish


Apple Cider Butter


Apple Cider Butter

Couverts4 pints
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Ingredients

Instructions

  • Combine apples and cider in a medium pot and boil gently until apples are soft.
  • Carefully ladle hot apples into food mill and process.
  • Add 12 cups of puree and the remaining ingredients to a medium stainless steel or heavy kettle. (If you have additional puree, enjoy as applesauce! )
  • Bring to a boil over medium heat, reduce heat, and stir often, especially when butter begins to thicken.
  • When butter is thick and spreadable, ladle into clean jars and process for 10 minutes in boiling-water bath.
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Cuisine; Amish


Hand-Rolled Butter


Hand-Rolled Butter

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Ingredients

Instructions

  • Thoroughly clean the inside of your butter churn with soap and hot water.
  • Pour cream into the churn, being sure not to fill the churn more than โ…” full.
  • Crank briskly until the cream separates into buttermilk and butter.
  • It will likely take about 20 minutes, but may take longer if youโ€™re making a bigger batch.
  • Pour off the buttermilk, reserving it for baking.
  • Dump butter into a bowl and pour cold fresh water over it.
  • Use a wooden spoon to stir the butter in the water.
  • Drain off the water and repeat.
  • The goal is to remove as much of the buttermilk as possible so that only the actual butter remains.
  • Add salt to taste.
  • Place a sheet of parchment paper on a counter or other hard surface.
  • Scoop the butter onto the paper in an oblong shape.
  • Fold the paper over the butter and then use the edge of a cookie sheet or another long straight item to gently push the butter into a neat log shape.
  • Twist or tape the ends of the parchment paper to close.
  • Store in the refrigerator.

Notes & Wine Advice

Amish butter is known for its rich, creamy flavor, which is largely thanks to how the cows are raised. If you canโ€™t get cream straight from an Amish dairy farm, try to find a source where the cows are pasture raised, meaning theyโ€™re at least mostly grass-fed and are free to move around outside their stalls. Fresh cream from a good source will make the difference in your butterโ€™s flavor.
Jar churns allow you to slowly churn the butter by cranking the handle manually for about twenty minutes. Another method is to put a marble in a mason jar and shake the jar until the cream separates into butter (just be careful not to shake so hard that the marble breaks the jar).
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Cuisine; Amish