Definition of "apple butter" [apple butter]

• Preserved apple purée with spices. (noun)

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• "She would have to drive into O’Hearn and do a little food shopping before lunch, she thought as she dribbled some of Hope’s delicious apple butter onto first one, then the other biscuit, or lunch would be a repeat of breakfast."
• "One day they built a fire in the yard and made a black kettle of apple butter so big that when they stood over it and stirred the apple mash with spurtles, the scene put Ada in mind of the witches in Macbeth working at their brew."
• "The apple butter had come out thick, the color of old harness from spice and brown sugar, and they sealed enough of it in crocks to eat on for a year."