what to do with apple butter...

[lauren75]

A friend gave me a jar of it & I would like some ideas for recipes other than just spreading it on a piece of bread...

[prasantrin]

There are a few recipes from Dorie Greenspan's latest book that use apple butter. I can't remember which ones off-hand, but the couple I've tried (that use apple butter) were very good. (All the recipes I've tried from that book have been very good.)

[Batard]

Most of the recipes I've seen are all for cookies and cakes. But I'll bet it would be good ingredient for making a pork glaze, or sauce for ribs. If I had some I would experiment around that way. l

[Batard]

I started Goggling and found some good examples of savory dishes using apples butter for a sauce or glaze:

Cedar Plank Braided Salmon With Apple Butter Sauce

http://www.recipezaar.com/102771

Grilled Pork Tenderloin with Apple Butter Glaze

http://www.southernoregonsauce.com/recipe-...utter-glaze.htm

[Shelby]

I actually just made two loaves of sour cream banana bread (pictures on the sweets thread) and used about a cup of apple butter in the batter. Not a real strong taste, but I can definitely tell that it's in there.

[dockhl]

Long ago I spent some time at Bucknell University that is in the heart of Amish country. One of my favorite Amish foods was simply apple butter spread on homemade white bread with schmierkase, which is a type of dry curd cottage cheese. A delicious breakfast

[Malkavian]

I've used it to great success as a glaze for smoked or grilled salmon

[heidih]

I've used it to great success as a glaze for smoked or grilled salmon

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Yup- I treat it like any marmalade or jam in my larder and use it whenever a bit of sweetness is called for. Examples are glazes, marinades, salad dressings, and dipping sauces. You add sweetness with the bonus of an additional flavor layer.

[petite tête de chou]

Perhaps an apple butter and vanilla ice-cream milkshake?

Edited February 24, 2008 by petite tête de chou (log)

[prasantrin]

Someone once offered me a recipe for tamarind chutney that included apple butter, but she never came through. It was to be used with samosas.

[Lilija]

It makes a great relish for pork, instead of the traditional applesauce. I like it mixed with shredded fresh ginger, or a spoonful of horseradish stirred in, alongside roasted pork, or ham.

[andiesenji]

I often add some grated ginger to it and cook it a bit more so the ginger flavor is infused into the apple butter.

I use it for filling between thin layers of spice cake. That is, I bake spice cake in regular pans and slice each layer horizontally into three thin layers.

This makes for a very nice moist confection-like cake, especially when coated with burnt-sugar frosting.

[K8memphis]

A friend gave me a jar of it & I would like some ideas for recipes other than just spreading it on a piece of bread...

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Spread it on peanut butter cookies.

[ned]

Pork. Apple butter with pork.

[teagal]

Pork definitely pork!

Also mixed with softened vanilla ice cream and put in a graham cracker crust, freeze. Before serving top with caramel sauce. Easy dessert and really good.

[emilyr]

I make a bbq sauce with apple butter I get from an Amish market (when I don't eat a whole jar with fresh bread !) by pureeing a sweet yellow onion and then simmering it with apple butter, a bit of molasses, apple cider vinegar and ancho chile powder. Sometimes tomato paste, if I remeber. Once, I ran out of stove room and simmered it on the grill with the pork I was cooking, and it was lovely and smokey. It's great with pork, of course, but also good with grilled chicken and I have even dollopped it on a steak.

[lauren75]

Thanks for all of the tips. I went with pork and it worked out great!