apple butter

Noun

apple butter (countable and uncountable, plural apple butters)

1. Preserved apple purée with spices.
   • DOMESTIC LIFE IN AMERICA.
     (In a Letter from a Correspondent at Cincinnati.)
     This town is far superior to our late place of sojourn, Pittsburgh, being spacious and clean, with handsome houses and wood for fuel. Pittsburgh, on the contrary, is dirty and confined, abounding in iron works burning coal...1832 May 26, “Domestic Life in America”, in The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, number 548, page 323
   • APPLE BUTTER SANDWICH: On thin slices of lightly buttered white bread, spread apple butter. Sprinkle chopped candied orange peel, cover with another slice of bread.1909, Eva Greene Fuller, The Up-To-Date Sandwich Book: 400 Ways to Make a Sandwich, page 142