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Apple butter

Here is another recipe from my grandma’s favorite cookbook, “The Lilly Wallace New American Cookbook”. For those of you who are too young to remember apple butter, there is no butter in apple butter. It is, instead, like apple sauce reduced to the constancy and sweetness of jam.  My grandma flavored hers with warm spices, […]

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Here is another recipe from my grandma’s favorite cookbook, “The Lilly Wallace New American Cookbook”. For those of you who are too young to remember apple butter, there is no butter in apple butter. It is, instead, like apple sauce reduced to the constancy and sweetness of jam.  My grandma flavored hers with warm spices,

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Apple Chutney

In 2018, we planted a little apple tree in a sunny SE corner of our yard.  These days, it has grown to important size and yields a lot more lovely eating apples than we can possibly eat.  So after having given bags to all our friends and neighbors, and eaten apples everyday for a month,

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In 2018, we planted a little apple tree in a sunny SE corner of our yard.  These days, it has grown to important size and yields a lot more lovely eating apples than we can possibly eat.  So after having given bags to all our friends and neighbors, and eaten apples everyday for a month,

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Green figs from the garden!

The nice surprise of the summer:  our fig tree has produced a lot of lovely, sweet green figs! We have always had a little fig tree, but in the past, it has never yielded much because it was basically buried by bamboo growing into our yard from the neighbors.  This spring, I got ambitious and

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The nice surprise of the summer:  our fig tree has produced a lot of lovely, sweet green figs! We have always had a little fig tree, but in the past, it has never yielded much because it was basically buried by bamboo growing into our yard from the neighbors.  This spring, I got ambitious and

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Green Fig Jam

Fantastic on bread but also great with hard sheep’s milk cheeses, fig jam is an easy introduction to jam making.  This recipe uses 6 pounds of figs only because that is the amount I had on hand.  Scale as needed.  Check out this post for more details about the jam making process. GREEN FIG JAM

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Fantastic on bread but also great with hard sheep’s milk cheeses, fig jam is an easy introduction to jam making.  This recipe uses 6 pounds of figs only because that is the amount I had on hand.  Scale as needed.  Check out this post for more details about the jam making process. GREEN FIG JAM

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