Over the weekend we traveled to Nashville, Ill., for our annual apple butter making day with family. My cousins, Bob and Helen Poirot, are the host family. We got off easy though, as they had all the ...

For me, it’s just not fall unless there is at least one apple picking outing. It’s been a family tradition since I was little — even though I actually fell out of an apple tree and broke my leg when I ...

This apple butter takes more than 10 hours to cook but requires little attention In series two of With Love, Meghan (the Duchess of Sussex’s Netflix show), she makes a batch of apple butter using her ...

When Vera Zackuse of Marysville asked if anyone could share a recipe for oven-baked apple butter, three readers immediately fired off their favorite versions of this classic old-timer. Bothell cook ...

Apples, the star ingredient in today’s recipe, are the largest and most valuable fruit crop in Michigan. According to the Michigan Apple Committee, more than a billion pounds of apples were harvested ...

Apple butter is essentially caramelized apple sauce — a fruit purée that slow-cooks with water or cider until the apple’s natural sugars turn a dark, toasty brown. The mixture is augmented with baking ...

When you hear the name Smucker’s, you probably think of the grape jelly, strawberry preserves, people being 100-years-old or their famous tagline “with a name like Smucker’s, it’s got to be good.” The ...