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Visiting family in rural Tennessee, making apple butter in a century old brass kettle over a wood fire. The canning bit comes later.  
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Oct 30, 2021 16:31
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HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:Bet that tastes amazing. It depends on how much micromanaging my one cousin (er, 1st cousin once removed I think?) does. He is diabetic, so he protests if we add "too much" sugar, and he also does this weird poo poo with the cinnamon where he takes whole cinnamon sticks and crushes them into little pieces and puts them in. Cinnamon doesn't soften at all, so you end up with these sharp chunks. Nobody knows why he does it, but he brooks no argument. So it ends up being more of a social activity and a chance to see family I rarely get to spend time with, and the actual apple butter is secondary. But sometimes it turns out well! E: Jarring time! 
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Oct 30, 2021 17:05
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It's that time of year again! Fresh, locally sourced apples, ready to go for homemade apple butter! I think I've posted a few pics in prior years, but we're doing it again!   
Annath fucked around with this message at 16:01 on Oct 29, 2022 |
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Oct 29, 2022 15:14
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On my way to Old Appalachia (well, technically west of the mountains, but just as rural) for the yearly apple butter event. Looking at about 7 bushels of apples, aiming for 1.5 gallons per bushel. Maybe this year we can convince my great uncle not to ruin it with his absurd policy on cinnamon. He takes whole cinnamon sticks, smashes them with a hammer into chunks, and tosses them into the vat. He also refuses to put enough sugar in, insisting that "the apples' natural sugar is plenty", which results in way less caramelization, so the apple butter is basically somewhat darker applesauce lmao. But it's more about visiting the last bit of family I have left out there anyway.
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Oct 26, 2023 15:40
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Soul Dentist posted:Jammin' - My great uncle's absurd cinnamon policy 
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