apple butter

apples stewed to a paste, spiced, sometimes sweetened, and served as a spread or condiment.

Origin of apple butter

An Americanism dating back to 1765–75

There's strychnia for example, as purely vegetable in its origin as apple-butter itself is.

Camp Venture |George Cary Eggleston
He choked a little and filled his hand with the apple-butter he was spreading on his cold biscuit.

In a Little Town |Rupert Hughes
Well, you old hoosier, you, can you gimme some apple-butter?

Tramping with Tramps |Josiah Flynt
The supernumeraries dispense the coffee, bread, apple-butter, and sweetnin'.

Our campaign around Gettysburg |John Lockwood

Valuable for stock and for apple-butter; Season, October to January.

American Pomology |J. A. Warder

apple butter

a jam made from stewed spiced apples