2 Pretty Good Recipes To Share. All Incorporate Apple Butter As An Ingredient.

I found these 2-apple butter related recipes I thought I would share with you. The meatloaf recipe I do not use turkey or pork in, and I scale down the size of the recipe. It is worth trying though. The Apple Butter Pie is far superior if comparing to pumpkin pie in my opinion. The accompanying whipped cream will last a few days in your refrigerator (at least mine did) and maybe try adding it to a cup of coffee in place of a creamer. I have been using pumpkin pie seasoning in a cup of brewed Twinings Christmas Tea; it gives it an added spice flavor.

I use a quality beef, and I also add fresh mushroom slices. I do not use ground sage, but I do chop up fresh parsley from my garden and add to the meatloaf mixture. If I have some of my garden green peppers or a red pepper, I will chop some of that and add to the mixture also.

I think I made the pie because I was intrigued with a recipe calling for a frozen deep dish pie crust. In my opinion I have found Marie Callendar brand to work pretty good with this recipe as the 8" deep pie crust. You can purchase them in the freezer section of your grocery store. When comparing with other brands it seemed to be that they had more pie crust ingredients that didn't look too much with odd ingredients if that makes sense. Then I had a small glass pie plate as the size of a mini pie, so I also purchased in the freezer section @ Trader Joes their frozen pie crust rolled dough, and I then made a smaller pie with the extra left-over filling since I only had an 8" as opposed to a 9" deep dish pie crust. Sometimes it works out okay when you adapt a recipe, do you agree.

I told one of my Amish acquaintances about these 2 recipes (the one that makes fried pies and homemade candy) and so I printed the recipe to give to them the next trip I make there to visit. The meatloaf recipe is from the TN Farm Bureau recipes. The pie recipe is from "Southern Living" magazine. Happy apple butter baking/cooking to you. I also found instructions on how to freeze the baked pie and how to thaw it out properly to serve it.