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Apple Butter
(pictures at bottom)Mount Tabor Ruritan Club
annually produces an excellent batch of its locally famous apple butter.
Typically about 435 volunteer hours go into the making
nearly 300 gallons of brown gold.Each a truckload of apples is processed
during each of two weeks in late September and early October. Processing begins by coring and quartering all apples at the Slusser's Chapel picnic shelter.
The next day the quartered apples are transported to the
Montgomery
County Cannery in
Riner
Virginia where they are washed, steamed, strained, and then placed in the "kittle" to slow cook for several hours. Over 900 pounds of sugar
plus cinnamon, and in some batches nutmeg, are added to about 80 bushels of apples.With the help of over twenty volunteers the apple butter is one of Mount Tabor Ruritan's most successful fund-raisers.
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