By mid-September 1925, schools were back in full swing. Students often had to memorize poems. The September, 1925 issue of Farm Journal included a “Good Poem to Recite” about apple butter. There was a section in each issue of the magazine that focused on cooking, sewing, and other household topics. Apparently, the Farm Journal editors thought that teachers read the magazine, and might assign the poem to students to memorize and then recite. Some teachers lived with their families on farms; other teachers in rural areas boarded with farm families.
My mother introduced me to apple butter – delicious!
It’s a yummy spread!
So cute! I certainly had to memorize my share of poems!
I had a memorize a few poems. I never was very good at it.
What fun!
It’s a fun poem.
That was a fun poem. I can’t help but be grateful that I don’t have to memorize anything anymore. Nothing sticks long, anyway.
Amen to that sister!!
Memorized poems didn’t stick with me even when I was young.
I haven’t had apple butter in years! As I recall, it’s delicious.
It’s tasty.
I remember my Mama making apple butter and spreading it on a cracker to taste and to see if it spread the way she wanted for canning. I still love a treat of apple butter on crackers now and then.
I also remember she peeled all the apples and cored and used that to make apple jelly.
I love the apple butter but found the jelly pretty uninspiring.
When I make apple butter now I core the apples but do not peel them and throw them into the crock pot so I am not watching and stirring for what seemed like hours. Run it thru a Foley . I also do not make 30 pints at a time.
I love apple butter, but have never eaten it on crackers. I’ll have to give it a try. The Foley mill is makes things so much easier. Similarly to how you make apple butter, when I make applesauce I also just core the apples (but don’t peel), cook them a little, and then run through the Foley mill.
During my years in Texas, apple butter or apple jelly were seldom seen as it was not an area to grow apples.
I hadn’t realized until I read your comment that apple butter and apple jelly apparently are somewhat regional foods.
Apple butter was a staple in my family, all of whom were from Texas. If it was regional, our region did not get the message.
Good to know that apple butter was a staple in your Texan family. Maybe there’s variation in its popularity across different parts of the state.
I’m a big fan of apple butter – it’s what my fall dreams are made of!!!!!
It’s a delightful Fall food. (Actually, I enjoy it year-round.)
Fun poem you found, Sheryl, and so very seasonally appropriate.
I’m glad you enjoyed it.
Can’t say I’ve ever tasted apple butter, though it sounds delicious. The poem is so sweet. Just the sort of poem I’d have loved to put to music… ha hah
If you ever see apple butter for sale, you should give it a try. I think you’d like it. It is a fun poem!
I love apple butter…grew up on it! Great post.
Apple butter was a tradition in the area where I grew up.
Me, too. In PA. Many of my D.C. students never heard of it…
As someone who grew up in PA, we just always had apple butter. Maybe it was put of the Pennsylvania Dutch influence in the state. We sometimes stirred apple butter into cottage cheese, which I think is a Pennsylvania Dutch way of eating it.
I still make apple butter every year especially for my dad (94 yrs old). Definitely more a thing among the older folks here in central PA and easily available in the regional grocery chain (Weis). I prefer it on bread bud dad likes it with cottage cheese.
We must be thinking alike. I was working my way down new comments, and mentioned in one of my responses that in PA people sometimes stir apple butter into cottage cheese – and then I scrolled on down and saw your comment that also mentioned eating eating apple butter with cottage cheese. I’m with your dad. I really like to eat it that way.
It’s been a few years since I’ve made apple butter, but I got my recipe out this afternoon and am thinking about possibly making some this year. This post and responding to comments about apple butter have made me hungry for it.
Oh the hazards of being a food blogger !!!!
🙂
What a delightful poem! I rather like apple butter too, especially on warm homemade bread.
There’s nothing like warm homemade bread. Apple butter sounds delightful on it.