See first quotation.
1832. Apple-butter … is made by stewing apples in new cider, after it has been boiled down to one-third of its bulk.—A Cincinnati Correspondent, The Mirror, Lond., May 26.
1878. The vain expectancy of apple-butter, short-cake, and milk.—‘Southern Hist. Soc. Papers,’ vi. 3 (Richmond, Va.).
1880. The delicious milk and elegant apple-butter of the glorious valley [of the Shenandoah].—Id., ix. 188.
