Here are two things you may not know about fruit butters: 1) they don’t actually contain any butter and 2) they’re awfully good with gin. Or bourbon. Or champagne. I haven’t always possessed such encyclopedic knowledge of fruit butters. As I child I wrinkled my nose at the thought of apples mixed with butter and only later learned that fruit butters are so named because they’re silky and smooth and spreadable – like butter.
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