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Old-fashioned Apple Butter Legacy Foods is stirring things up in Clay County.
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Your apples Apple butter makers don’t all agree on what kind of apples make for the best butter. Each has strong opinions about specific varieties, and each apple makes its own unique kind of butter. What they can agree on is that West Virginia orchards grow great apples—many of them in the northeastern part of the state. Here are a few of the places where butter makers get their bushels.
Butler’s FarmMarket MARTINSBURG
JeffersonOrchards KEARNEYSVILLE
Orr’s FarmMarket MARTINSBURG
RellimOrchard KEARNEYSVILLE
Legacy Foods in Clay County makes apple butter the old-fashioned way: in a copper kettle, over an open flame, in small batches of 50 gallons or less at a time, and with a recipe that dates back more than 200 years. The ingredients are simple, as nature intended, picking up on the sweetness of only one variety of apple—the Golden Delicious. The process takes about 12 hours from start to finish, with each batch carefully hand-crafted to bring out the butter’ s full flavor. If you ’ve never tried a jar of Legacy Foods’ award winning apple butter, treat yourself today and pick up one of these best- selling varieties at legacyfoodswv.com. ✓ CINNAMON APPLE BUTTER combines the original recipe with natural cinnamon flavoring. $7 ✓ CLOVE APPLE BUTTER combines the original recipe with the old-fashioned flavor of cloves. $7 ✓ GINGER APPLE BUTTER adds slices of crystallized ginger into each jar that steep while the hot butter cools down. $7 ✓ NO SUGAR ADDED APPLE BUTTER utilizes only apples and spices without any added sugar or other artificial sweeteners. $7
Reddington’s FarmandOrchard HARPERS FERRY
Ruggles Orchard LEVELS
Shanholtz Orchards ROMNEY
SpringHill Orchards MARTINSBURG
Spring Valley FarmandOrchard ROMNEY
WarmSpringOrchard CHARLES TOWN
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