Cooking with Ian! Vegan Bread Pudding!

[sammimitsu]

What the hell is apple butter?

[dandelion45]

Apple butter is a highly concentrated form of apple sauce, produced by long, slow cooking of apples with cider or water to a point where the sugar in the apples caramelizes, turning the apple butter a deep brown.

sorry not butter but smucker do have them

[sammimitsu]

Dandelion45, thank you. It sounds delicious, and I've often seen it in books on macrobiotic cooking by Michio Kushi, but never with a recipe. We don't have any smuckers in the UK, so I will try to make some but if you know of a recipe, that would be great. Thanks again :)

[ianthevedge]

Actually, I would not suggest using Smuckers brand it contains High Fructose Corn Syrup, I use A&J, it contains no added sweeteners and is the best tasting. I order it my local health food store. I also have found a sweet patato butter I use to sweeten my pumpkin pie, however that is much harder to find.

[porolita22]

this is so awesome, I'll try it :-P

[haydegger]

Whats a substitute for apple butter? I can't get it here around theese parts.

Vegan powah! :D

[ianthevedge]

100% pure maple syrup. Note: American bread pudding is much thicker than European bread pudding, so if it doesn't fit your needs add about a quarter cup of soya milk, use extra silken tofu, or switch to almond or hazelnut milk.

[haydegger]

I've never even tried bread pudding :D

Thanks for advice.

I have to go to sleep now, it's 3 am here in Europe

[sammimitsu]

Please can you explain what apple butter is, and how it's made? We don't have it in England.

[sammimitsu]

Thank you for the information. We don't have smuckers either in the UK, whatever they are. We have snickers. I have never made apple butter and it sounds very difficult. It gets mentioned a lot in macrobiotic cooking but they never include a recipe

[TruKirby]

Fantastic. Definitely something for the wife to make for us when we're at home.