Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By Katie Workman, The Associated Press For me, it’s just not fall unless there is at least one apple picking outing. It’s been a family tradition since I was ...

Apple butter is essentially caramelized apple sauce — a fruit purée that slow-cooks with water or cider until the apple’s natural sugars turn a dark, toasty brown. The mixture is augmented with baking ...

To be honest, apple butter and I are not friends. But the apple trees are really producing this year and I'm surrounded by fruit and the persistent nagging feeling that I should revisit apple butter.

Dear SOS: I enjoyed Amy Scattergood’s cookie article (“Cookie of the Year,” Dec. 13) and am anxious to try out the Top 10 cookies. However, I found the website had listed only eight. Would you send me ...

This is the second in a four-part series on preserving fruit at home called “L.A. in a Jar.” Cooking columnist Ben Mims follows up stone fruit jam with his take on autumnal apple butter. Before there ...

For me, it’s just not fall unless there is at least one apple picking outing. It’s been a family tradition since I was little — even though I actually fell out of an apple tree and broke my leg when I ...