| When we used to order Chinese, everyone had their order: Mom wanted General Tso’s (and usually so did my brother), Dad and I would want chicken and broccoli, my sister and I would want chicken fried rice. But every so often, we threw in an order of sweet and sour chicken, or sweet and sour pork, to mix things up. I always loved sweet and sour sauce, and was gratified to find out it didn’t even need to be modified to be gluten-free; it was just a question of adjusting the ingredients until I had the balance of sweet and sour I liked best. |  |
No, this does not contain any actual butter! I believe the name comes from the fact that you can spread it on toast just like butter–buttering with apples, as it were :-). More accurately, it is somewhere between apple sauce and jam or marmalade; you use it like jam (up to and including in a PB&J, if you like the flavors that way!), but it’s made of very very cooked apples, like applesauce. As a matter of fact, I will mark where you can stop in this recipe and have wonderfully tasty homemade applesauce.
