Baumans Continue Apple Butter Heritage
<9UsUp and chili sauce about 30-40
ye&s ago. They offer both salt and
no-salt varieties.
Baumans try to add a new or
combination fruit butter cvciy
year. Some of the fruit butter fla
vors include the following: apple,
apricot, peach, pear, plum,
blueberry, cherry, honey peach,
strawberry, strawberry-raspberry,
strawberry rhubarb, pumpkin, and
tomato.
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mans custom press apples for other
companies and individuals. For
several years Baumans offer
pasteurized and non-pasteutized
cider. This year, they started
pasteurizing all the cider they sell.
Kathy explained that the cider is
cooled rapidly after the pasteuriz
ing process to retain the cider
flavor.
Fruit butters do not contain but
ler. Instead the name is derived
because it is most often used in
{dace of butter on bread. Fruit but
ters contain no preservatives or
additives—just the natural good
ness of in-season produce and
speed. But sugar and no-added
sugar varieties are available. Even
with sugar added, fruit butters con
tain less sugar than jams or jellies.
The Baumans began malting
Kathy check* the apple butter cookers, covered with lids
that Harvey’s grandfather had patented In 1906.
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Also available are dder apple
sauce, cranberry applesauce, and
strawberry applesauce.
The Baumans sell about half of
the product under their own label.
The remainder is marketed for pri
vate labels.
“We have no sales people. This
has grown sort of topsy-turvy,
mostly by people who hear about
us and call up,” Kathy said.
Don’t put
Put
They ship both wholesale and
retail to other slates, even as far
away as California, which is an
orchard-growing area.
“Someone gave a sample of our
fruit butter to a grower, and now
they order our fruit butters to sell,”
Kathy said.
The offals of the apples arc
picked up by local fanners who
feed it to their cattle.
From February through July,
work flow slows down a bit. This
gives Kathy time to catch up with
house-cleaning and with weekly
voluteering at her children’s
school. Several times during the
year, the Baumans demonstrate
apple butter making at folk and
historical festivals. They often
dress in period costumes typical of
1800 s.
“We sort have our own niche,"
Harvey said of the fruit butters. “A
lot of health food stores cany our
product because it’s all natural
with no additives."
Some supermarkets also cany
the product
According to tradition,
Schwenkfolder churches, mostly
in the Lehigh Valley, still comme
morate the arrival of their anccs
tors’s escape from religious perse
cution by serving a meal of apple
butter and bread.
Gift boxes featuring different
varieties of the fruit butters are
available at the store or by mailor
der. Bauman’s package gift boxes
and sell complimentary items such
as pancake mix from nearby Great
Valley Mills.
Bauman’s Apple Butter Factory
is located in the center of Sassa
mansville along Hoffmansvillc
Road. From RL 100, turn at Gross
Equipment Company on Hof
fmans villc Road. Travel east
3Vi miles. Factory is on the right
Hours in season (August
through January) ate are Mon.-Fri.
8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sat - 8 a.m. to 5
it off.
it on.
The 1892 cider press is still used, but most of the wooden
pieces have been replaced with stainless steel and metal
parts.
p.m. The store is closed Sundays.
In off season (February through
July) the store is open Tuesday and
Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and
by appointment.
For mote information, call (610)
754-7251.
Snack Ideas
Some people like to eat fruit but
ters from the jar. Some other favo
rites include the following:
* Spead on toast, muffins, and
bagels with cream cheese
• Add to oatmeal or cream of
wheat, cottage cheese, yogurt,
pancakes, waffles, and ice cream.
• Use as a glaze for ham or
chicken.
• Substitute fruit butter of your
choice for vegetable oil in recipes
for baked goods.
• Use as a filling in thumbprint
cookies
•Mix fruit butter of your choice
with cream cheese to spread on
muffins, toast, bagels, and bread.
• Try strawberry butter in your
milk and cereal.
Here are some recipes for using
fruit butters. Look for more recipes
on the website:
www.baumanfamily.com
NO-SUGAR
BANANA SPLIT
Cut 1 small banana into slices
Add cottage cheese
Top with no-sugar strawberry
butter or fruit butter of your
choice.
Makes a great low-calorie lunch
or dessert.
PUMPKIN PANCAKES
2 cups pancake mix
1 cup milk
'/: cup pumpkin butter
Combine ingredients and fry in
skillet until browned.
For richer, thicker pancakes,
add 1 egg and 2 tablespoons oil.
Bauman’s
PUMPKIN YOGURT
'/> cup plain yogurt
2 tablespoons pumpkin blitter
Combine ingredients. Substitute
fruit butter of your choice for other
yogurt flavors.
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