Word: stirs
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Course nearly all o' us wood trade our false teeth an hot water bottles fer some o' th' good old apple butter agin. An if yer kin find some feller thet'll guarantee ter make as good apple butter as we use ter stir, all he's got ter do is tell us about it in TIME (an he woodn't need a big ad), and his fortune's made. Fer most all o' us wood be reglar customers...
...make it a stag organization Clem, or you would shut me out. I'm in my 82nd year and I stirred apple butter every Fall for years in the late 60s-in my kid days I didn't stir it in the back yard though. There was a house built over the spring on my father's farm in Pennsylvania. Downstairs was where the springwater ran through a big trough, and there was kept the milk "crocks," butter jars, etc. In that room, we churned the butter in a good old dasher churn...
...Hope. I rember one time when Henry was a little kodger his ma and him come over to make us a visit. His Aunt Sarah an me was stirrin Apple Butter out back of the kitchen wen they drove up. Henry jumped out an come over to help me stir. Somethin caught his interest an he turned round and afore you could say jackrobinson he backed up and sot right down in the kittle. Well twant bad enough to burn him much but for few days he had to eat his meals standin up. An' the accident didn...
...still got our old copper kittle an she's 30 gallons if she's a spoon-full. Gittin bout time to bring her out now and bout the time this gets to you we'll be stirrin ourselves to stir up our supply of the best so of fillin that God ever invented with fresh bread. Hopin youre the same...