Cappeln Apple-Butter Cook September 9, 1995 Used and cleaned kettles and stirrers are set aside to dry throughout the afternoon as the annual day of apple butter cooking at Cappeln draws to a close. (Apple butter was not a food known to the Prussian and Westfalian German immigrants who came to St. Charles County in the 1800s. Rather, it is believed to have been adopted from the "Pennsylvania Dutch" [Amish, Mennonites] who had emigrated to the U.S. from Switzerland.) -
