Today my husband and I went to the opening of a new store in our area. It's called Yoder's Country Market and as you might guess is run by either Amish or Mennonites (I didn't see any horses and buggies, and the men seemed to be wearing dark blue work pants with suspenders, but the women and girls who worked there were all wearing caps of a couple of different styles and the more or less traditional "plain" dresses.) Yoder's appears to be a chain or perhaps co-op where you can buy all sorts of good stuff, including natural foods and flours, sugars and grains in bulk. At reasonable prices, too!

Anyhow, I bought a cookbook, and while leafing through it I came upon the following recipe. Leave it to the Mennonites (or Amish) to figure out what to do with something that always gives

MOCK APPLE BUTTER
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4 cups cooked and blenderized zucchini (peel and seed before cooking)
4 Tablespoons vinegar
1 teaspoon lemon juice
2 Cups sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/8 teaspoon allspice
1/2 cup red hot candies (optional)

Mix all together and put it in the crockpot or oven and cook to desired thickness. (the author says she puts it in the crockpot on low overnight) Put in hot jars and seal.

Hmm, they must be Mennonites if they're using a crockpot....electricity, don't you know!
Further on down the page is another one:
Zucchini Jam