http://archive.heinessen.com/mlp/thread/19529407#p19640374

>"All natural self-made Apple Family quality apple-butter! Get yours now!"
>"Wow, Applejack, this butter tastes really great! How do you make it?"
>"Sorry, Twilight, but this is an old family secret and ah promised Granny Smith to never share it."
>"I see...can I have another jar?"

>hours later
>the beeps and boops of highly sophisticated magic powered machinery can be heard through the entire basement while samples bubble in all kinds of tubes, phials and dishes
>"Hmm...according to the amount of..."
>Twilight scribbles down some notes
>"Must eat a lot of apples..."
>she opens an old tome, compares the color and viscosity of the differently treated samples with the recordings
>"Aha...this points to....the stickiness of this one leads to...AHA!"
>she drops her magically floating quill as the realization what she just read enters her mind
>"Apple-butter comes from mares...who eat a lot of apples...oh Celestia. Oh oh oh."
>Just in that moment Spike enters the basement, carrying a plate with buttered bread slices on it, munching happily on at least three in his mouth
>"Hey Twilight *NOM* I fixed us some more bread with that great butter from AJ *munch* you want some?"
>"Spike! This butter, it's Applejack's!"
>"So? I mean she sold it to us, so technically it is ours now. *NOM*"
>"Nononono Spike, don't you understand, she made it!"
>"Well, duh, of course, *NOMNOM* she said it was self-made...really good stuff.."
>"STOP SHOVELING APPLEJACK'S MILK IN YOUR FACE!"