Crock Pot, Pumpkin Butter

Do you still have some Pumpkins laying around as your Fall and Holiday decorations? Well don't let them go to waste. One year we must have had a couple of dozen in our garden begging to be used. This recipe would have come in handy back then.

Ingredients
Original recipe makes 8 half-pint jars 

                            

1 cup white sugar 

2 tablespoons ground cinnamon

1 tablespoon ground cloves                            

1/2 teaspoon ground allspice

1 (5 pound) fresh pumpkin - seeded, peeled, and cut into 2-inch cubes

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Directions

1. Combine the sugar, cinnamon, cloves, and allspice in a bowl. Place about 1/4 of the pumpkin into the bottom of a slow cooker, and sprinkle with 1/4 of the sugar mixture; repeat layers 3 more times. Cover the slow cooker, set it on Low, then cook for 8 hours or overnight. Stir once or twice during cooking. When the pumpkin is a dark, golden color, place an immersion blender into the slow cooker, and blend the pumpkin butter until smooth.

 

 

 

 

 

Here is another one with just a little different ingredients. I like variety, so decided what sounds good to you. The basic part is still the same...Pumpkin, spices and a crock pot.

Oh can you smell it now?!

 

Place the following ingredients into a cold crock pot:

10 c. pureed pumpkin
4 c. sugar
2 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. ginger
1/2 tsp. cloves
1/2 tsp. nutmeg
juice of 1 lemon

Turn crock pot on low & cook all day {or all night}.
It will darken in color & become thicker as it cooks.

After completely cooled, spoon pumpkin butter in sterilized pint {or half-pint} jars.

Here is a tip...warning that the author thought best to share.

 

**Pumpkin butter cannot be stored on the shelf,
even if the jars have been sealed in a water bath. 
It must be refrigerated for up to 3 weeks or stored in the freezer.

This is really delicious ... kinda like pumpkin pie right outta the jar ;)

We especially like it on hot biscuits.

 

 

Now that is when she got my attention...

Pumpkin Pie on a biscuit!

 

 

 

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