Folks, get out your slow cookers… time for some pumpkin butter.
I thought apple butter was so easy… why not do the same for pumpkins? Well… the pumpkins were painful. Its fun to carve jack-o-lanterns, but peeling and chopping up a pumpkin… not so fun. In the end, I threw them in the oven for 40 minutes to soften the pulp, then scooped it out. I also noticed that with apple butter, the apples have a natural sweetness that really makes adding sugar optional. With pumpkin butter you don’t have much choice, the sugar seemed necessary.
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