No partridge here, just two fabulously bountiful pear trees that for the past two years have been decorating my back yard. Sand pears never really get soft, in fact they are hard as rocks but they have great flavor. Last year I used the pears to knock stuff out of my Oak trees…ha! We definitely did better than that this year.
This pear butter turned out absolutely delicious and it was so easy. The only work was peeling and coring the pears. Even though that took a bit of time, it was kind of nice. It reminded me that fall is around the corner and made me stop and relax, which was lovely.
I have so many pears left on my trees and it’s a good thing because this pear butter will go quickly. I can’t wait to make up another batch. Thanks to Cooking with Christen for the recipe! I actually adapted this recipe from her apple butter recipe but she just came out with an adapted recipe for pear butter which you can find here. I omitted the cloves from the recipe, only because I didn’t have any and to be honest with you I’m not a big fan to begin with. If you like cloves, by all means add them! 🙂
Crockpot Pear Butter
Adapted from A Year of Slow Cooking
Ingredients:
10 ripe pears
3/4 cup white granulated sugar
3/4 cup brown sugar
2 tsp. cinnamon
1 TBSP vanilla
Method:
FYI: This is really a 2-day process! I started in the afternoon and had it timed so that I could set the crockpot timer for the second time right before bed, so it would be done in the morning.
Peel your pears. Quarter them and remove the core. Place in a crockpot sprayed with nonstick cooking spray. Add vanilla, cover and cook on LOW for 8 hours.
When the 8 hours is up, mash with a fork (this is really easy, they’re so soft so it doesn’t take much at all!). Stir in the sugars and cinnamon. Cover again and cook once more on LOW for 6 hours.
If you want yours to be super smooth, you may use an immersion blender or something like it to puree. But I thought the slightly chunky texture was nice. You may store in the fridge or can it. The Ball website has great information and tutorials on how to can, if you’ve never done this before. You only need to process this in the water for 10 minutes.
