Pumpkin Butter

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PREP TIME:
30 minutes

SERVES:

Makes 6 half-pints

TOTAL COOKING TIME:

10 minutes
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INGREDIENTS
  • 2 x 16 oz cans pumpkin
  • 1 3/4-oz package powdered fruit pectin
  • 1 tbsp pumpkin pie spice
  • 4 1/2 cups sugar

DIRECTIONS

  1. 1.
    Combine pumpkin, pectin and pumpkin pie spice in a Dutch oven or large saucepan. Cook and stir over high heat until very hot (mixture is too thick to boil). Stir in sugar. Stir until mixture boils over most of the surface. Boil hard for 1 minute, stirring constantly.
  2. 2.
    Let cool and ladle into half-pint jars.
  3. 3.
    Store in refrigerator.