Name: Fruit Butters
Ingredients: 4 lb Fruit (apple, peach, apricot, plum) (up to 5); 4 c Granulated sugar, about (when making apple butter use 1/2 brown sugar) (up to 8); 1 1/2 ts Lemon juice; 2 ts Cinnamon; 1 ts Ground cloves; 1/2 ts Ground allspice

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CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Fruits			1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

4	lb	Fruit (apple, peach, apricot, plum) (up to 5)
4	c	Granulated sugar, about (when making apple butter use 1/2 brown sugar) (up to 8)
1 1/2	ts	Lemon juice
2	ts	Cinnamon
1	ts	Ground cloves
1/2	ts	Ground allspice

INSTRUCTIONS

This makes about 3 pints of fruit butter
Wash, peel, pit (or core) and crush fruit saving the juice. Simmer crushed
fruit in its own juices add a bit of water (or apple cider for apple
butter) to juice if if should start sticking. Cook until fruit is soft and
mushy. Mash and rub the fruit through a sieve (if you have a food processor
you can blend it first to making pushing it through the sieve easier.)
WARNING: if you do not use a sieve your butter will be lumpy.
Measure the pulp by one cupfuls into a 9x13 baking dish. Stir in 1/2 c to 1
c sugar (depending on the tartness of the fruit) for every cup of pulp .
Stir in lemon juice and spices. Spred mixture evenly in pan. Bake in
moderate oven 2 to 2 1/2 hours. The fruit butter is done when a heaping
spoonful of it can hold its shape when help upside down. Pack into jars,
and let cool to room temp. Cover and refrigerate.
Posted to TNT - Prodigy's Recipe Exchange Newsletter  by crmcbride@juno.com
(Caroline R McBride) on Jul 11, 1997

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