How to make an easy old-fashioned pear butter recipe in your crockpot with fresh pears, brown sugar, vanilla, ground ginger and cinnamon that keeps well in your refrigerator and really yummy on toast, english muffins, cookies and mixed into yogurt.
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Pin ItAnother recipe that I just love is homemade apple butter! It’s so incredibly good (especially when apples are at its best). If you want an alternative to this pear butter, or just have an abundance of apples sitting around, learn how to make apple butter here.
Fruit Butter Recipes
Crockpot Apple Butter
Old-Fashioned Pear Butter Ingredients
How to Make Pear Butter
- Combine Ingredients. Place sliced pears, apple juice, lemon juice, brown sugar, white sugar, cardamom, ginger, and cinnamon into the slow cooker and stir to combine.
- Cook and Blend. Cover and cook on low for 8–10 hours, stirring occasionally. Blend with an immersion blender until smooth, then cook uncovered for 1–2 more hours until thickened.
- Finish and Store. Stir in vanilla extract, allow to cool slightly, then spoon into sterilized jars. Store in the refrigerator for up to 2 weeks or freeze for longer storage.
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Storage and Freezing Instructions
To Store: Store the pear butter in a sterilized jar in the fridge for up to 2 weeks. Ensure the jar is sealed tightly to keep fresh.
To Freeze: Freeze the pear butter in airtight containers or ziplock bags for up to 3 months. Thaw in the fridge overnight before using.
What to Do with Old-Fashioned Pear Butter
It’s perfectly sweet, cinnamon-y, thick and spreadable, and works great with a lot of foods/recipes.
- Eat with cheese! Pears + cheese are one of the best combinations (especially with spicy foods), and they will almost always work well together. Some of my favorites foods to add this pear butter to is this grilled cheese, with jalapeno cream cheese on toast, a bagel or crackers, bacon-wrapped jalapenos or baked jalapeno poppers.
- Spread on pretty much any baked good! Especially tasty on blueberry scones, this pumpkin bread, applesauce waffles, pretty much any cookie recipe and on these blackberry muffins.
- Include it with pork chops! Actually, any pork recipes pair really well with pear butter, but one of my favorites recently have been with this pork chops with applesauce recipe.
- Swirl it into yogurt or ice cream! Any base yogurt or ice cream will taste delicious with an added swirl of cinnamon bear butter. This peanut butter ice cream and honey lavender ice cream have always been hits with my kids though.
More Good Fruit Butter Recipes
Old-Fashioned Pear Butter
Ingredients
- 4 pounds pears, cored and sliced
- ¼ cup organic apple juice
- 2 tbsp lemon juice
- 1 ½ cups brown sugar
- ½ cup white granulated sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- ½ tsp cardamom
- ½ tsp ground ginger
- 1 tsp cinnamon
Instructions
- Place the sliced pears, apple juice, lemon juice, brown sugar, white sugar, cardamom, ginger, and cinnamon into a slow cooker. Stir well to combine.
- Cover and cook on low for 8–10 hours, stirring occasionally, until the pears are very soft and the mixture has darkened and thickened.
- Once the pears are tender, blend the mixture with an immersion blender until completely smooth (or carefully transfer to a blender in batches).
- Continue cooking uncovered on low for another 1–2 hours, stirring occasionally, until the pear butter reaches your desired thickness.
- Stir in the vanilla extract at the end.
- Allow to cool slightly, then spoon into sterilized jars.
- Store in the refrigerator for up to 2 weeks or freeze for longer storage.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
