Champagne Pear Butter

Total Time: 6 hrs 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 6 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 20 yellow bartlet pears (peel, core, and cut into a small dice)
• 4 cups sugar
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
• 1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract
• 1 tablespoon cornstarch
• 1 cup champagne

Recipe

• 1 place diced pears into slow cooker. in mixing bowl, combine sugar, cornstarch, spices, vanilla, and champagne, stirring to dissolve slightly. pour mixture over pears, cover, and cook on high 2 hours, stirring occasionally until syrup starts to form. turn to low setting and cook approximately 6-8 hours.
• 2 ladle into blender in small batches, blending until smooth and pouring out into bowl, repeating until all the pears have been processed and you have bowl full of fruit butter. i then ladle mine into jelly jars and can them using the water bath canning method.