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Pear And Lemon Butter
This fruit butter is delicious spread on scones and topped with clotted cream
Recipe Category:
Condiments, Preserves
Makes enough for:
1
batch fruit butter
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Adapted from Preserve page 37
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Ingredients
500
g
pears
150
mls
water
1
lemon,
rind scrubbed
75
g
coconut sugar
300
g
fructose
Method
Place the pears and water into a sauce pan
Add the juice of the lemon and then roughly chop up the peel
Place the chopped peel into the pan and stir
Bring to the boil over a medium to high temperature
Reduce the temperature, cover the pan and simmer for an hour
Use a potato masher to mash the fruit into a pulp
Press the pulp through a chinois and weigh it *
Place into a clean sauce pan and stir in the sugar and fructose
Continue sturring over a low temperature until the sugar and fructose have dissolved
Increase the temperature and bring to a boil
Reduce the temperature and simmer for an hour, stirring occasionally
When thickened to a creamy consistency transfer to warmed
sterilized glass jars
Secure the lid on the jar and leave to cool
Refrigerate and use within 3 months of making
Notes
* mine weighed 500g and you need 375g of sugar per 500g of pulp