A holiday recipe for you

This week's  "Wordless Wednesday on Tuesday" wasn't published on Tuesday because for some reason my computer thinks today is tomorrow. Therefore when I scheduled the post for Tuesday, it went up on Monday. Why? Ask Blogger. Or Microsoft. Or someone smarter than me.

Also, this week's "Wordless Wednesday on Tuesday" isn't wordless because I want to share a killer-good recipe with you: a recipe for cranberry butter. It's like apple butter only better (IMHO). Even the jars make my mouth water, so along with the recipe I'm sharing a photo of my latest batch. It's a great way to save the seasonal cranberry for year-round sharing!

 

Crockpot Cranberry Butter
Ingredients:
24 oz fresh cranberries, Rinsed & picked over
1 cup brown sugar, packed
1 cinnamon stick, (I used 2.)
1 c apple cider

1. Put all the ingredients in a crockpot and stir to combine well. Turn on high. Let it cook for about 2 hours or until the cranberries are soft.

2. Remove the cinnamon stick and puree the mixture in a food processor or, to make it even easier, use an immersion blender. Puree the cranberries very finely.

3. Force the cranberry puree through a mesh sieve or strainer. Push forcefully with the back of a spoon to get as much cranberry puree as you can. Discard the solids.

4. Pour the puree back into the crockpot. Turn the crockpot to high, and leave the lid ajar. Cook until thickened, approximately another 2 hours, stirring occasionally.

5. Put the cranberry butter into clean jars with tight fitting lids and let cool. Store in the refrigerator and consume within a month. Or, if you're handy with canning, process the jars so the butter will be available year-round.

Eat hearty!


46 comments:

  1. Hari OM
    Oh my gosh,,,,yummmoooooo! Didn't notice any difference last week - but then again we are talking the original menosoupal miss here!!! Hope your festive season is shaping up as orderly as these jars &*> YAM xx

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  2. Finger licking temptation Sue!:-)

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  3. Thanks so much! I LOVE anything with cranberries. Because you're about 8 hours ahead of the USA, I'm commenting and linking on Monday night:) Fortunately I glanced at my email:):) Have a great week.

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  4. Interesting cranberry butter. I haven't tasted that before.

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  5. That sounds delicious. I love fresh cranberry sauce. Can't imagine why people buy that awful canned stuff, when fresh berries are so easy and fun to cook.

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  6. That is a hearty recipe. Now we have idea on what to do with our cranberries which we harvested last summer.

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  7. Ooo looks so yummy. Happy Tuesday.

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  8. Yummy... this one I'll have to try.
    It sounds delish! ;D

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  9. Sounds delish! I haven't had cranberry butter before, but love cranberries! Will have to try sometime. Thanks!

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  10. It sounds pretty good. Thanks for the recipe! Pinned to save and share.

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  11. That looks so yummy!!! To bad no fresh cranberries around these parts.

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  12. That looks delicious!

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  13. That sounds delicious! Thanks for sharing. Have a terrific day.

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  14. Ah, this looks like the ultimate spread for breakfast, perhaps between the halves of a toasted ciabetta roll. The tart cranberries wake us up, the cider adding a hint of sweet, the brown sugar adds smoothness and the cinnamon a hint of spice. The best to you each morning!

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  15. Yummy! I love it! It seems a great idea for breakfast

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  16. That looks good.

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  17. Ugh. You lost me at the word cranberry. Have a good Wednesday!

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  18. this sounds and looks yummy...Thanks for sharing

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  19. First food allergy I ever noticed was to a cranberry relish made by my aunt! My tongue swelled up... so strange!

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  20. Nice! I've just made a load of chutney.

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  21. Cranberry Butter, you say! Now, that's a new one on me. Is it tart? I love the various sizes of jars you used to store the final product! These will make nice gifts or just look pretty in pantry. lol Happy #WW!

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  22. Hello,
    this recepie saunds so yummy!
    I wish you a nice wednesday
    moni

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  23. Delicious sounding! Thanks for linking up to WW

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  24. That sounds so yummy! I have never heard of it before!

    My WW is up with some blessings under my tree that really leave me wordless. http://tc-twistedfairytale.blogspot.ca/2014/12/wordless-wednesday-under-tree.html

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  25. Sounds like a yummy recipe. You know I have a recipe linky every Friday if you would like to share this great recipe again. Hope to see you there.

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  26. Oh that looks good! If I actually had time and energy, I would do this! Or maybe I'll just pass along the recipe to my mom and ask her to make it for me! Haha!

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  27. That almost sounds good to me, and I don't even like Cranberries. I wonder if it could be done with apples instead.

    I hope I get that crock pot from santa!

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  28. OOOhhh this looks so nice to do! Very Christmassy too!

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  29. fantastic recipe....looks yuum..I love the cranberries as well. And look at those jars :)

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  30. Wow this looks great! Thanks for stopping by my blog. I'm linking up to your Wordless Wednesday. :)

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