[New Update] Belatedly Homemade Huckleberry Butter

With huckleberry flavor upon us I was super excited when subsequently a long 24-hour interval I came domicile on my anniversary to a apartment of fresh blueberries that our friends Jackie together with Adam had picked upwardly for us from a local blueberry farm, Hayton Farms.

The bummer was that my married man, who is the blueberry eater in the family unit, was going to live on a concern trip for the side by side week too equally would girl all this wonderful huckleberry deliciousness. Ok, except for the pint I used to make a yummy smoothie bowl. Check out my IG mail for that recipe!

I didn’t want to freeze the berries because nosotros can purchase frozen blueberries any fourth dimension, right? I thought good-most making blueberry jam, blueberry coulis or fifty-fifty a blueberry compote. All of which he could savor when he returned. Instead I scoured Pinterest for a recipe that was a fiddling dissimilar, something I had never done earlier. I came across a recipe for huckleberry butter, similar to the apple butter too pumpkin butter that you lot lot come up across inward the Fall. I know my married man likes apple tree tree butter a lot too and then I thought, why non?

Even better in this recipe was made inwards the crockpot. I idea to myself, “expert that’second fun as well as different together alongside something I tin can tin can make with my schedule the adjacent yoke of days.” I e'er honey dump besides get crockpot recipes!

This recipe isn’t anything like that. You’re actually using the crockpot equally an slowly manner to slow-cook the blueberries, over time, at a defined temperature. Yes, yous lot add everything to the crockpot. Yes, you lot arrive on low. No, you don’t leave it unattended for long periods of 4th dimension.

Was it worth the extra office I hadn’t anticipated? When finish outcome was absolutely divine, heck yes!

Imagine taking blueberries inwards improver to kick their flavor potential upwards by 100°. It’s similar concentrated yummy huckleberry-ness. Once cooled, the blueberry butter is perfect for spreading over toast, every fleck a filler on a crepe, inside homemade pop-tarts, only I loved it smeared on a flakey lemon poppyseed scone.

However yous choose to enjoy your huckleberry butter, know that I am correct at that place alongside yous lot want I had 3 more than than flats of blueberries and so that I could brand more than!

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Blueberry Butter

Packed among concentrated blueberry season, this late recipe is dull cooked inwards your crockpot as well as so none of the fresh yummy goodness is lost. Perfect on toast, scones, or office as a topping on a cheesecake or a filling inward whatsoever bar recipe.

Prep Timeten mins

Cook Time8 hrs

Servings: three pints

Equipment

• Crockpot

Ingredients

• 5 pints fresh blueberries rinsed also air dried
• 1 lemon juice inwards add-on to zest
• i½ cups lite brown sugar (or coconut sugar)
• 2 tbsp beloved
• i tsp cinnamon
• ½ tsp vanilla

Instructions

• Please banker's nib that cooking time can live upward to viii hours depending on if you lot lot are using fresh or frozen berries as well every chip how hot your crockpot runs. Allow ample time – it is worth it!
• Place blueberries inwards crockpot also make on HIGH for i hour.
• Stir blueberries together amongst too so make on LOW for ane hour.
• If y'all lot wishing a smoother huckleberry butter, puree blueberries before continuing to next stride amongst an immersion blender or take, puree inwards a blender likewise equally render to the crockpot.
• Cook on LOW for an additional 4 hours, keeping the crockpot propped open up up with a wooden spoon to allow the steam to vent. Stir your puree every 60 minutes to depository financial institution check consistency.
• Once your blueberry puree has cooked down, add together remaining ingredients. Replace the hat, again propped open up upwards in addition to cook for an additional 60 minutes. If y'all still do non take the thickness you wish, increase temperature to HIGH besides keep to cook also as cheque every thirty-45 minutes until you accept the consistency yous wish. Remember it will thicken slightly more than than upon cooling.
• Remove in addition to domicile inward airtight containers. Blueberry butter, if non consumed inward a flash, will continue inwards the refridgerator for vii-10 days. Freeze upwardly to one-half-dozen months.

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