Well, 1st flat has been cooking again! This time, equally you've likely already figured out, we made pumpkin butter. And, oh, was it always good.
Our vocabulary unit of measurement this calendar week was centered around the chore of a chef, as well as included the words 'utensils' as well as 'ingredients' ... with other words, of course. I simply couldn't resist incorporating a hands-on cooking activity! And it simply hence happened that nosotros were besides learning well-nigh the pumpkin increase life bicycle ... ya know, pumpkins foremost equally a seed, as well as hence grow into a sprout, which grows into a constitute ... scream back learning that form of stuff?
Hmmmm, combine cooking vocabulary with pumpkins? Could it acquire whatever easier?? I mean, really, no challenge at all. I decided this slow-cooker pumpkin butter would live on perfect!
So, my crockpot in i trial over again made the journeying into school, along with a few other utensils as well as the ingredients to brand this rich, flavorful pumpkin butter. Then my piffling helpers as well as I laid well-nigh whipping this up.
It's sooooooo easy. Easy-sneezy, equally we'd nation inwards our class.
Put 2 cans of pumpkin into a slow-cooker as well as stir inwards a bunch (quite a large bunch!) of dark-brown saccharide ...
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| In goes the dark-brown sugar |
... as well as some cinnamon as well as solid soil cloves. (Two of my boys did a fantastic chore stirring this up. They actually got into it! Notice the two-handed grips on that spoon??)
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| In become the spices |
Cook it for a piece until it's a gorgeous as well as rich nighttime dark-brown color ...
... as well as and hence slather a large ol' dollop on a biscuit (or other mouth-delivery vehicle of your choice). We tried it on biscuits as well as graham crackers, as well as decided equally a cast that nosotros liked the biscuit best. Oh, but residue assured, there was for certain a fair portion of us eating it at in i trial upwards with a spoon! Fabulously delicious.
Pumpkin Butter
Source: My nieces (They both made this, along with other recipes, when they were inwards 1st grade. Their instructor as well as hence compiled a railroad train majority for them that they yet bring ... hence sweet.)
Ingredients
2 (15 oz.) cans 100% pure pumpkin (about iv c.)
1 (16 oz.) box lite dark-brown sugar
1 1/2 tsp. solid soil cinnamon
1/4 tsp. solid soil cloves
Dash of salt
Directions
1. Combine all ingredients inwards a slow-cooker. Cook on depression rut for iii to iv hours. Or, combine all ingredients inwards a large saucepan as well as railroad train over medium until the color is nighttime brown.
2. Serve warm or mutual frigidity with graham crackers, chocolate graham crackers, or biscuits.
Enjoy!
(I bet it would besides live on swell on toast, English linguistic communication muffins, bagels, or mild-flavored crackers. Yum.)
