Spiced Pumpkin Preserves

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• 6 cups raw peeled pumpkin (1 1/2 in. cubes)
• 2 teaspoons whole cloves or 1 tablespoon ground cloves
• 1 cup water
• 1 cup cider vinegar
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1 cup sugar
• 3 cinnamon sticks
• 1/2 teaspoon allspice

Recipe

• 1 prick pumpkin chucks with a fork.
• 2 combine rest of the ingredients in a sauce pan and boil 5 minutes to make the syrup.
• 3 add fruit (in batches if necessary) and simmer until pumpkin is slightly tender.
• 4 spoon hot pumpkin in clean hot pint jars.
• 5 fill with hot syrup leaving 1/4 inch head space.
• 6 (prepare more syrup if necessary).
• 7 seal and process in a hot water bath for 15 minutes.
• 8 *if you use whole cloves, spike the pumpkin pieces with them.
• 9 **try to even out the stick cinnamon among the jars.
• 10 ***this recipe needs to age.
• 11 best if left.