Pear Butter for Winter
A delicious purée of fragrant, sweet pears to put up for winter. A simple recipe for capturing a fragrant fruit harvest. Minimal ingredients and time give you a tasty way to liven up breakfast — with pancakes, cottage cheese pancakes, or toast. You can also stir it into all sorts of desserts.
Cooking method
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Step 1:
Gather your ingredients. The weight given is for fruit already cored and peeled. Any variety of pear works; go with fully ripe fruit. Adjust the sugar freely depending on how sweet your pears are. The citric acid helps preserve the purée.
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Step 2:
Wash the pears and pat them dry. Cut each in half, remove the stem and the core with the seeds, then cut the pears into medium pieces and put them in a saucepan.
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Step 3:
Add 2 tablespoons of water, cover the saucepan, and set it over the heat. Once it comes to a boil, lower the heat and simmer the pears for 10 to 30 minutes until soft — the time depends on the variety.
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Step 4:
When the pears are tender, add the sugar and blend everything into a smooth purée — a regular or immersion blender works well.
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Step 5:
Stir the citric acid into the pear purée, set it back over the heat, and bring to a boil. Simmer for another 3–4 minutes.
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Step 6:
The pear butter is ready for winter. To keep it, spoon it into sterilized jars and seal with clean lids. Turn each jar upside down, wrap it in something warm, and leave it to cool, then store in a cool place.
- This pear purée comes out wonderfully sweet, with a rich pear flavor. It's a great addition to any breakfast — cottage cheese pancakes, pancakes, cottage cheese, or porridge — and the simplest treat of all is to eat it on toast. You can also use it in all kinds of sweet dishes: a simple compote, or, for something fancier, baked goods like hand pies, tarts, and cheesecakes. And of course it's a lovely addition to cold desserts like cottage cheese mousses or gelatin desserts. Packaged nicely, a jar of this pear butter even makes a great gift.
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Pear - 42 kcal/100g
- Dried pear - 246 kcal/100g
- Canned pears - 76 kcal/100g
- Granulated sugar - 398 kcal/100g
- Sugar - 398 kcal/100g
- Citric acid - 0 kcal/100g
- Water - 0 kcal/100g
