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.