Making Pumpkin Butter

[Nate]

Today we cooked up A LOT of Pumpkin Butter today.

Yesterday the in-laws carved up a bunch of pumpkins (three 50-55 gallon trash barrels fool after cut up).

Today we cooked it all up. We used three large copper kettles over fire to do it. After it cooked down a bit and the water was mostly cooked out we added sugar and cinnamon and let it cook a little longer.

We started just before 8:00 and finished around 6:00. The ladies over estimated on how much pumpkin we needed and ended up only using about 2 and 1/4 of the trash cans full of pumpkin.

We will I’ll use this for pumpkin pie, soup, pumpkin bars, cheese cake, ice cream, etc... basically anything pumpkin. I think if people knew the work that went into this the fall pumpkin craze might not be such a craze lol.

Final result was over 34 gallons (136 quarts or 272 pints).

[Polarbear777]

This is why canned pumpkin is actually not pumpkin but a different type of squash. Takes too much effort to mass process.

Good for you guys!

[Nate]

We rotate. One year is apple butter, another is vegetable soup, and then another is pumpkin butter... sometimes multiple things in a year. They also raise and butcher some chickens once or twice a year. Hard to beat the real stuff.

[jecucolo]

That is some set up. I bet it has a fantastic aroma ‘

[Nate]

Not bad although I tend to favor the apple butter aroma when we do it.

[JGo37]

You guys are frikkin' crazy in SUCH a good way. We are looking to move right now - got any neighboring homes available? My wife is an attack nurse (air lift) - which also seems like a good fit as a neighbor for y'all...

[Nate]

Crazy is probably right... good way is debatable lol.... I wish there was some property available. My wife and I are wanting to move out of town a bit.

[MBMorgan]

This almost (but not quite 😎) makes me wish that I like pumpkin. Great job!

[Nate]

Thanks. To be honest with you I’m not huge on everything Pumpkin. In fact the pumpkin spice trend in fall makes me gag sometimes with the concoctions that are dreamed up. I just like to have a few slices of pumpkin pie buried under a mountain of cool whip during the holiday season.

[EdF]

Yowza!!!

[Nate]

Yowza is kind of how I feel today after all the work yesterday.

[EdF]

I'll bet!

[tbob4]

I am impressed! Great job.

[Nate]

Thank you sir!

[tbob4]

Thank you, Nate. I live in a big farming community. I know I take a lot of things for granted when I pay a few bucks more for products at my local farmer's market, which is a true farmer's market. I always know the products taste better but never consider the work and effort put into making them.