September is over and so it’s time for our monthly Mastery Challenge accounting. This was a good month for the challenge, with 73 people reporting in that they cooked up a batch or two of fruit butter in order to meet the goals of the challenge.
The array of fruits used was nice and broad. Folks made butters out of apples, apricots, blueberries, cherries, cranberries, figs, muscadine grapes, nectarines, pawpaws, peaches, pears, plums, pumpkins, rhubarb, tomatoes, and zucchini. Those butters were flavored with aleppo pepper, bourbon, cardamom, chai, chipotle, cinnamon, ginger, lavender, lemon, rosewater, rum, and vanilla. And they were sweetened with brown sugar, cane sugar, honey, maple, and sorghum.
Going into the challenge, the feelings about fruit butters were scattered across the spectrum, with a number of folks feeling ok and then really positive about the style of preserve.
Happily, after completing the challenge, nearly everyone who participated feels pretty darn good about fruit butters. That always warms my heart. Sadly, I forgot to include a field for people to leave comments about this month’s challenge on the submission form (oops), so I don’t have any words of wisdom or excitement from participants to share. 🙁
Apple and Pears
- Pear and Lemon Butter – Tandy Sinclair
- Roasted Apple Butter with Maple Syrup – East of Eden Cooking
- Maple Bourbon Apple Butter – Grace Lee
- Apple and Pear Paste – Jarla
- Apple Ginger Butter – Casula Mellita
- Maple Bourbon Apple Butter – Katherine Dowdell
- Spiced Apple Butter – Jeanne-Marie Hagan
- Maple Bourbon Apple Butter – Heidi Graham
- Chai-Spiced Apple and Plum Butter – Genevieve Boehme
- Maple Apple Butter – My Hands in Dirt
- Pear Butter – Prospect the Pantry
- Maple Bourbon Apple Butter – Tesla Anomaly
- Slow Cooker Pear Butter – Stephanie Beauchamp
Cherries, Nectarines, Plums, and Peaches
- Damson Plum Butter – Les Campagnonades
- Peach Butter – My Savory Spoon
- Brown Sugar Crockpot Plum Butter – Hip Roof Barn
- Peach and Pear Fruit Butter – Susan
- Pflaumenmus – Daring Gourmet
- Peach and Lavender Butter – Elizabeth Hinckley
- Slow Cooker Italian Plum Butter – Heather Ryall-Korekiyo
- Peach Butter – Karen Burchard
- Spiced Plum Butter – SAL
Everything Else
- Maple Sweetened Pumpkin Butter – Thoughts and Reflections
- Muscadine Butter – Brit in the South
- Fig Butter – Cooking with Mary and Friends
- Maple Pumpkin Butter – Lindsay Murray
- Moscato Fig Butter – The Pit Stop BBQ
- Tomato Butter – Jenn Spinosi
- Fig and Plum Butter – Will Graves
- Strawberry Rhubarb Butter – Cathy Kempf
I am going to scoop up some of the post-Halloween discount pumpkins and make pumpkin butter now. Thank you! This is a great idea.