Spiced Pumpkin Preserves

Feel free to halve the vinegar in this recipe if you want a sweeter version. The longer these set, the better they are!

• Ready In: 30 mins
• Yields: 3 pints

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 white sugar
• 3  cinnamon sticks
• 1⁄2 teaspoon allspice

Directions

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.