sour cherry vanilla butter

How To Make sour cherry vanilla butter

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  Step 1
  Start with a large bucket of pitted sour cherries.
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  Step 2
  Fill crockpot with cherries and enough water to almost cover cherries. Cook overnight for 8 hours. Leave the lid tipped to let steam out.
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  Step 3
  Cooked down cherries the next day. That are ready to be blended.
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  Step 4
  Use a hand emersion blender on the cherries. Now, add your sugar, spices and vanilla bean.
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  Step 5
  Split your vanilla bean and remove the seeds. Place the seeds and the bean down into the blended cherries.
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  Step 6
  Cook for another several hours stirring ever so often till the butter becomes a thick consistency. When ready ladle into hot jars and seal.
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  Step 7
  Now, give them a hot water bath for 15 minutes.
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  Step 8
  Place on counter and let cool overnight. Next day, check seals and tighten. Place your labels on jars and store.
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  Step 9
  June 17th, 2014 --- I must share that I used this sour cherry vanilla butter in this recipe I am posting https://www.justapinch.com/recipes/dessert/cookies/apple-butter-bars.html and it was fabulous! I will be making them again & again. I didn't have any apple butter but remembered my cherry butter so I used it instead. It was a perfect match.
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