Artisan
Honey Pineapple Butter
Slow-cooked fruit butter with local honey. Worth the wait.
Slow-cooked fruit butter with local honey. Worth the wait.
Slow-cooked fruit butter with local honey. Worth the wait.
This is not a cream — it's a fruit butter. MD2 pineapple slow-cooked for hours until it caramelizes into a thick, amber spread, then finished with raw local honey. Deep, complex, and utterly addictive on warm sourdough.
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Fruit butter is one of the oldest preservation techniques in the world — slow-cooking fruit until the natural sugars caramelize and the texture becomes thick, spoonable, and deeply concentrated. We took that tradition and applied it to our MD2 Gold pineapple. The process takes patience. We start by cooking down fresh MD2 pineapple pulp at low heat for over four hours, stirring constantly as the fruit reduces to roughly a third of its original volume. During this slow reduction, the natural sugars in the pineapple undergo a Maillard reaction — the same chemistry that makes caramel, browned butter, and roasted coffee so irresistible. The result is a deep amber spread with notes of toffee, warm spice, and concentrated tropical fruit. In the final stage, we fold in raw local honey — sourced from Philippine apiaries in the same region as our pineapple farms. The honey adds floral complexity and a smooth, rounded sweetness that balances the pineapple's brightness. No pectin, no added thickeners. The slow-cook process creates its own body naturally. This is our most labor-intensive product, and every jar reflects that.
