Years ago, my Grampa planted a couple of pear trees. One of them is a dwarf pear of some kind and the other is, I think, a variety of seckel pear. But Dave loves pears, and apparently we're the only ones who want to see the pears actually get eaten.
So, we went up 2 separate afternoons, and with some help from my dad and my sister, we picked all the pears (although there were only about 6 on the dwarf tree) and brought them home. We ended up with 5 grocery bags of pears. Not produce bags, grocery bags.
We made 4 jars of brandied pears. We made 4 1/2 pints of pear butter with orange and ginger. We made 6 jars of spiced pears. We made 5 more jars of brandied pears. We made 7 jars of cinnamon pear jam. We canned pears in heavy syrup and I made a pear betty. Unfortunately, we didn't get through all the pears before they started going bad, but we got all but the last 2 dozen or so preserved.
We're pretty proud of ourselves. It was a huge project and took most of our free time for almost 2 weeks. We ran out of canning jars. We ran out of lids. We ran out of space in the pantry.
Recipes:
Most of the recipes came from this site - Oregon State Extension Office.
Spiced Pears from Fresh Preserving
Pear Jam from SUREJELL (we just added about a 1/2 Tablespoon of Cinnamon.)
Not that I expect you all to run out and get a whole tree worth of pears, but we are really enjoying these recipes, and in fact we just drank the leftover syrup from the brandied pears, and I thought I'd share them with everyone.
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