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| MsCwick |
Posted - Aug 28 2007 : 10:00:43 AM
Pear & Raisin Preserve
2 lb sugar
3 cups water
6 tbsp honey
2 lb pears
10 Whole cloves
3.5 tbsp raisins
1 med lemon thinly sliced
Mix together the sugar and water in a large saucepan. Place over ow heat and cook, stirring constantly, until sugar has dissolved.
Add honey and bring to boil, boil rapidly for 8 mins
peel core and halve the pears
put the pears, cloves, and raisins and lemon slices into the saucepan w/ honey syrup, and cook over medium heat until pears are tender and syrup is thick.
spoon the pears into warm sterilized jars and pour the syrup over them. Seal immediately. Process by water bath method
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Pear Butter
16 pears
2 cups water
3lb sugar
1 tsp ground cloves
2 tsp ground cinamon
3/4tsp ground ginger
3tbsp lemon juice.
wash pears well and cut into quarters. do not peel or core them.
put into large saucepan and add the water. cover adn cook over medium hear or about a half hour until tender.
press the pears through a colander and measure the pulp. return the pulp tp a saucepan.
put 1.5 cups of sugar into a seperate saucepan and cook until it melts and carmelizes. pour into the pears.
add the cloves, cinamon and ginger, adn remaining sugar. mix well and cook uncovered until thick, stirring frequently.
remove from the heat and stir in the lemon juice.
pour into warm sterilized jars and seal.
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Pear Chutney
3lb pears
1.25 cups wine vinegar
3/4 cup lemon juice
1/25 cups brown sugar
1 cup sultana raisins
1 cup chopped dates
1/2 lb walnut halves
2 tsp salt
Peel, core and dice pears
Mix the pears together with the rest of the ingredients in a large saucepan.
Bring the mixture to a boil, reduce heast and simmer for about an hour or until the mixture is thick
pour into warm sterilized jars and cover immediately with two layers of wax paper and one layer of aluminum foil. Tie securely with a string.
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Pears in Almond Syrup
5 cups water
1/2 cup lemon juice
3.5 lb sugar
3/4 lb blanched almonds
4lb pears
Mix together sugar, water, lemon juice, and half the almonds in a saucepan.
Cook over a low heat stirring constantly until the sugar dissolves.
Bring to a boil and boil rapidly until the syrup thickens
peel, core, and cut the pears into eighths.
add pears to the saucepan along with the remaining almonds
bring to a boil, then reduce heat and simmer two minutes
pour into warm sterilized jars and seal immediately
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| 6 L A T E S T R E P L I E S (Newest First) |
| Tina Michelle |
Posted - Sep 01 2007 : 4:57:51 PM
mine look identical to the comice pear picture here:
http://images.inmagine.com/168nwm/foodcollection/fdc_single1/fdc900032.jpg
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| Tina Michelle |
Posted - Sep 01 2007 : 4:53:57 PM
I don't know what kind I have but when they ripen they turn a golden yellow color and taste alot like the anjou type.
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| MsCwick |
Posted - Sep 01 2007 : 07:51:35 AM
Tina, do you have an Asian pear tree?
I have two, and usually they are so loaded down that I have to keep the horses out from under them for they love the pears and I'm afraid they could make them selves sick. My mare has figured out to rub on the tree then the pears fall!! :) LOL
This year everything got frost bitten, so hopefulls next year.
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| Tina Michelle |
Posted - Aug 31 2007 : 6:56:05 PM
posted a pear recipe that I developed today..over on my blog if anyone would like to take a look.
I have been trying to come up with a few of my own creations using the pears we harvested from our tree. So far I have come up with 2 very yummy family pleasing desserts.
A pie, and then today ...a cake that is very moist and along the lines of a coffee cake type cake.
Anyhow..they are posted at my blog.
http://gardengoose.blogspot.com/
I of course have printed out the recipes that Cristine has shared and I have plans to hopefully create some of the Pears with almond syrup real soon.
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| Buttercup |
Posted - Aug 28 2007 : 9:08:00 PM
Yes!! Thank you ever so much!!!
Hugz!
Talitha
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| Tina Michelle |
Posted - Aug 28 2007 : 3:09:20 PM
thank you so much!
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