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| Ga Girl |
Posted - Sep 14 2010 : 05:47:30 AM
My mom has a full tree over at her home and she doesn't eat them so I hate for them to waste. Please give me some ideas all I have ever done was a pear salad. That might get a little boring.lol So any ideas iare great! Blessings,Karen
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| Violets November |
Posted - Sep 27 2010 : 10:18:03 PM
I'll never forget pears that were served in the dorm cafeteria when I attended college. It was simple and I haven't had them since.
On a pear half, put a scoop of cream cheese which has been sweetened. I'm sure it was sweetened with sugar, but you could use whatever you're accustomed to.
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| Singing Tree Farm |
Posted - Sep 20 2010 : 6:00:49 PM
Karen, I only know about the hard varieties, and they dry very well. A delicious sweet treat that are eaten as fast as the dehydrater will work! 
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| Ga Girl |
Posted - Sep 20 2010 : 2:36:27 PM
Whoa! I had no idea I would get such a great a response, I had better get busy cause I want to try each and every recipe! Thank you all so much! Blessings,Karen
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| highlandviewpantry |
Posted - Sep 20 2010 : 1:22:41 PM
Substitute them for apples in pies and crisps. I made pear butter and right now my daughter is chopping some up for a fruit salad.
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| chessie |
Posted - Sep 20 2010 : 08:30:34 AM
Candy, Keiffer pears are great! They have a bad rep but I love them. I would plant more now that I know how terrific they are...
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| Candy C. |
Posted - Sep 20 2010 : 05:39:00 AM
Karen,
I also have a Keifer pear tree! I have a dwarf variety, it is only about six feet tall this year (third year) and I got over 50 pears! I thinned them in the spring and they were all a very nice size. I made pear butter which was very yummy, pear chutney, pear cobbler, apple-pear-cranberry relish and sold some at the Farmers Market. Even though they aren't as sweet as Bartlett pears, they were even good to just eat, very crispy. Several of the older people at the Farmers Market remembered them from when they were children as the pears that were grown by their parents and grandparents.
Candy C.
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| chessie |
Posted - Sep 19 2010 : 2:41:37 PM
HI KarenToo! Years ago I saved a recipe from for Pear CAKE (I call it PIE-CAKE) that I love! I now have a pear tree (accidentally, it was marked an apple... and, if you are interested the tree's story a reprint of that tale follows the recipe), and use them for this great recipe. Any pear variety will work.
My favorite pear recipe comes...
...from 10/7/97 issue of Family Circle magazine -Turns out Keiffer pears are "pearfect" for this cake!
Pear Cake
by Peggy Katalinich
Preheat oven 350 degrees
Batter:
6 tablespoons unsalted butter, at room temperature
2/3 cup packed light brown sugar
2 eggs
1/4 cup heavy cream
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon ground ginger
1 teaspoon finely chopped fresh ginger
1/4 teaspoon salt
Pears & topping:
2 ripe, but firm, pears
1 tablespoon unsalted butter, melted
2 tablespoons light brown sugar
3/4 cup heavy cream
1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
1 tablespoon confectioners' sugar
1. Coat a 10 inch pie plate with nonstick spray. (I use glass)
2. Prepare batter: Beat butter and sugar in a meduim size bowl until well blended. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. On low speed, beat in cream, flour, ground and fresh ginger and salt. Batter will be stiff. Spread into the prepared pie plate.
3. Prepare pears and topping: peel pears; cut each into quarters lengthwise; cut out cores. Slice each pear quarter crosswise into 1/4 inch thick slices, keeping shape of pear quarters. using a spatula, lift each quarter and arrange in batter, spoke wheel fashion & gently press into batter. Drizzle top with melted butter; sprinkle with brown sugar.
4. Bake 35 minutes, until lightly browned. Beat cream, ginger and sugar in bowl until stiff peaks form, serve cake warm with cream.
Reprint of my (Infamous) Vista Garden Club President's letter 2005 - VGC Cricket President’s letter Nov. 2005 ©Karen England
My mini apple orchard is just 4 years old and already its story rivals the best children’s fairy tale. Originally, I told my cousin who owns Sunshine Gardens Nursery hat I wanted to buy nine “Anna” apple trees for a spot I designed to be a tiny orchard. I wanted “Anna” apples because I have grown them successfully before and love the fruit. My cousin (who should have been a used car salesman) said he would give me a good deal (read “Free”) if I took some apple trees off his hands that he could not sell. These particular trees were originally a special order for a woman who reneged and, in me; he saw the golden (Dorsett) opportunity to unload what he could not sell to the public. Ah, the joys of family. The caveat was they were not all “Annas” and several trees were no longer marked. It was a “take them all or nothing” deal. Although they were not all the same variety or the variety I had initially wanted, “free” is hard to pass up, so I took them, & the orchard was planted.
To my delight, very early on, several of the trees produced fruit and, as a result, I was able to identify some of the unmarked varieties. Also, two of the original trees died (due to a gopher) and I wanted to replace them with my first choice, “Annas”, only to have my cousin talk me into more used cars, i.e. some “Golden Dorsetts” he had in overstock. Ok, I admit it - I’m easy, I took ‘em. By the 2nd year, I had identified all but one of the nine apple trees and all but the unknown tree were producing fruit.
It was obvious from the beginning that the unknown variety was very different from the rest, the quintessential ugly duckling. Gangly in growth, leaves with tip burn and struggling to adjust to orchard life. During the first two years, the apples were watered with an overhead spray until our garden help installed drip irrigation to the orchard. Almost immediately, the trees responded to the change with exponential growth, & the ugly duckling tree responded most of all, transforming before my eyes into the most glorious tree, no longer gangly, with healthy large green leaves and sweet white blossoms that reminded me of something but I didn’t know what. Then it bore fruit. Unbelievably, it isn’t an apple at all - it is a pear! Now I know what it reminded me of, the flowering pear trees that are planted all around our area. I was always told that fruiting pears do not do well in our climate so I would never have planted one deliberately and here I had one thriving. My ugly duckling apple has turned into a beautiful swan pear. This is my kind of gardening, exciting & sweet. When I’m out working in the yard, I sing this little ditty:
“In the first year of Orcharding,
my Cousin gave to me,
Five “Golden Dorsetts”,
Two “Anna” apples,
One yummy “Braeburn”
and a swan of lovely pear tree.”
I bet you can guess what kind of pie I’m making for Thanksgiving this year…
Wishing you all happy gardening and a blessed Thanksgiving,
Karen
2009 P.S. I have identified the pear! - Kieffer Pear Pyrus communis x P. pyrifolia
Here is what I have learned about the Kieffer. It is the old standard pear cultivar known in antique gardens of early American explorers. An oriental pear with large yellow fruit. The white flesh is crisp, juicy, with a coarse texture, preferable for pear preserves, and freshly cooked pear sauce. The Kieffer pear is late ripening in September/October, in time for Thanksgiving. Very hardy and tolerates hot climates. Self-fertile (but plant two trees to ensure pollination) (Zones 4 - 9).
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| natesgirl |
Posted - Sep 18 2010 : 2:43:04 PM
I took a bunch of pears, sliced them and then coated them with cornstarch. Threw them in an unbaked pie crust and topped them with brown sugar. It took about an hour or so to bake, but it tasted great.
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| urban chickie |
Posted - Sep 17 2010 : 5:22:30 PM
Pear tarts are really good. Also, harder pears can be wonderful poached. You can make a spiced water poaching liquid, or even better yet use a good red wine or port. Poached pears are great alone or with vanilla ice cream. I'm getting hungry here....
Catherine
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| vintagejenta |
Posted - Sep 17 2010 : 11:07:58 AM
I made pear gingerbread cake the other day. It was pretty good. Just cut up pears and fold them into gingerbread cake batter.
My mom also makes a fantastic pear and walnut salad. Not what you'd think. She uses mixed greens, sliced bosc pears (not sure what kind you have), walnuts, and just a little walnut oil sprinkled on top. So good!
You can also make pear butter in a crock pot.
Could you dry them? Pear ginger scones would be fantastic, but the pears would have to be dried to make scones. I could also see making a pear puree and making "applesauce" cake with pear sauce!
Too many pears are a good problem to have! :)
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| SheilaC |
Posted - Sep 14 2010 : 06:48:31 AM
We love canned pears--they're SOOOOOOOO yummy! Also pear jam is amazingly true pear taste, and so simple to make. We also like pear sauce (just like applesauce, but made with pears)
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| Ga Girl |
Posted - Sep 14 2010 : 06:45:36 AM
Cool thanks for the good ideas!
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| kristin sherrill |
Posted - Sep 14 2010 : 06:33:20 AM
Hey Karen. I just make a syrup with water, honey, cinnamon and cloves. Biol it and pour over the cut up pears. Seal and hot water bath them. They are so good.
I picked a bag of very hard pears yesterday up the road where we walk. I think it's still kind of early here for them. They are hard as rocks. ANd really big and heavy. I have them in a brown bag so hopefully they will ripen. There are a few more trees I have my eye on. Hopefully next year my 3 trees will not get fire blight and give me some good Bartlett pears.
Kris
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| tinaberry |
Posted - Sep 14 2010 : 05:55:46 AM
I hate to see anything wasted. Someone is always offering us something. I make pear butter, I make it just like I make apple butter, it's alway a hit with my family. You could also make jelly or can them for pies. I make anything with them that I would apples.
Good Luck
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