A picture is worth a 1,000 words. You earned your bragging rights. Well done. I love all of the helpful people on this forum.

Very, very nice !!

They look delicious!! I'm anxiously awaiting the pears my friend always shares when they ripen. You gave me a great idea! Lori

Oh, those look and sound so yummy. Wish I had a good source for pears. Guess I'll have to break down and buy some if I want to have some great canned pears like yours.

Thanks I wish I could share with you all, I think these won't stick around for very long and I will need to make more. So come on by for coffee and pears over pancakes or mixed in plain yogurt.
bcskye I know you have sources for other yummy fruit, we can't grow cherries, apples and some other cool loving fruits. So I can be jealous of you to. Lol :o)Deanna

Deanna, those are inspirational! Pears are now on my list this year. Beautiful photo!

Sue

You and I both have our pears come in about the same time, which seems to be earlier than other folks. Here's what I put up, and you might want to try some of these.

Canned pear halves, also did quarters and diced for other batches.

Pear Honey (So Easy To Preserve, page 225)

Pear Sauce (Ball Blue Book), page 22
I could live without this, but I don't eat a lot of apple sauce, either.

Pear leather (after I realized I didn't care all that much for pear sauce, I used the pulp in my excalibur dehydrator and made some good tasting fruit leather. I roll & cut into tootsie-roll size chunks and wrap in parchment paper. As good as candy.

Pear Jelly (Ball Complete, page 111)
Very, very good. Tastes like apple jelly. Made two batches of this.

Linda Lou's Apple Pie Jam

Pear Juice (Ball Blue Book, page 21)
for drinking...and adding to iced tea

Pear Preserves (So Easy to preserve, page 40), two batches

Pear Mincemeat (Ball Blue Book, page 21)
based on licking the spoon afterwards, will make really great pies, tarts, etc.

More canned pears...

And...for the piece de resistance...
Upside-down Gingerbread pear cake. Wow, yummy!

Still on my list...more canned pears (I had no idea I'd like these so much since I don't care all that much for store-bought canned pears), ginger pear preserves, brandied pears (the Spirited Pears recipe in the Ball Complete book), and probably some more pear honey and pear jam and/or preserves.

I'm guessing I still have about 120-150 lbs of pears left to process. All picked and waiting on me. I'm pretty tired. I have also given away a few boxes of pears.

BTW...I found out my pear tree is the Pineapple Pear variety, which is an old-timer cooking pear often found on old homesteads and farms. I live on the family homestead and this pear tree has been here for a very long time. Your pear looks just like mine.

I beat the squirrels this year, yay!

Jill

My grandmother used to make pear honey with those old timey hard cooking pears. Her recipe had crushed pineapple and maraschino cherries. I'm not usually a fan of the cherries but they just taste right in pear honey. That's some good stuff.

Jill I just finished another batch of the brandied pears. Boy is my kitchen hot. Now for the clean up. Wow you have alot of pears to process I sure hope you have help, you are going to be busy for sometime. The next one on my list is the pear butter page 31 in the BBB 100th anniversary edition. I need to buy more jars. I just had a bumper crop of slicing cucumbers and since I am so new to canning I can't decide what to do with them before they go bad, mostly I have just been giving them away. I hope my pepper plants start to really producing I have a great recipe for them.
Don't wear yourself out canning pears you may hate them by the end of your canning project. lol.. :o)Deanna

I was worn out before I started the pears! At least this will be it for a while. Summer garden is down to just a few things that don't need canning...just eating fresh.

I plan to do a few more things with the pears and give away the rest. This was my first year canning and it has been a lot of work. I'm just glad I found this forum first and started off with the advice and knowledge that steered me towards the NCHFP and safe preserving.

The pear honey recipe I used doesn't have the pineapple or cherries in it...just pear juice and sugar, with an optional lemon. The incredible thing is that the pear juice is made from the leftover peels and pear pieces from the other things I was making. The book(So Easy to Preserve) just said to refrigerate them until ready to use. I couldn't believe the recipe when I saw that, and my husband was really skeptical, but it looks and tastes great--just like pear flavored flavored honey. A bit thinner than honey, but I refrigerated the one I opened and it thickened up just like honey. It was a great way to use what would normally go on the compost pile, and put my new super-duper Roma fruit and vegetable strainer to the test!