If I had to guess, by how difficult it was to carry, I'd say this is about 50 pounds of pears!! Here is a picture of one of the average sized pears in my hand, to give some perspective.
Aren't they beautiful! We are going to eat some fresh, as we, just this year, have learned to appreciate fresh pears. The rest is becoming pear sauce. Here are pictures of the first batch.
It is just delicious and this batch filled 2 and 1/2 pints. I have more pears cooking in the crock pot and another saucepan right now and I hope to can them this afternoon. I'm thinking that this second batch, which is larger than the first, will fill at least 4 pints. These two batches have gotten us only about 1/3 of the way through the basket of pears! I'm so excited - the boys love applesauce muffins (we have been using pear sauce in them lately) and applesauce cake (which we can also use pear sauce to make). I am especially pleased because food security is so important to me - the more we can be self sufficient, the less we need to depend on the national food system and the less likely we are to be affected by outbreaks.
3 comments:
I wish someone would be give me some pears! I like to make cinnamon pears, which is just your basic canned pears with cinnamon red hots melted into the syrup. They are so good with a piece of toast for breakfast!
I am planning on canning pears this weekend. Haven't decided what recipe to use, but I can't put it off any longer, because next week I have to start in on apples. I have such a feeling of accomplishment when it is all done.
Oh, I love pear sauce! What a wonderful gift :)
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