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Pears!!!

Mominohio — Thu, 05 Oct 2017 00:27:41 GMT

Last month was pear month.

Canned about 40 pints, picture is just part of them.

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Mominohio — Thu, 05 Oct 2017 00:29:00 GMT

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NickNack — Thu, 05 Oct 2017 00:30:26 GMT

They look wonderful and like it was a lot of hard work! I love pears.

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pupwhipped — Thu, 05 Oct 2017 00:30:42 GMT

A thing of beauty!

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gizmogal — Thu, 05 Oct 2017 00:34:02 GMT

I LOVE pears. I have no preserving talents. Wish I could buy a couple of those jars from you. Look delicious.

Bosc pears are my favorite. Thanks for posting those beauties. I just put those on my supermarket list to pick up tomorrow. Yum.

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GCR18 — Thu, 05 Oct 2017 00:34:37 GMT

Good job.

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Sweetbay magnolia — Thu, 05 Oct 2017 00:39:30 GMT

Yum! I love slow cooking with chicken, pears, ginger, and soy (and hoisin sauce). I wish I had some of those canned pears in the pantry.

Hubby loves fresh pears in his lunchbox.

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Sweetbay magnolia — Thu, 05 Oct 2017 00:43:43 GMT

What kind of trees do you have, @Mominohio, and are they maintenance intensive? Is the harvesting difficult? Your fruits are lovely.

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Kachina624 — Thu, 05 Oct 2017 00:46:25 GMT

@Mominohio When it's all done, and you must get a great feeling of satisfaction looking at all your sparkling jars. Just peeling all those pears would be a gargantuan task. Good thing hubby helps you.

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Lapdog — Thu, 05 Oct 2017 00:47:43 GMT

Good Work!

I made David's Pear Salsa yesterday. It is so fresh and delicious.

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phoenixbrd — Thu, 05 Oct 2017 01:21:57 GMT

@Mominohio There look beautiful and tasty...what a lucky family!

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kjae — Thu, 05 Oct 2017 01:43:28 GMT

As Mr. Rogers used to say, "Won't you be my neighbor?"

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Carmie — Thu, 05 Oct 2017 03:11:24 GMT

Wow, that's a lot of pears. Where I grew up, we had a massive pear tree that produced thousands of winter pears. They were beautiful looking, but as hard as rocks.

We used to harvest them in the fall and wrap each pear in newspaper and store them in a cool, dark place. We ate them all winter long.

i love pears, but my DH doesn't care for them at all, so I don't have them too often.

I wish we had a pear tree in our yard, but I only have a small cherry tree that produces a massive amount of sour cherries. I have a freezer full.

Enjoy eating those pears, they look delicious.

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DecorDiva — Thu, 05 Oct 2017 11:46:13 GMT

@Mominohio - Please send some of your energy my way! I've done some canning in the past, and it isn't easy. Do you grow the pears? What a wonderful way to eat healthy.

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DREAMON — Thu, 05 Oct 2017 13:56:29 GMT

mominohio,

Your home is so warm, friendly, and inviting...and those pears just add to it.

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Mominohio — Thu, 05 Oct 2017 17:19:50 GMT

@DecorDiva wrote:
@Mominohio - Please send some of your energy my way! I've done some canning in the past, and it isn't easy. Do you grow the pears? What a wonderful way to eat healthy.

@DecorDiva

We do indeed grow the pears. We have four trees. Three are alike and those pears are better for eating, The other tree is the one I can from as they simply hold up better in the canning process (although I have canned both types).

The ones pictured in the bowl are the ones I canned but I don't know the variety!

As with all gardens and orchards, some years are better than others for yield and this year our pears (and apples) were huge, bountiful (trees sagging and dripping with fruit) and those large pieces of fruit are so much easier to work with in processing.

I think canning is a lot of work too. The prep and the clean up alone are exhausting sometimes when doing large amounts of food.

But very satisfying.

I don't can as much as I used to, but this year the fruit was just so very good that I couldn't let it go to waste and not make good use of it. We don't normally get as much or as good or as large fruit as we got this year.

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DecorDiva — Thu, 05 Oct 2017 18:53:45 GMT

@Mominohio - your canning efforts made me think of when we used to make applebutter on the stove and had to stir and stir and stir! Now you can use a slow cooker and I bet it comes out just as good. Maybe you should think about making pear butter. I buy peach butter and it is delicious.