[NAFEX] What do you do with pears?

road's end farm organic101 at linkny.com
Mon Sep 10 09:07:26 EDT 2007


On Sep 10, 2007, at 8:40 AM, Jim Fruth wrote:

>     Pears are too bland for jelly so we're at a loss as to what to do 
> with
> the 60+ pounds of pear fruit that we harvested from our trees.  If you 
> had a
> them and you were in the jelly making/selling business, what would you 
> do
> with pears?

Canned spiced pear halves (with cinnamon and nutmeg, for instance; and 
if I remember right how I used to make these, also some sugar. I can 
try to find the recipe if you want.). Pear pies.

I don't know why more people don't make pear pie. Pears make great pie. 
Fill up the pie crust with sliced pears; add sugar to taste and 
according to the sweetness of the particular pears, a little flour 
according to the juiciness of the particular pears, a little cinnamon 
and nutmeg; bake like apple pie. (Admittedly you can't market these 
like jelly; but if you have a local market, I think they would sell.)

--Rivka
Finger Lakes NY; zone 5 mostly
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: text/enriched
Size: 978 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/private/nafex/attachments/20070910/8f0dc37b/attachment.bin 


More information about the nafex mailing list