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[Karen Tillou <arboretum@homeorchardsociety.org>]

dried asian pears are fantastic, arguably better than even the european pears, what with their little grains of sugary goodness!

i juice them and can the juice, and also use the juice to help sweeten up cider or perry that i am fermenting.  

for canning fresh juice, i clean and oven sterilize glass quart juice jars (275ºF oven for 45 minutes) while i heat the juice to 180ºF (don't boil it or you ruin the flavors).  put hot juice into hot jars and seal the lid back on tight, and you'll hear the little pings of sucked down, vacuum-tight lids in no time.

the hot jars method also works with any other sweet, acidic fruity-goo you might make:  pour boiling hot syrups, jellies, jams, fruit butters into oven hot jars, and seal the lids and they will vacuum seal themselves, without the 5 minute boiling water bath.  i've used the method for all my jams, juices and syrups for the last 10 years to no ill effect.

karen tillou

oregon city, OR - zone 8a and wet

On Sep 10, 2008, at 10:14 AM, William C. Garthright wrote:

This is the first year that my Asian Pear has produced and it was a

bumper crop!  Now I am trying to find a way to use them and to save

the wonderful taste to enjoy throughout the winter.  Has anyone had

eperience with cooking, freezing, canning them?

Congratulations!

I can't help you with recipes, but one of the reasons I planted Asian
pears was because they're supposed to keep so well. I suppose it depends
on the variety, but I've heard they'll keep for months in the
refrigerator vegetable crisper (or, probably, in plastic bags in the
regular section of the refrigerator). That's assuming you have the room,
of course.

I can't say from personal experience. This was my first year with fruit,
too, but I got four pears off one tree (not quite ripe yet) and one off
another. Not exactly anything needing storage! :-)

Bill
Lincoln, NE (zone 5)

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resort of a scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but
inferior lexicographer, I beg to submit that it is the first. - Ambrose
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