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["Kieran &/or Donna" <holycow@frontiernet.net>]

I love the pear pies and cobblers I've made with the old Pineapple pear. 
The traditional use for Kieffers around here is to make "pear honey".  They 
chop or grate the pears, add an equal volume of sugar and wait overnight for 
the sugar to draw out the liquid.  Then they boil and seal like jam.  BORING 
in my opinion.  But I did make up a recipe to use up the little sour 
Chaenomeles quinces, with equal amount of grated pear and flavored like 
apple butter.    Donna