A pyramid of pearsI adjusted a recipe for canning pears to make them vanilla pears. I was pleasantly surprised how they turned out. I thought that because of the long (25 minute) processing time, the pears might get mushy, fortunately they didn't. Here is my recipe:
About 8 pounds of pears
4 tbs vanilla
4.5 cups water
2/3 cup sugar
Peel, core and quarter the pears (a melon baller works very well to core them). Stir together the water, sugar and vanilla in a large pot and bring to a boil. Add the pears and boil them in the vanilla syrup for 5 minutes. Pack the jars with pears, using tongs and then pour the hot syrup over the pears leaving 1/2" headspace. Process canned pears for 25 minutes (20 minutes if your altitude is below 1,000 feet)
Mix any remaining syrup with seltzer water for an Italian soda. :)
Yield: 6 pints.
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7 comments:
where are you shooting this stuff?
a friend of mine gave me a bunch of pears and i didn't know what the heck i was doing. so i went on line and looked allday. well i finally came across your recp. and i must say i've never canned before. but this recp is so easy that i couln't go wrong. all my friends loved the job i did. so thank you so very much for the recp and the great vanilla pears.
I'm so glad you liked it beth!
Thank you for such a simplistic receipe! I can't wait to try it this weekend. We have 2 large pear trees that are going wild this year,and I hate to see them wasted. I know we will thank you this winter when we open the vanilla pears!! Thanks again.
I am wondering what your altitude is for this canning recipe. I recently started canning pears and have needed to add 10 minutes processing time to the recipes because I live at 4200 ft. Do I need to add that on top of your 25 minutes or are you already at altitude?
I am in Phoenix which is at about 1200 feet, so it sounds like you might need some altitude adjustment.
These are delicious! We used your recipe this summer, and now that we are eating them all, I thought I would come back and say thanks :)
Beth
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