Monday, September 27, 2010

Canning Pears

On the way home from Colorado this past weekend, we stayed in Grand Junction, CO overnight.  In the morning, we went to the nearby town of Pallisade where there a lot of fruit farms.  We found some wonderful pears and bought two boxes to take home and bottle.   Fortunately, the pears were a little green; so we were able to wait until Monday to put them up.  They were just perfect--nice and juicy and sweet.  Chuck cut them in half and cored them, and I peeled and packed them.  Then we processed them for 30 minutes in a boiling water bath on our Camp Chef out on the deck.  Everything worked beautifully, and before long, we had 23 1/2 quarts all done.   We listened to Mormon Tabernacle Choir music as we worked, and the time went quickly.  It was really kind of fun working together on this project.  Now we will be able to enjoy home canned pears this winter.

4 comments:

  1. I love pears! I think they are my favorite canned fruit.

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  2. I dried two boxes of pears this season. My family loves them. I expect Hallie and Nick in a couple of weeks to make elderberry jelly. It's fun to work together.

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  3. I love them too, Delores. Do you still have lots of fruit farms nearby? I remember Brentwood as being a huge producer of wonderful apricots years ago.

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  4. I have never dried pears. How do you do it? I wish I had family nearby to work on projects together. I miss that. Where do you get your elderberries?

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