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Started by Magicman, October 22, 2014, 09:31:35 AM

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Magicman

My Mom planted a Pear tree in ~1937. 


 
It has gotten rugged looking and has survived much, but it does still produce a few pears each year.

I picked about 5 gallons this past Saturday and Pat made some Pear Preserves.


 
The first batch cooking.


 
I need a hot buttered biscuit.   food6
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sawguy21

I have been eating a lot of pears this summer, Karen doesn't care for them. They also make a very nice brandy ;)
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Magicman

Raw Pears will also cause gas.   :D
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hardtailjohn

Nothing tastes better than "right off the tree"!!! 
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They are so juicy that the juice runs down your arms and drips off of your elbows.   :D
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21incher

Those Pear Preserves look great and now you can enjoy the flavor year round. I love pears when they are in season around me. The Seckel Pears are my favorite.
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luvmexfood

Magicman. My mom made some pearbutter years ago. Like applebutter but with pears and it had just a few pineapple chunks in it. Some of the best eating on a hot bisquit. Yum.
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Magicman

Hey, that is an idea about the pineapple chunks.   :)
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BradMarks

Opened and finished the last jar of pear butter this past weekend. Hot biscuits and pear butter. Need a bigger jar ;D

Magicman

Pat made biscuits tonight.  A couple of fried eggs, bacon, and buttered biscuits smothered with fresh Pear preserves.  MMmmmm.   food3
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Al_Smith

I don't know exactly what kind it is ,either bosc or bartlett you used to find in fence rows and pasture fields .Hard as a rock until about late September or the first frost .

Turns yellow with a mottled skin .High sugar content doesn't keep long maybe 6-8 weeks in the "fresh" state .One of the most tastey pears I ever ate in the fresh ripe state . Which is only way I care for pears ,canned don't like .

Magicman

She finished up on the preserve making today, so I had hot biscuits and pears again tonight.   food6
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sandhills

Quote from: Magicman on October 22, 2014, 01:41:42 PM
They are so juicy that the juice runs down your arms and drips off of your elbows.   :D
And the problem is????  :D  I think I'd sweet talk her into another 5 gallons with another road trip if I was you  ;)

thurlow

Quote from: Al_Smith on October 23, 2014, 08:48:07 PM
I don't know exactly what kind it is ,either bosc or bartlett you used to find in fence rows and pasture fields .Hard as a rock until about late September or the first frost .
Around here, those would be Kieffers;  very gritty and grainy and better for preserves than eating fresh.  Kept 5 trees when we pushed up the orchard.  Just finished peeling 2 x 5 gallon buckets of 'em;  probably slice 'em tomorrow night and make preserves Saturday.
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I knew a guy one time that sent his buddy a jar of homemade Pear preserves. Just saying.  ;D
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Magicman

We plan to go to the Cabin tomorrow & Saturday and will try to pick some more.  That old tree is really only a snag, but it keeps on trying.  I wish that I had paid more attention when Mom told me what variety it was.  (Actually, Mom and Dad both told me lots of stuff and I was not paying enough attention.)   :-\

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Buck

Backstrap would probably fit on the plate with the biscuit and preserves. Just a thought.
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BradMarks

Backstrap - that's what I was thinking!  Some of the tastiest venison I ever had, the deer had access to apple trees. As they say (morphed) "they don't fall far from the tree" ;D fudd-smiley

SPIKER

My pears are doing OK this year, two biggest have a couple bushel full on them and the small one had a few.   They are Bartlet my two biggest trees, (Pear SHOULD) have a different species of pears to cross pollinate for best fruiting.   My smaller trees (planted 5+ years apart) are of two different varieties one Bostic & forget the other one.    BOTH of the two smaller trees are ones that are supposed to cross with the Bartlet's the best.

I would love to have time to can some myself but been simply eating one on way by that is on ground & ripping up this time of year... 8) 8)
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Magicman

Pat and I finished picking the Pear tree today.  Maybe 3-4 more gallons.   ;D
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The last of the Pears got cooked down today and are now preserves.   food6
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thurlow

Finished our preserves last Saturday;  21 pints.  Swmbo'd will probably give several away for Christmas presents.  She makes little gift baskets with the preserves, muscadine and blueberry jelly. 


 
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POSTON WIDEHEAD

Y'all could auction off some of dem dare Pear preserves and not hog'm all to yourselves.  ;D
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