Apple sauce but with pears-- Possible?

[ams3651]

Harley's girl :

I peeled and used an apple corer. Then I made a syrup of sugar, water, and cinnamon and then ladled the hot syrup over the sliced pears and cold packed them! They turned out really good.

my gram does that every year, we joked that my grandfather planted the tree 56 years ago just so my son would have pears. They are late pears, not even ready yet, and they are grainy but we love them. She uses a very light (sugar) syrup. I think you could make sauce just like you do apple sauce. But if you can halves as well you will have them at hand for pear pie, cobbler, to use in oatmeal or snack cakes, etc.​

 

[ORChick]

I made a lot of pear sauce just a few weeks ago. The pears were very ripe, and not gritty at all. I just cut them into small pieces, and put them in my crockpot with a little sugar, some cinnamon and fresh ginger (9 cups pear pieces, 1/2 cup sugar, 1 tsp each cinnamon and grated ginger) and let it simmer away on LO until cooked (about 6 hours for me). And then it went (hot) into clean pint jars, with new 2 piece lids, and were processed in a hot water bath for 10 minutes. If you would rather have it smooth just run it through a food mill after cooking. Delicious!

 

[LilPeeps]

Pearsauce sounds good!

 

[Harley's girl]

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my gram does that every year, we joked that my grandfather planted the tree 56 years ago just so my son would have pears. They are late pears, not even ready yet, and they are grainy but we love them. She uses a very light (sugar) syrup. I think you could make sauce just like you do apple sauce. But if you can halves as well you will have them at hand for pear pie, cobbler, to use in oatmeal or snack cakes, etc.

I made a light syrup as well. Now the thought of using it in a "pear" crisp like apple crisp makes my mouth water! Last year I canned apple pie filling and I use it all the time for apple crisp instead.

I have lots of pear trees and every year I tell myself you are going to can some this year and never do! Well, this year I did! And they are delicious!!!

 

[MissPrissy]

Soft ripened pears make beautiful pear butter. I did pear preserves and butter this year. Good stuff.