Do you like canned fruit? I want to share our Easy Canned Pears recipe. Above all, it is one of the most delicious cans of fresh fruit to enjoy in the winter season.
Pear is a fruit that we find fresh and well-ripened in this season. So, we are in time to preserve it for winter. By the way, choose your favorite pear variety and enjoy this delicious and fragrant compote in the cold season.
Like canned Peach and canned plum, canned pear can make from the beginning of the summer season. In other words, we can find the first varieties of pears ripen from June until late fall when we can still find fresh pears for sale or at the trees of our yards.
Furthermore, it is good to use ripe fruits but still solid pears, undamaged, and without infection to make pear compost.
Therefore, it is good that the fruits harvest on the same day to use for compost.
Also, you can prepare compost with whole pears if you have organic and small pears grown in your garden. On the contrary, it is good to peel the pears and cut them into pieces, eliminating the middle part of the seeds of the fruit.
Below, you will find the ingredients for 2 kg of pears. Meanwhile, the amount of sugar can be reduced or increased depending on the sweetness of the fruit. Also, the syrup quantity you will prepare may be excessive, considering how tight you fill the jars with chopped pears.
Ingredients
- 2 kg of fresh pears
- 1 liter of water
- 400 g of sugar
- 1 lemon
- cinnamon stick, anise (glikanxo star) for flavor
Directions
How To Make Pear Compost
- First, sterilize the jars by boiling them for 20 minutes in a pot of water or a preheated oven at 200 degrees for 10 minutes. The lids must be new.
- As a start, we will wash the pears well and let them drain from the water. Then, peel the pears and cut them in the middle and quarters, cleaning the part of the seeds.
- Next, peeled pears will be placed in a bowl of water with lemon juice so that the pears do not oxidize and brown.
- In the meantime, we will prepare the syrup. Put the amount of water and sugar in a saucepan and set it on medium heat, stirring to dissolve the sugar. Also, add a cinnamon stick, anise, or other aromas if you prefer.
- Let it simmer for 3 minutes after the syrup boils.
- Meanwhile, we place the fruits in sterilized jars by carefully arranging them to put inside as many fruits as possible.
- Then, when you are ready, we will add the prepared syrup. Also, we will tempt the jars so that the air bubbles that may be inside come out.
- Moreover, close the jars well by tightening the lids tightly and turn the jars upside down.
Sterilization and Preservation
- Once the jars cool, we will place them in a pot of cold water wrapped in a napkin so that they do not bump into us during boiling.
- Then, put them on the boil and let them simmer for another 5-10 minutes after the water starts to boil. Next, remove them from the water and let them grow cool, upside down, covered with a table napkin.
- In other terms, when you will add the syrup completely cooled, we close the jars well. Also, try them upside down whether they flow or not. We will put them in the pot with their heads up. As well, the jars must cover fully by water, and we will boil them for another 5-10 minutes after the water boils.
- Then, we will remove them from the water and turn them upside down until they cool to create an airtight seal. Also, we can remove the jars from the water. Then, let them switch off even with their heads up covered well.
- Also, if the pears are durable, you can choose to boil them for 5 minutes in the beginning together with the syrup and then follow the procedure for filling the jars, closing, and sterilizing as we explained above.
- Furthermore, to check if jars close rightly, keep in mind that a well-closed canned jar should have a vacuum lid, not inflated, or click if you rub them with your finger.
- Finally, store the jars in a dark and dry place. And, once opened, we consume them directly, or we can store them in the refrigerator for 2-3 days.
Bon Appetit!
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