Easy Pear Preserves
Source of Recipe
Marla
List of Ingredients
Easy Pear Preserves
7 quarts pears, sliced
6 cups water
9 cups granulated sugar
12 slices lemon 3 lemons sliced
Recipe
Wash and pare fruit. Cook until tender in water. Remove fruit and make a syrup of the liquid and sugar. Add fruit to partially cooled syrup and bring gently to a boil. Add lemon slices. Boil rapidly until fruit is clear and tender.
Let stand in syrup to cool.
Remove lemon. Ladle fruit into sterilized jars. Reheat syrup to boiling and pour over fruit. Seal each jar as filled.
Yields 16 (8 ounce) jars.
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