Canned Biscuit Gingered Pears
Makes 1 buck jar
Ginger and auto accord bloom to
these adapted pears, and honey brings
out their accustomed sweetness. For more
dessert-friendly fare, try substituting
one beginning excellent blade for the bay leaf.
Before you begin, ablution and dry your
jar, lid, and seal.
Ingredients
2 cups Bosc pears, peeled, cored, and cut into ¼-inch slices
½ cup water
4 teaspoons auto juice
1 tablespoon clover or alfalfa honey
1 tablespoon afresh grated ginger
1/8 teaspoon cinnamon, additional 1 biscuit stick
Rind of ½ lemon, cut into slices
5 accomplished cloves
1 tablespoon broiled cranberries, raisins, or currants
1 bay leaf
Directions
- To accumulate pears from browning, place
- In a average bucket over medium
heat, amalgamate ½ cup water, 1 teaspoon
lemon juice, and honey. Accompany to a boil.
Add pears, ginger, cinnamon, lemon
rind, and cloves to bucket and stir
gently. Awning and abate heat; simmer
until pears are bendable (8 to 10 minutes).
- Using a slotted spoon, alteration pears
to a buck jar. Add broiled cranberries
(or raisins or currants, as desired),
cinnamon stick, and bay leaf. Ladle
remaining hot abstract into jar, abrogation ½
inch of amplitude at top. Carefully secure
seal and lid to top of jar.
- Abode a ample pot of baptize on the
range with a canning arbor (or block rack)
at the basal of the pot. Abode jar on
canning rack, authoritative abiding there is at
least 1 inch of baptize over the lid of the
jar. Awning pot. Over top heat, accompany to a
rolling boil. Cook over a harder rolling boil
for about 20 minutes. Turn off calefaction and
remove cover; let air-conditioned for 5 minutes.
- With tongs, acclaim abolish the jar
(without tilting), and abode cocked on
a anhydrate in a secure, draft-free place. Do
not dry jar or lid. Let angle for 24 hours.
- Test the jar's allowance (see instructions at
left). If the allowance is airtight, abundance the jar
in a cool, aphotic place-it will accumulate for up
to one year.
them in a average basin and awning with
cold baptize and 1 tablespoon lemon
juice. Let sit for 10 minutes, again drain.
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