Grandmothers Pear Preserves -2021

My grandmother is 89 years old and I’m going to pick these hard pears from her trees this weekend. I usually make brandy pears but will add some preserves to my to do list.

We had a pear tree like this in our backyard. Mom had an oldtimey grinder that clamped to the table. She made “green pear and onion relish”. We hadda open all the windows and turn on the fans, the onions were so loud. I remember climbing that big ole tree and eating a few of those pears. Can’t remember what they tasted like: musta been hungry. I do remember that I thought they were so tough I thought my teeth might get pulled out. Got a whopper of a bellyache too

One thing I distinctly remember about pears is that they dull your knife faster than you can sharpen it. Labor of love

It’s a Kiefer canning pear. I can them in slices for pies in sugar syrup. I also sugar cores and peelings and cook them down and strain it and have pear syrup. My husband ‘s mother made only pear preserves!!!

Oh my goodness, this looks exactly like the pear preserves my grandma Allan used to make in Alabama. I have searched far and wide to try to find a recipe that's even close to what she did and I believe I found it! Thank you brother for this blessed recipe! It's beautiful and I can't wait to try it. Unfortunately my grandma didn't leave any of her recipes at least not that I know of anyway. But thank you so much for sharing this, it takes me back to a memory that was very cherished, homemade pear preserves and homemade biscuits with butter. Now that's a treasure! 🙏❤️

Love Albert

I like your Dirtrooster hat. He’s quite a guy. My office friend was dating a country loving guy for a while, and even though the relationship didn’t eventually solidify, the lifestyle change she met did, in that to complement his hunting gifts she became a diehard State Fair food entrant. She preserved the rock hard pears of her neighbor, who used to call her up when the fallen pears started interfering with his lawn care. She scouted out unknown persimmon and plum trees in her suburban quarter to be transformed in mason jars. She eventually inherited all the family recipes which had been lurking with her mother until someone showed interest. Anyway, your grandmother’s pear preserves reminded me, for which I thank you. Maybe there’s something intrinsic about pears that develop family values. It was a good video. Maybe try some grated ginger root and a little cinnamon in there. I have it on good authority that that kind of addition makes preserves stand out on the bench. Although the sheer fact of existing at all should make any preserve memorable anymore.

Made these one time and once it set up I could not get it out of the jar. It turned into hard candy. Excellent video!

These look like my grandmother's pearl preserves! They are dark and delicious! Thanks for showing how to do it

I like the last jalapeño peppers of the year. I let em stay on and turn red. I dry and smoke em.

That is a great name Albert. Thanks for sharing this video. Have a wonderful day

Don't rely on YouTube to preserve your stories for those girls. Keep your own recorded library of all your videos.

Thank you for sharing your pear preserves preps. It’s great to share with the children about family.

Your video is like a movie! Love it. Thank you for sharing. I plan to do some pear preserves next week. I live in Canada and my pear tree over produced this year. They were green like yours but now getting bigger and ripe.

I truly enjoyed this. So many memories. Well I bought some pears but as a child we had our own pear trees.

Looks like a great product and I just picked my pears. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for the tutorial on how to preserves Pear

I’m going to can pear preserves this weekend. You do it exactly like my family has always done it! Great video!

I made pear preserves from my tree yesterday and they came out perfect. I went by your recipe. Excellent !!!!!

Someone is right & someone is wrong...either these are a kieffer or a bartlet...can't be both. I planted 2 pear trees in my backyard about 20 years ago...one was always loaded with fruit...soft and easy to eat right from the tree. I gave my lawn guy a bucket full, he immediately ate it and said that was the best pear he had ever eaten. I think it was a Kieffer pear but not 100%. The other tree never produced (Bartlett) only a few hard pears. Now, after Hurricane Michael (October 2018) the good producer died never came back, However, the other tree is now loaded with an incredible amount of pears...amazingly I'm inspired to can some pears. Instead of giving pears away...it will be preserves. Thanks for showing me how to do this. I never knew. P.S. I'm not sure the names as the i.d. tags faded years ago. Next time I'll label them on something more permanent.