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I thought I'd submit this divine recipe for Pear Honey, very easy to make and an excellent substitute for real honey, makes you look forward to porridge in the mornings. It has a very delicate flowery, almost perfumed flavour.
Pears
Sugar
Water
Take off blossom end of small pears, quarter fruit and put in pan with water to cover, simmer till very soft strain through jelly bag.
Put juice in pan with 3/4lb sugar per pint of liquid and bring to the boil, simmer to thin syrup.
The simmering can take quite a while, sometimes when I make it I can get it thicker than at other times. However it works out it is delicious especially as with porridge, yoghurt or icecream.
I've made eight jars today and that will substitute for what would have been £28 of honey. It's cost me around £6 to make as alas didn't get free pears this year but did spot loads on the reduced shelf at Tesco. These were conference and I left them for a week to soften.
As a bonus you can put the remaining pulp through a sieve to make pear butter and the last bonus is all the remains for the compost heap.
I got this from Beryl Wood's excellent Let's Preserve It which as you can see above is pre-decimal. I wondered about buying another copy that isn't falling to bits and on Abebooks there's one copy and that's £75!! Mine cost 40p in 1970. Well worth getting hold of if you ever find one, absolutely filled to the brim with very good preserving recipes.
Sue
I thought I'd submit this divine recipe for Pear Honey, very easy to make and an excellent substitute for real honey, makes you look forward to porridge in the mornings. It has a very delicate flowery, almost perfumed flavour.
Pears
Sugar
Water
Take off blossom end of small pears, quarter fruit and put in pan with water to cover, simmer till very soft strain through jelly bag.
Put juice in pan with 3/4lb sugar per pint of liquid and bring to the boil, simmer to thin syrup.
The simmering can take quite a while, sometimes when I make it I can get it thicker than at other times. However it works out it is delicious especially as with porridge, yoghurt or icecream.
I've made eight jars today and that will substitute for what would have been £28 of honey. It's cost me around £6 to make as alas didn't get free pears this year but did spot loads on the reduced shelf at Tesco. These were conference and I left them for a week to soften.
As a bonus you can put the remaining pulp through a sieve to make pear butter and the last bonus is all the remains for the compost heap.
I got this from Beryl Wood's excellent Let's Preserve It which as you can see above is pre-decimal. I wondered about buying another copy that isn't falling to bits and on Abebooks there's one copy and that's £75!! Mine cost 40p in 1970. Well worth getting hold of if you ever find one, absolutely filled to the brim with very good preserving recipes.
Sue
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