Tonight or tommorow I am loading up on two trees worth of pears. And of course cant find the recipe I want.

Once apon a time here I remember seeing mention of Pears in Vanilla Sauce? I really want to try these... is it just canned with a simple syrup with vanilla added? I found these recipes and wanted to see if they are safe. And if this would be safe for BWB as I am not setup yet for pressure canner.

Vanilla pears

About 8 pounds of pears

4 tbs vanilla

4.5 cups water

2/3 cup sugar

Peel, core and quarter the pears (a melon baller works very well to core them). Stir together the water, sugar and vanilla in a large pot and bring to a boil. Add the pears and boil them in the vanilla syrup for 5 minutes. Pack the jars with pears, using tongs and then pour the hot syrup over the pears leaving 1/2" headspace. Process canned pears for 25 minutes (20 minutes if your altitude is below 1,000 feet)

Mix any remaining syrup with seltzer water for an Italian soda. :)

Yield: 6 pints.

Also this one.

Pear Honey

Ingredients

 3 lbs fresh pears, peeled,cored,and finely chopped

 5 1/2 cups sugar

 1 (8 ounce) can crushed pineapple in juice

 1 tablespoon lemon juice

Directions

1.In a 6 quart stainless steel kettle combine all ingredients.

2.Bring to boiling, stirring occasionally.

3.Simmer 40 mins.

4.Spoon into sterile jars, leaving a 1/2 inch head space.

5.Wipe jar rims, adjust lids.

6.Process in boiling water for 10 mins.

7.Makes 7 half pints

And of course im not done yet.... Apples are coming up to! I want to do the red cinnamon/spiced apple rings. Like you can get in the store, they are sliced in rings and in a red cinnamony syrup. Does anyone have a recipe for those????

AND crabapples... MY FIL has a tree loaded with marble sized crabapples... What is best to do with these????? I thought I have seen them whole in the red syrup like the apple rings... can I do them whole like that? I thought they would be really neat to do for CHristmas. They are rope I guess already... I tasted one, a rella dry sour but appley tasting. Ive read thats what they are supposed to tast like.

HElp ME!

Serena..... still learning even after doing this for 3 years....