Fall Pears
Basket
Floradora went outside with her basket…
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dew
…on a fine fall morning when the dew was still wet…
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Pear
…and the sun beginning to glow on the pears.
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Big
The pears were much too big for Floradora’s basket…
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Many
…and there were too many!
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Hmmmm
Jane is studying the pear section of her cookbook: pear and cream cheese muffins; pear pie; crumble; tarte tatin; pear in our breakfast cereal, on green salad, and fruit salad; raw pears off the tree; pear jam; canned pears…a Hitty friend made some chutney!
All the pears are ready all at once! Where to start?
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Quimper Hittys 
So glad to see that you have an abundance of pears. We too are celebrating the fact that our pear trees have produced an overwhelming amount of fruit this year too. Our latest “recipe” is to give some away!
This does seem to be the year of the pear! Luckily we like pears, and are happy to eat any and all of the above, and giving them away also works!
We have the same problem, pears are short-lived in a fruit bowl and the harvest is enormous! I am poaching some in port and canning them. Fortunately, stewed pears and dried pears are popular here too.
Oh yes, dried pears are delighted in here as well – we like a dried pear slice wrapped around a whole almond as a snack!
They all ripen right now. The reason we look at the produce with both pleasure and dismay. What to do first! And second, and third.
That’s why they’re so good.
Very good! We are disappointed that the apple blossoms didn’t set any fruit, but the pears are more than making up for that.
what a blessing to have an abundance to enjoy in the moment and later too. Floradora looks cozy in her sweater.
The pears are so abundant! It is a lot of work to put them up, but joyful, and many hands make light work! Floradora loves her sweater – another example of “many hands”!
My own favourite is a pear upside-down cake, but Poires Belle HĂ©lène and pear fruit leather are also yummy in addition to the options you’ve mentioned.
Poires Belle HĂ©lène sound amazing! I have also enjoyed pears poached in red wine, pear sauce (like applesauce but grittier) and pear cordial! I like the sound of the Belle HĂ©lènes though…
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sooo many pears, so many recipes!! Jane and her human need helpers!! Looking forward to the products of the Quimpre kitchen.
The Quimper kitchen is absolutely chock-a-block with pears, and the compost bin with peelings, stems and cores! We’ve made so many of our favourite recipes…but the Jam might be our favourite!
Beautiful stages, photographs, colours, ah all details too… Thank you, Love, nia
Thank you! The pears are so abundant this year, we love to find new ways to eat them up, and of course the Hittys always help when they can!