For the fall, it's fun to can. Because these recipes last, you can experiment and have a lot of fun. Jan Miller, who's the Executive Food Editor of the Better Homes & Gardens New Cookbook stopped by Tonia's Kitchen to talk about her recipe for Spicy Ginger Red Hot Pears. She told Tonia to use six pounds of six pounds of firm, ripe pears. She mixes water and sugar and covers and simmers the pears in that. She then takes some cinnamon sticks and fresh ginger, along cinnamon candies and places them into pint jars. The pears, water and sugar yields a syrup, which Jan ladles into the jars, while not filling all the way. She then process the jars in boiling water, and cans. It's a fantastic fall recipe.
Spicy Ginger Red-Hot Pears
PREP: 20
MINUTES
PROCESS: 20
MINUTES
MAKES: 6
PINTS
6 pounds firm, ripe pears
Ascorbic acid
color-keeper
4½ cups water
2 cups sugar
6 cinnamon sticks
6 tablespoons chopped
fresh ginger
12 teaspoons red cinnamon
candies
1 Peel,
halve, core, and cut pears into wedges, placing wedges in an ascorbic acid
solution (follow package directions) as you slice them to prevent browning.
2 In
a 6- to 8-quart heavy pot combine the water and sugar. Cook and stir over
medium heat until sugar is dissolved. Drain pears; add to syrup in pot. Return
to boiling; reduce heat. Simmer, uncovered, about 4 minutes or until pears are
nearly tender, stirring occasionally.
3 Place
1 cinnamon stick, 1 tablespoon ginger, and 2 teaspoons cinnamon candies in each
of six hot, sterilized pint canning jars. Ladle hot pears and syrup into jars
with spices leaving a 1/2-inch headspace (there will be syrup left over). Wipe
jar rims; adjust lids and screw bands.
4 Process
filled jars in a boiling-water canner for 20 minutes (start timing when water
returns to boiling). Remove jars from canner; cool on wire racks. (See “Canning
Basics,” pages 196–197.)
PER 1/2 CUP: 122
cal., 0 g total fat, 0 mg chol., 3 mg sodium, 32 g carb., 3 g fiber, 0 g pro. EXCHANGES:
1 Fruit, 1 Other Carb.
Excerpted from BETTER HOMES AND GARDENS NEW COOK BOOK 16TH EDITION © 2014 by Better Homes and Gardens. Reproduced by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.
