Rinse pears
Boil 5-6 pears in a large pot for 45 seconds. Remove pears with a slotted spoon and carry in a bowl to the sink.
Dump pears into a sterile sink or dishpan filled with cold water.
Quickly rub peels off with your hands, mostly using your thumbs
Slice pear in half
Remove any leftover strings, bad spots, etc. with melon baller.
Use the melon baller to remove the core from each half.
Place pears in jar with syrup in the bottom. A funnel keeps the top of the jar clean. An apron keeps you clean.
Place jars in canner. This is a steamer canner. Place lid on top. When steam starts to come out the hole, start timing. I steam mine for 28 minutes. Wait a short while to remove lid to prevent being burned from escaping steam.
Remove jars with a jar lifter to clean towels. After jars are cool (usually the next day), rinse jars to remove any stickiness. Let sit on clean towels to dry. Mark the date on top and put away.
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How to Can
How do you have fresh fruits and vegetables while eating from your food storage?
On a regular basis, if you are rotating through your food storage, and still buying food, you can easily add salads, fresh fruits and vegetables to your diet. You can still have a master meal list for your family and include fresh things, like salad with spaghetti, or peaches with lunch, or bananas with breakfast.
Now, what if you have a reason that you are living on just your food storage? Then, you will certainly want to have fruits and vegetables on hand! You can have canned, frozen, freeze-dried, and dried. We have lots of canned fruits, plus dried raisins, apricots, and cranberries. You can also have canned and frozen juices on hand, bought when they go on sale.
Another option is to have a garden. Here in Las Vegas, you can grow things all year round. You can have fruit trees and gardens, even if you only have a small spot. Many people here have zero-lot line yards, and wonder where to put a garden. I would encourage you to learn how to espalier fruit trees (grow them flat on a wall; this was done in castles to help provide food during times of siege). Also, you can grow lettuce and tomatoes, as well as many other things, in pots.
Canning Suppliers
Canning Pantry This company shipped my canner to me very quickly in the middle of canning season. I was impressed.
Canners
New to canning? Wondering what you need?
Here's what I'm using:
I use this to can peaches and pears. You can just use a
for those if you want as well.
A water bath canner is good for canning jams and jellies, applesauce, and fruits.
Instead of buying a water bath canner, you can use a large stockpot with a canning rack in the bottom. I use this pressure canning rack 
Presto 23-Quart Pressure Cooker/Canner
In order to safely can some items, such as vegetables and meats, you need to can using a pressure canner. This canner can also be used to cook things, so if you want to cook beans really quickly, or cook a tough, inexpensive cut of meat quickly, you can also use this for that. A 23-quart canner is big enough to fit 7 quart jars.
Canning Tools
This keeps your hands from getting burned while lifting hot jars.
You might not think this matters much, but it really helps to keep the top of the jars clean while you're canning, so that you can get a good seal. You'll still wipe the tops of the jars before putting lids on, but this will help. It also helps you to be a bit quicker when you're putting things into the jar (like boiling hot syrup!)
Back to Basics 174 Magnetic Lid Lifter
This makes it easy to get your lids out of the pan of hot water. You can also use a pair of tongs, which I used to use, but I found that having the lid lifter was SO much easier.
Back to Basics 220 Food Strainer & Sauce Maker
This is wonderful for making applesauce! It is SO much faster than processing tiny little amounts in the blender! It's fantastic for grape juice, too. It has different sized screens that you can order to make different things. The tomato strainer that it comes with (for making tomato sauce) works for applesauce as well. You'll need to order the grape spiral and screen if you want to do grape juice. I also use this when canning bananas.
Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving
Complete Guide to Home Canning and Preserving
