Cherry Pear Conserve Recipe

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I use pears harvested from my own trees to make this conserve. I love it combined with cream cheese and spread between two waffles that are topped with pure maple syrup.

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Cherry Pear Conserve Recipe

Prep: 1-1/4 hours + chilling Process: 10 min. + standing

Yield: 160 Servings

75 10 85

Ingredients

2 medium lemons
2 medium limes
8 cups chopped peeled ripe pears
2 cans (16 ounces each) pitted tart cherries, drained
2 cans (20 ounces each) crushed pineapple, undrained
2 cups raisins
10 cups sugar
1-1/3 cups coarsely chopped walnuts

Directions

Grate peel from lemons and limes; set peel aside. Remove pith from lemons and limes; section the fruit and place in a large bowl. Add lemon and lime peel, pears, cherries, pineapple, raisins and sugar. Cover and refrigerate overnight.
Transfer to a large kettle or Dutch oven. Cook over medium heat for 50-60 minutes or until thickened. Stir in nuts; bring to a boil. Remove from the heat. Immediately ladle into hot sterilized jars, leaving 1/4-in. headspace. Adjust caps. Process for 10 minutes in a boiling water bath. Yield: 10 pints.

Nutritional Facts 1 serving (2 tablespoons) equals 70 calories, 1 g fat (trace saturated fat), 0 cholesterol, 1 mg sodium, 17 g carbohydrate, trace fiber, trace protein.

Originally published as Cherry Pear Conserve in Country Extra September 2002, p49