Homemade Pear Preserves
Pare the fruit, divide, and remove the cores adding to each pound of pears 3/4 pound of sugar, making a syrup. If brown sugar is used, clarify, add the pears a few at a time, and boil until clear, skim out and put in the remainder, cook in the same way. Then remove the fruit and boil the syrup down one-third; pack the fruit in cans and pour the syrup over it boiling hot. Seal immediately. These preserves may be put in jars and simply tied down when cold.