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Sarah and Kevin go pear picking and then can pear slices for winter.
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@jemmiestone3496 4 жыл бұрын

Your Pears look amazing. Sure will be some good eating over the Winter. Thank God for great neighbors who share their bounty. God Bless Y'all.

@portialancaster3442 4 жыл бұрын

In 1978 I took a canning class from my local university's farmers extension program. When it came to wiping down the rim, just before putting the lid on, I was told to wash my hands and use my finger to clean the rim because and I quote "your hands are the cleanest thing in the kitchen". The instructor stressed how germ laden kitchen towels and sponges get. Her advice stayed with me over the years and to this day I don't use sponges. Anyway you two have been canning for years without problems so your sanitation must be excellent. I've been watching for over a year and I don't even have a garden - that's how good your show is. Blessing to you and your loved ones.

@lisaosborne8670 4 жыл бұрын

I've been watching for 4 months and now I want some kind of garden next year. I'm thinking one raised bed 4 x 8 for at least some tomatoes and peppers in my back yard and maybe a smaller one for fresh herbs. This show is my happy place in the morning before work with my coffee.

@brettarsenault6573 4 жыл бұрын

Every kitchen I've ever worked in has had a five gallon bucket full of bleach water where we kept out rags....

@DLRyoung 4 жыл бұрын

I do this, if I feel a squeak it’s good. I don’t trust rags and sponges.

@walters5235 4 жыл бұрын

I think the fact that the jars get boiled for the length of time kills any bacteria on them. Main thing seems to be to prevent there being any food particles causing a seal failure.

@DLRyoung 4 жыл бұрын

If you take her method, that she uses.. you run your clean damp finger around the rim of the jar you should hear a squeak... it’s not a question about sterile, it’s to feel if there is any food or oil to stop the lid from sealing. Nothing worse then working your tail off and having the lids not seal because you didn’t check the tops.

@crispecritters6339 4 жыл бұрын

They are a type of Kefir pear.......an old variety. The old timers call them “horse pears......because they are big enough to choke a horse” hahahahah

@appalachianmercantile 4 жыл бұрын

Could they be Asian pears?

@crispecritters6339 4 жыл бұрын

Usually the Asian pears are round. We have the MSU Fruit experiment Station in our town and they have said they are a type of Kefir. They have some of the same pear trees.

@notmyworld44 4 жыл бұрын

@@appalachianmercantile No. Completely different.

@tmac7484 4 жыл бұрын

Hope ya share some with your neighbors...😊

@highstandards6226 4 жыл бұрын

Don't they typically grow about 1 foot in height/year?

@barbaraanderson4175 4 жыл бұрын

Used to have pear trees and we had pickers to reach the high spots. If you fertilize the trees with mushroom manure or cow manure as far out as the branches go you’ll be propping the branches with so many pears. We did this for a neighbor that was elderly and no longer could tend to his orchard. We loved watching him take bushel baskets all over the neighborhood giving everyone apples and pears.

@randyvinson7736 4 жыл бұрын

Grandma Cooked cores and peels handmade jelly or syrup with them.

@edieboudreau9637 4 жыл бұрын

Randy Vinson mine too.

@lindamineer7798 4 жыл бұрын

Grandma's never wasted a thing.

@edieboudreau9637 4 жыл бұрын

Linda Mineer you know it

@rhondaborders3452 4 жыл бұрын

Randy, my grandmother & mother made jelly with apple & peach peels too.

@charlottehughes4221 4 жыл бұрын

I did that this year, turned out really great.

@donnaspear8494 4 жыл бұрын

Honey, I love your instruction. You're a natural teacher. I like the way you present information. You don't come off as a know-it-all, which makes me relax, and just be able to listen. Thanks. Please keep the knowledge coming.

@rayettakirkley1663 3 жыл бұрын

I love love love canned pears, a little cottage cheese and canned pears for lunch, yum!!!

@hazelbrungard1623 3 жыл бұрын

Same way we canned our pears back in the '50 '60s. I agree. That peeler works wonderfully. Carrots don't stand a chance to miss an inch.. A ring of pineapple, a halved pear, mayo, topped with a red cherry.. a good appetizer

@hazelbrungard1623 3 жыл бұрын

Exactly what my mom served

@Slassetter 4 жыл бұрын

My parents used to wrap pears in newspaper to keep them from rotting before they could get them canned.

@lisareaume3857 4 жыл бұрын

The same thing here. Our pear tree didn't really produce last year but this year our 35 foot pear tree is producing SO MANY we won't even be able to use them all! So,into the compost they go! Those you have there are like FOOTBALLS! WOW,they look great!

@judyharbin6305 4 жыл бұрын

We picked apples once from a friends tree and couldn’t reach the ones at the top. I went home and made an apple picker on a long pole. Since then I have seen you can buy something similar. I Duck taped a gallon milk jug opposite the handle side to the pole. I cut out the handle area with enough room for the fruit to fall into the jug. At the top of the hole needs to be a forked slit to catch the stem of the fruit and pull down with the fruit falling into the jug. Worked great and was fun. No cost just used what I had. Love you guys.

@jamaicanbeauty8120 4 жыл бұрын

Sounds amazing Judy

@manonb.4776 4 жыл бұрын

Judy Harbin hi that works for me to! Manon from Canada

@lichub 3 жыл бұрын

DUCT tape.

@robinr.770 4 жыл бұрын

The pears are glorious. Bless the neighbors that shared them. Thank you. 🌻🍂🍁

@barbaralincoln8542 4 жыл бұрын

Hope they share the canned ones with the best older couple. 🤗😘

@harleyreese214 4 жыл бұрын

Just no way to describe the enjoyment from your videos, and visiting with your family during each function of your lives.

@hauteswan2541 4 жыл бұрын

Your neighbors are amazing for allowing you to pick from their tree. You should do something sweet for them like make them a few bars of home made butter and a nice jug of milk!

@lmeasterwood 4 жыл бұрын

Your video brings back memories of my dad canning pears from my parent's yard. My dad passed away 22 years ago. We still pick pears from the tree. None of us four kids remembered his process for canning. Your video has inspired me to try it next season, since they have already ripened past the canning stage. We are in the deep south and ours ripen earlier than your location. Your yellow bowls look just like one my mother still has in her kitchen. She purchased it in the 1950s as a set with smaller bowls. Thank you for inspiring me to bring back a family tradition.

@sharonthomas6034 4 жыл бұрын

Sarah, I was born and raised in the UP of MI. My father was an entrepreneur, one of his businesses took him to Chicago quite a bit in the fall. On his way home he would stop in Green Bay at the farmers market and buy bushels of pears 🍐 and peaches 🍑 for my mom to can. She would make spiced pears, so goood. We lived on a large farm so everything was processed right there. Beef, pork, chicken.What a great life❤️🍐🍑🤓

@raiganmtz 4 жыл бұрын

I love this story

@gafairbanks2434 2 жыл бұрын

With you on that! Gardening and baking fresh, canning everything ! End treat was a full day of making fresh donuts as our reward ! Oh how I miss all my teachers !

@dianawilliams-coe7747 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the video.... I learn something every time I watch.... Don’t forget to take a jar of pears to the neighbors for letting you pick from their tree...

@markhoyt8643 4 жыл бұрын

We just blanch the pears for 15 seconds and drop them in cold water and the skin comes of big time saver.

@nhunter6506 4 жыл бұрын

Mark Hoyt ....wow! I didn’t know that....have used that method for peaches. Thanks!

@fishnlady 4 жыл бұрын

Mark Hoyt I blanched mine this year and it sure sped up the peeling process. Great advice!

@lhodgens 4 жыл бұрын

As I was enjoying today's wonderful pear canning marathon, my husband brought in the mail. So excited to have received my Rabbit Cookbook! I know it will bring our family many years of enjoyment!

@laurawebb5023 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for showing the canning process for pears. They look AWESOME!!

@gerryjohnson294 4 жыл бұрын

What generous neighbors! Blessed is right.

@6996katmom 4 жыл бұрын

Many years ago we would pick pears and mom would make pear preserves. I need to find a pear tree. Have a Wonderful & Blessed Day!

@trapshooter46 4 жыл бұрын

my mother always added a few cloves to her canned pears.. loved them

@CassieDavis613 4 жыл бұрын

That sounds like a good deal.

@paulbenson3703 4 жыл бұрын

Seeing you guys makes me wish I was half my age living on my own small farm😊

@evied.4475 4 жыл бұрын

Paul, I've often thought the same thing. 🙂

@g.cosper8306 4 жыл бұрын

Paul, I'm 64 and still dreaming of a small farm. It's never too late if you think community to help with really heavy stuff in exchange for homemade food or canning lessons or sewing, crochet, knitting, any hand craft hands on! I'm trading fresh artisan bread and soon branching to sourdough!

@pattystordahl3754 4 жыл бұрын

@@g.cosper8306 sounds like we of 60 and older should get together and get a commune going. Lots of abandoned decent farms or bank owned farms to be had. See Cheap homestead land on You Tube. I am up for selling my property on Whidbey Island Washington and getting this lifestyle going. Red state purchase only.

@terrynoraturner1848 4 жыл бұрын

We have had 5 gallons of vinegar going for the last 8 years; apple, wild plum, peach, and pear. Pear make a milder vinegar than apple. Excellent flavored vinegar. Try old time cast iron apple peelers on the pears. Works great for us. Your pears look great.

@emmadalrymple4102 4 жыл бұрын

Won't you be...my neighbor? That was the biggest and nicest pear tree I have ever seen. Lucky you!

@lyndagreen241 3 жыл бұрын

My favorite peeler ever....like you said so much faster.

@zwithgol 3 жыл бұрын

I mean this in the absolute best of terms, you guys are dorky and adorable.

@suzannesimpson7121 4 жыл бұрын

Could you give us tour of your canning shelves?

@roniariasi1365 4 жыл бұрын

Oh yes! And your freezer😃

@barkerjeanie 4 жыл бұрын

I have to ask, do y’all have some kind of clue to know when to take turns talking? You are not talking over each other Just wondering

@katherinegarey1643 3 жыл бұрын

Suzanne Simpson, You may know this by now but, in one of their videos that I watched yesterday, Sarah said NOPE! No tour because they don't have a pantry so there are boxes of canned goods through out their house, under beds, etc. 🙂

@michaelcook768 4 жыл бұрын

Dad's sister used to do 14 day Florida Lime pickle, pickled peaches, pears, and beets, tomato relish, pear butter, applesauce, Apple butter. She canned limas, flat snap beans, squash, corn, tomatoes...they had a farm. When they had the dairy, she made her own butter. I remember churning butter in an ancient wooden churn. She made sausage balls, cooked, then canned them. Their grocery bill was small. They had chickens for years, just for eggs, beef and pork from the farm. They used to do 100 chickens for freezing..but, had stopped by time I was old enough to remember.

@huachi5 4 жыл бұрын

Oh, thanks for bringing back some sweet memories …. any time my mom canned preserves, be it pear, fig, mock strawberry, huckleberry, blueberry, or dewberry we would have breakfast for supper that evening …. hot biscuits to enjoy the fresh preserves and bacon, eggs and grits!!! Oh, those were the days!!! Again, thank you for stirring up the memories!!!

@darrinramcharith4054 4 жыл бұрын

Awesome Beautiful pear 🍐 lovely 💯%amazing content 👍 👌 God bless you all.

@deborahgilliland1804 4 жыл бұрын

They look like Bosc pears. The skins run from a smooth greenish to a rough brown. Hard pears and yes great for canning, baking and stewing. My favorite pears for eating any way. Those are beautiful!

@cajunlane3191 4 жыл бұрын

Add some red hots candies to a couple of jars for the Holidays.

@stephanieh.777 3 жыл бұрын

I make apple butter with a few red hots tossed in - it's delicious!

@stacycrowder640 4 жыл бұрын

You can also take your pear pillings to make pear jam, boil them for about 2 hours in water on medium heat and then strain the juice off of the pillings and you make your pear jam like normal.

@przlsc 4 жыл бұрын

Remember going as a family to a tree out in the middle of a field in Illinois and picking baskets of pears. Not as big as yours 😉. My mom dissolved red hot cinnamon drops for the syrup and canned them in halves. So pretty! One of my daughters will only eat canned pears because grandma had pink pears, and that’s the only way she thought they should be 😆

@CassieDavis613 4 жыл бұрын

red hots in the canned pears brings back fond childhood memories

@dorothyfu7540 4 жыл бұрын

I am so glad you are going to make vinegar with the scraps. Just be sure to stir the solution every day for 2 weeks. You should have no problem.

@waynecarlson3736 4 жыл бұрын

Sarah I have learned so much about canning from you..Thank You Have A TRULY BLESSED DAY

@rogerthat7001 2 жыл бұрын

I am grateful for your pear preserving video. My husbands pear tree is loaded this year for the first time ever. We have hundreds of pears. I will can them using citric acid. Thank you.🍐🍐🍐🍐🍐🍐🍐🍐🍐

@paulaarthur57 4 жыл бұрын

How wonderful that you have such kind neighbors. We love pears too and they will be a treat in the winter and all year long.

@aprilstafford7986 4 жыл бұрын

With the scraps, I make pear jelly. Our FAVORITE is adding a small bit of orange extract (you don't want it to overpower) and some orange zest for looks. SO YUMMY!

@marvelenelavigne7427 3 жыл бұрын

I have been canning for 4 years now. I watch you do you canning and now I want to can everything you make it so easy . Thank you

@z.norton3326 4 жыл бұрын

This was fun...thanks for doing this video....I am almost 60 and never canned before ...but am really interesting in learning. I love watching you guys.....you are living my dream....

@caroldoulton 3 жыл бұрын

pear scrap vinegar is yummy great to drink and great to use in salad dressing

@judithkatz1918 4 жыл бұрын

My in laws had two pear trees in the front yard. They were planted when they bought the house. That was 15 yrs before I came along. My mother in law used to preserve fruit salad which had a large helping pear. My fiw used to eat "compote" with any meat meal since he couldn't eat pickles. By the time I came along the trees (bartlett and anjou like) were producing so much pears they couldn't give them away. They had signs saying free pears and dozens of baskets lining the curb. They were the best tasting pears I ever had. Then and until today. When they sold the house. The house and garden were bulldozed and McMansion put in its place. A real shame, that.

@joannmahaffey1068 4 жыл бұрын

Never let your tree get that tall. You need to get some root stock and graft a piece of that tree to save the variety. Those are amazing

@rebeccafoust2963 4 жыл бұрын

It blows my mind seeing the hot jars removed from the canner, placed on your cloth to cool without covering with another cloth to protect from the draft that could cool your jars unevenly and increase the likelihood of your jars breaking and your hard work going to waste. I know modern homes do not have as much of a draft problem as our houses of old, but in my mind it is not worth the risk. Great to see the increase in canning your own produce. You can also make jelly from your scraps... my personal favorite.

@rebeccahenkins1697 4 жыл бұрын

I know they have lots of usable but cores and skins would be a treat for all your animals too!!

@rebeccahenkins1697 4 жыл бұрын

Use the steam juicer for jelly etc!

@poodledaddles1091 4 жыл бұрын

Those were the biggest pears I have ever seen!

@CassieDavis613 4 жыл бұрын

I know, right? Huge

@ronnie7701 3 жыл бұрын

Yep. Canning pears 🍐 that what I was raised with to identify them

@cruciferousvegetable 4 жыл бұрын

We have a pear tree. We use a 23ft telescoping paint roller handle with a minnow dip net duct taped to the end. Place the pears inside the rim of the net, then pull sharply to pop the pears off the tree. They are caught in the net and lowered safely. The biggest best pears are at the top of the tree.

@carolegoodwin6161 3 жыл бұрын

my Great Grandmother used all her fruit scraps and made jelly out of them - she said after she called the fruit the jelly was free food for her family. Of course she lived through the Depression and raised 5 children and 2 grandchildren (my mother & her brother) so everything she could use to put food on their table she did. She made watermelon rind pickles along with her other pickles. Anything left over at the end of canning vegetables she put together and made "piccadilly" which was vegetable relish put on just about anything during a meal. Nothing went unused.

@schifflangefarms4539 4 жыл бұрын

We always add a slice of orange to each jar of pears, gives the pears a little better favor.

@lattelolly6925 4 жыл бұрын

Yummmmy! We love Pears. Our favorites with pears are, Pear Butter and Dried Pears. The Dried Pears are like candy.

@CH-hh1mg 4 жыл бұрын

To pick fruit that was up too high to reach, Grandpa made a 'picker'. He took an old broom handle and nailed or screwed a large coffee can to the top of it. He then cut out a "V" shape at the opposite end, at the top of the can. We then would guide the fruit into the can and push up so the "V" would cut the fruit off. Used this for years for every type of fruit he had.

@debbieedwards5093 4 жыл бұрын

Pear pie is my very favorite kind of pie. Made from "hard" pears is best

@ljc9337 4 жыл бұрын

I love what you are doing...my mom used to serve canned pears over cottage cheese. You have the means to make cottage cheese and canned pears right where you are. Inconceivable!

@pattihayden8100 4 жыл бұрын

I always make vinegar with my scraps, just add a couple of handfuls of your peals to a quart size mason jar with a half cup of sugar add water so it’s about an inch above the fruit, give it a good stir set the lid on it loosely and set it on the counter. Stir it a couple times a day . If your fruit settles to the bottom add more sugar and watch it foam and sizzle. When you have the desired vinegar smell, strain off the fruit and store in a clean container in the pantry

@crissyb65 4 жыл бұрын

We got to harvest from our young pear tree for the first time. 26 🍐 are now in seven half pints and one pint as slices in syrup for my cottage cheese. The last couple made a jelly jar and a half of a quick pear butter. So excited about our first harvest.

@gingersnapjudy 4 жыл бұрын

Oh how i love pears! Those are incredible. So wonderful that the neighbors are happy to share their pear bounty!

@ritakus9871 4 жыл бұрын

You have lovely followers who give excellent tips, wonderful stories, and great support. May God bless you, your family, and your fabulous followers.

@jeffmartin693 4 жыл бұрын

you could graft a branch off there to your pear tree when doing some spring pruning

@gardenlady58 4 жыл бұрын

or also try air layering

@kimberlywalders6063 4 жыл бұрын

I would love to know how to do that. My son has a old apple tree I would love to get a tree from. If you could nMessage me how to do that I would be so grateful.

@evacoppersmith6680 4 жыл бұрын

I have canned my peaches and pears with honey. Works very well.

@missmartpants2269 4 жыл бұрын

Beautiful jars full of goodness! God bless!

@teresaderus5629 4 жыл бұрын

I put my jars in the oven to get them warm after they are washed.

@jennifershephard6638 3 жыл бұрын

Canning 101 is a fantastic series! Sarah your a great teacher, thank you

@mattieott797 4 жыл бұрын

My Grandma had a pear tree just like that one . The way you describe the pears it's just like Grandma's. They were hard as a rock until the late fall . All she ever did with them was can them , and were they ever good . Wish i could have a jar of Grandma's canned pears . Such good memories. Till next time take care and God bless .

@lynn4truth592 4 жыл бұрын

My dad would wrap the greener pears in newspaper and store until yellow and ripe. They were awesome.

@carolynbrookens5348 4 жыл бұрын

Again, great video...I always enjoy your videos and you and Kevin are so easy to watch. You both give equal information while respecting each others opinion. We do not know if you edit your videos a lot before the public views them, but your delivery, grammar and speaking ability is very professional. My day is a great day when I watch you. (And that is every day that you produce a video.) Thank you.

@lararabb8888 4 жыл бұрын

Pear jelly with the leftover bits! We made pear preserves. Each fall.

@tommielourogers4327 3 жыл бұрын

Wow! Those are huge. They would be delicious poached in Port wine with vanilla ice cream. I bet that the yellow jackets have a nest in the ground under the tree.

@tiffanybarnett7569 4 жыл бұрын

Make spiced pears using cloves and cinnamon! Delicious!

@amandaahler2264 3 жыл бұрын

When you process pears and apples to core them out I cut them in half and use a melon baller. You then can cut into smaller slices. You have less waist and is easier.

@essemsween818 4 жыл бұрын

Should've driven the tractor and hoisted Sarah up in the bucket. A safe, sturdy platform to clear a big patch then either hoist her higher or move to another spot. Then stick your (hopefully full) baskets be they bushel or bucket and drive them home! SIMPLES!!! Missed a trick there Kevin. Lol. Unless of course the Pear Tree which is just waiting for It's Partridge, is in the centre of a pristine lawn of perfectly edged & striped lawn, you know, Golf Club stylee.🤣 They do look gorgeous though. I bought my Titan peeler from TV but I used to peel the butt of my hand when I had a lot to peel.

@darleneearl5870 3 жыл бұрын

You can make a picker for apples and pears, use a can on a long stick with cloth in the bottom and a notch cut out in one end of the can. You basically have to have 2 ends on the can or a coffee can with a plastic lid. Slip the notch over the pear and pull down and the pear falls into the can.. That way no ladder is involved.

@jerrypeacock5166 4 жыл бұрын

Pear preserves with hot butter biscuits on a cold fall morning,, brings back many good memories! Those wasps were looking for moisture and the sweet pear was ripe for the picking. Those with big holes or half eaten were probably from birds.

@scottpowell9871 4 жыл бұрын

When I can fruit I juice some and use the juice as the simple syrup to can the fruit in. The fruit holds it's taste and flavor much better.

@ciciliacurt9104 4 жыл бұрын

What a blessing to learn from you. Hugs and kisses to your girls

@julieclark626 3 жыл бұрын

Get a small bucket with a hole and attach to a pole and use it to pick the pears up high.

@debbieedwards5093 4 жыл бұрын

You can make your pear pie filling and then can it in quart jars, which would be enough for a large deep dish pear pie, one thing I like to add to pear pie filling is just a tad ( 1/4 teaspoon of ground cloves) of spice, otherwise it's pretty much the same as apple pie filling. Then anytime in winter you can just make a pie crust, pop a jar of pear filling, and you have a fresh pear pie, so yummy

@marybuggy7811 4 жыл бұрын

Sarah - thank you for this video. I love pears, they are my favorite⭐

@kimiearchuleta2775 4 жыл бұрын

Pear relish is the best. A great accent to. Beans.

@coopie624 4 жыл бұрын

You guys ROCK! Yet another trip down memory lane! We had pear trees on our farm and we canned pears and made pear preserves. Oh my, so good! Thanks!

@valerieedwards2328 4 жыл бұрын

They are called Kefir pears. Our kefir pear trees never get bugs. Since they don’t need sprayed and apple trees do, I grow pears and use them in recipes that call for apples. You can make pear sauce and pear juice too. I use an old fashion apple peeler that peels, cores and slices the pears. So much faster. When picking fruit you can get a fruit picker. It a wire basket with a claw on a long pole. I can reach must of the fruit from the ground or standing in the bed of a pickup.

@MrBeard-ig5zc 4 жыл бұрын

Jars don't break so easily. But it's nice of you to caution your viewers.

@BryansGMa 4 жыл бұрын

I have the same peeler. I also have one just like it bit with rippled cutters. Love them. Good luck with pears. Super nice neighbors. God. 🤗Bless 🙏🏻

@pandvsims 4 жыл бұрын

I also use 100% apple juice as the syrup. No sugar used at all. 1 litre does 6 quart jars when packed. The pears retain their flavour so nicely. I will never go back to sugar water syrup.

@247KW 3 жыл бұрын

Old timers here call them Rusty Coat Pears. I have 3 trees here in Arkansas. They taste like a cross between a pear and granny smith green apple. They make the best pear jelly, pear jam, sliced pears, I even make pear butter.

@inglis7086 4 жыл бұрын

pick the "green" one and put them in the fridge or cellar then when you bring some into the kitchen for the bench they will ripen in the warm after a few days giving you fresh fruit without paying for them over the winter so you can do a few at a time - we had 260 acres of fruit trees - Oh and an apple will speed up the ripening process our chillers had to be cleaned and aired out for nearly a month between apples and any other fruit to stop this from happening

@hardenmama1800 4 жыл бұрын

Those were beautiful pears! Love how country neighbors share! We had a very old pear tree on the farm where I grew up. My grandfather made a pear picker out of wire attached to an old wooden pole. Always lots of wasps by the pear tree - but there were enough pears for everyone to share! Mom always made pear marmalade. A storm took the tree down a few years ago. An arborist estimated the tree was over 150 years old. It had never been treated with pesticide or chemicals of any sort.

@mpedals 4 жыл бұрын

that pear looked like a small cantaloupe size, nice,,,pear vinegar is amazingingly good

@patriciasears4209 3 жыл бұрын

Loved watching. My mouth waters.

@colorwhisperer 4 жыл бұрын

Love your channel, and you both work together so well. After seeing this show this morning and you were gathering the pears...I just had to share my dad's invention for getting down the pears. Knocking the pears out of the tree would bruise them, picking them on a ladder put us at risk of fall, so he invented the Folgers coffee plastic coffee can pear catcher. It was simply designed...it was a Folgers plastic coffee container, that he had put a long wood tomato/bean stake on with masking tape and an exact-o knife at the top of the pole. It was sturdy, and we used that contraption for several years. No more ladders. You would just put the coffee can near the pear to be harvest and cut the stem with knife. If you need more instruction or want to know how it was done, just write.

@theresajackson8873 4 жыл бұрын

Sounds corny, but you two are such a lovely couple and am so happy watching your endeavors and process. Thanks!

@rodkirt9273 4 жыл бұрын

Those are Ayers Pears. My grandma had a tree that was 30 feet high. One year it had no pears and the next year it would have so many pears that it would break the limbs off if we didn’t prop them up with 2x4 boards. The tree had pears every other year. She would pickle her pears and they were sooo good. Your video brought back memories from 50 years ago; really enjoyed it. For picking you use slightly green pears to make them extra crispy.

@TheOldMayfieldPlace 4 жыл бұрын

The Ball canning book is also my favorite reference for canning. It is definitely my go-to book.

@lisaosborne8670 4 жыл бұрын

Sarah, I always enjoy your canning videos! Such thorough explanations. Those pears will be amazing to eat in the winter when you are craving a little sweetness.

@pandvsims 4 жыл бұрын

I canned our pears from our own trees again this year and put vanilla bean curd in each jar. Mmm so good!

@jenniferhealey566 4 жыл бұрын

Saving and using peels, cores from apples or pears is great. I just cook them with a bit of water and putting through a food mill for sauce. No waste at all!