I hate skinning any fruit when I am canning. Put those in your compost.Ģ) Wash the pears, core them, and cut them into fourths. What you want to avoid is anything truly rotten or moldy. The pears should be ripe, and they can even be slightly on the over-ripe side. So here is how to make Emergency Pear Butter, along with some mistakes to avoid.ġ) Get pears.

It seemed to start to happen in an instant.įinally when I had thrown away the fifth rotten pear in as many hours, I decided to quit all other plans for the day and get to canning before I lost my whole case. I truly do not understand how or why it was happening, but every time I walked by the case of pears while I was working, they looked worse and worse. And in the time it took to record said podcasts, these beautiful pears started liquefying. I then proceeded to record three podcasts. So, I grabbed the case of pears, and I brought them upstairs to remind myself that sometime this week I would like to make pear butter. Well, there were some rotten apples, but the pears were still pristine. This reminded me I needed to sort through all the bins of fruit to throw out anything rotten. Yesterday I went down to the basement for some other purpose, and the scent of ripe apples and pears wafted strongly toward me. Because I could not fit them all in my refrigerator, I stored them in the coldest room in my basement.

Yesterday, I ended up dropping everything to make what I am now calling “Emergency Pear Butter.” You see, a week or two ago, I bought a beautiful case of organic pears from a local food co-op. It’s fall, and the abundance of apple, pear, and nut harvest are in full swing.

Arcadia pears