Recipe: Spiced Pear Butter and Pear Marmalade (canning recipes)

Usually people use the pear syrup on pancakes, French toast, etc.
How about pear butter ? It is made like apple butter.

SPICED PEAR BUTTER

4 lb Bartlett pears, unpeeled, - cored, cut into 1" chunks
1/2 cup dry white wine
2 tbsp fresh lemon juice
1 1/2 cups sugar
4 orange slices
1 lemon slice
4 whole cloves
1 vanilla bean, split length.
1 cinnamon stick
1/2 tsp ground cardamon
pinch salt

Combine pears, wine and lemon juice in heavy large saucepan. Cover and simmer until pears are soft, pushing unsubmerged pears into liquid occasionally, about 25 minutes. Force through food mill or coarse sieve to remove pear peel. Transfer to processor and puree. Return puree to heavy large saucepan. Add remaining ingredients. Stir over low heat until sugar dissolves.

Increase heat to medium and boil gently until mixture thickens and mounds slightly in spoon, stirring often, about 50 minutes. Discard fruit slices, cloves, vanilla, and cinnamon. Spoon butter into hot canning jar, filling only to 1/4 inch from top. Immediately wipe rim, using towel dipped into hot water. Place lid on jar; seal tightly,

Repeat with remaining jars. Arrange jars in large pot. Add boiling water to pot so that at lease 1 inch of water covers tops of jars. Cover pot and boil rapidly 15 minutes. Remove jars from pot. Cool to room temperature. Press center of each lid. If stays down, jar is sealed. (If lid pops us, store butter in refrigerator.) Store in cool dry place up to 1 year. Refrigerate after opening.

This is also good !

PEAR MARMALADE

1 1/2 pounds ripe pears
1 orange
1 small can crushed pineapple
About 20 maraschino cherries
5 cups sugar
1 box powdered pectin

Peel and core pears. Grind these and the unpeeled orange. Fruits can be chopped real fine. Add undrained pineapple. Chop cherries. Combine fruits and you should have 41/2 cups. Put into a big saucepan and add pectin. Place over high heat and stir until mixture comes to, a hard boil. At once stir in sugar. Bring to a boil again and boil hard minute, stirring all the while. Remove from heat, skim off foam, then stir and skim for 5 minutes. Ladle into canning jars, process in boiling water bath canner for 10 min.

Pears are also wonderful canned with a cinnamon candy syrup. Just add some little red hot cinnamon candies to the syrups for canning (posted a few days ago).
Process as for regular pears. Lovely color and flavor !