What can I do with all these pears?

[Modat22]

I've got a pear tree in my back yard loaded, two pear trees in my neighbors yard loaded (He lets them rot) and I have no idea what I can do with them. I was thinking about dehydrating some but I'm not sure what I could use those for ether.

Any ideas?

Sorry if I'm off the topic here but figured a recipe or three would pop up  :D

[Radar67]

Making preserves or jelly comes to mind. There are several recipes listed on here for those.

With dehydrated, you could use them as part of a trail mix.

[Tom]

Make Pear butter.  It's like Apple butter.  :D

I made some pear syrup this year.  I have a centrifugal juicer.....as seen on TV ;D   I juiced a bunch of pears (skin, seeds, stems and all) and put a quart of juice into a pot, added two cups of sugar and the juice of two limes (one would have been enough).   Then I brought it to a boil and reduced it (skimming the foam) until the juice started forming a "sheet" (rather than just drops) as it was poured from a spoon.  Not to the point of forming strings. (it reduced to a little better than 1/2 left)

Then I put it in a jar and covered it with aluminum foil until it cooled (There was no need to seal it, I planned to eat it.)

I put some on waffles...... it was wonderful.   I put some on pancakes..... It was still wonderful.  I put some on French Toast and you would have to pay a $100 to get that taste in a Restaurant.

Then I put the remainder, after about a week, in the refrigerator because I was afraid it would go bad.   Because I made so little of it, I've been real stingy and it's still as good today as it was when I made it two months ago.

The neat thing is that I could have put the  pulp from the juicer into a pot, added some water, brown sugar and cinnamon and I'll bet it would have made some good pear butter without my having wasted anything.   I'll have to try that next year.

[ohsoloco]

Pear butter sounds pretty good    Make up some simple syrup and can some of them...spice 'em up with some cloves.   

If'n I had several trees like that, I'd make perry.  Throw in some priming sugar and bottle it in beer bottles.  Mmmm, sparkling perry.

[tyb525]

https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php/topic,33136.0.html

[pasbuild]

Id give them to my buddy Jim to make wine,  8) he makes very good wine

[Magicman]

Pear preserves.  We share with the neighbors. This old tree was planted by my Mom 72 years ago....

[Tom]

Id give them to my buddy Jim to make wine,  8)  he makes very good wine

Jim was a bullfrog too?   

[Radar67]

Tom, I think it was Jeremiah who was the bullfrog.  ;) I don't know where Jim comes in to play...oh, Jim is the guy you don't mess around with, just like not tugging on Superman's cape, not spitting in the wind, or pulling the mask off the Lone Ranger.  :D ;D

[Modat22]

My pears are so hard they'd shatter a windshield. They look like bartletts, taste sweet, but fall like bricks.

[Magicman]

The only thing hard about mine is trying to eat them and keep the juice from dripping off of your elbows....

[sawguy21]

We love the red skinned Bartletts but they need to be fully ripened.
Pasbuild has the right idea.  ;D Pear wine is a real treat. A former boss would fortify his with the alcohol he skimmed off another wine he didn't care for. He placed the poor stuff in baking pans in the freezer then skimmed it off. The resulting brew was best drank slowly.