Making Pear Preserves Like Grandma! | GG Naturals Homestead🌻🦋 

@@teresacesario6247 my pleasure 💕

It really is! Life is really short, so we have to take advantage of those opportunities if available. 🌻🦋

Thanks for watching! I really appreciate you guys😊🤗

Awesome, thank you!🙌🏾 I want a better dehydrator! This one was ok to start but I need a more grown up one now😂

I really enjoy it! I’m going to do some more strawberries and a few others next. We are just about out LOL. Have a great night Auntie Ellen❤️💜

That is awesome exactly the way my mom makes her pear preserves. Never used lemon and let the pears sit under the sugar overnight! She never water bathed them either… just got cooked them and jarred them really hot. They seal and stay in the cabinet 🤷🏽‍♀️ Absolutely delicious! 😉

@@jeanettegraham2485 great memories 😊I definitely need to restock.

I’m glad it was helpful! The more you try, you only get better 😊 Peace and love to you and yours!

That sounds great!

Thank you Kween!🌻🦋

Me too 😆

They are definitely not as fuzzy as back in the day! I only focus on survival at this point... there is no picky wicky when you are starving lol.

Thank you 😊

It was amazing with homemade buttermilk biscuits! TFW 😊

People use to bring my mom bags of pear so she can make preserves but lately she hasn’t gotten as many. I will definitely be providing her with some when mine starts to produce so she can keep her hands busy. 😊

My pleasure Joy, that really touched my heart. I’m definitely trying to learn all I can from my Mom while she is still here. When we are young a lot of times we are unfocused on all the skills and knowledge they have. God bless 🙏🏽🌹

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Thank you! We love eating the preserves with homemade buttermilk biscuits 😊

@@teresacesario6247 agreed!

Angela let me just be honest and say that was too much sugar!😂 I use to eat a lot more sugar and now it is super sweet to me. It has been a long time since I made some so I don’t remember how many lbs that was. Once you start you will want to can everything in sight lol.

@@GGNaturals I too have cut down on the sugar, lol. I ended up making some spiced pears. I diced them up and let them sit in sugar and spices for two days, covered in the fridge (because I did not have time the same day to can). They smelled wonderful, before during and after I cooked them. I cooked them 30 minutes, let them boil for another15 mins while constantly stirring, water bathed them according to Balls handbook. They are beautiful! I decided to open a jar, and they were so delicious BUT, they were quite firm. :( I figured with all that cooking they would have been softer. I only used 1 cup of regular sugar and 1 cup of the Turbinado sugar (did not have enough of the regular sugar), I used small amounts of spices about 1/8th tsp, maybe less, ground fenugreek seed (has a slight maple taste, but also earthy), cinnamon, nutmeg, coriander, cardamom, turmeric, allspice, clove and vanilla. They are so good! And after that I had to can more fruits, I have done some orange-flavored fig preserves, raspberry(No Seeds) spread and spiced blackberry spread (fully loaded with seeds, lol). I caught the bug and now I look up all kinds of things to can, well fruits until I become brave enough to try something more complex. I have so enjoyed myself and so happy I found your channel! Thank you for being an inspiration! God Bless!

@@angelabibler9986 that sounds amazing! Even the blackberry one lol! I look forward to canning a larger variety of fruit. Pressure canning is a different but still awesome monster. It helps you with variety of food you can store for harder times ahead. I’m glad to have you my channel as well. Have a beautiful week😁

@@angelabibler9986 This was so helpful!! 🙏🏾 Im getting ready to soak in sugar but my jars are being delivered tomorrow. I was so nervous about not having them the day of lol so now i know i can just leave it in the fridge for tomorrow and i'm adding my spices!!!!🥰🥰

Yes you can use the sugar you have on hand. I just always buy the cane sugar or dark brown sugar.

A rack to keep the jars off the bottom of the canner. The risk of cracking is very high when they sit on the bottom.

I am certain it will work with a steam canner since it's just another way of water bath canning. That is definitely how you should begin then pressure can afterwards! Once you do it once, you will feel like an old pro😂🌻🦋

GG Naturals Homestead Thanks for the encouragement!🤗

@@PittsStopKitchenGarden you're welcome!💛

Hello. You sure can but be sure they are thawed out before canning them. 🙏🏽

I usually just bring them to a boil. If the pears are really, firm I may cook them 10-15 minutes or to soften them up a little. Thanks for watching 🙏🏽