the Baptist pears
We have a pot luck turkey dinner at church tomorrow, and I am getting up at 3 AM to put the bird in the oven. But that's not the problem. The problem is that the person who was suppsed to make dessert had to cancel, so I had to make an impromptu dessert with whatever I had on hand.
It meant I had to use some of my Baptist pears.
We're not Baptists, but the pears came from the tree in a local church parking lot. I have enough ginger pear sauce, pear butter, pear halves, pear slices, and pear pancake syrup. But sadly, this emergency means I just used up the last of the pear pie filling. *sniff* So sad.
I have to make more of that next year. Basically, pear pie filling is made of all the little ends and pieces left over from making the pretty pear halves and slices, cooked down with some sugar and cinnamon and canned in a quart jar. I just added a half-cup of water mixed with two tablespoons of corn starch to the filling and simmered it until thickened in a saucepan, then poured it into a graham cracker crust.
Pear pie is especially good with maple walnut ice cream, or whipped cream. And we've used it all up for the year. In DECEMBER. Woe.
It meant I had to use some of my Baptist pears.
We're not Baptists, but the pears came from the tree in a local church parking lot. I have enough ginger pear sauce, pear butter, pear halves, pear slices, and pear pancake syrup. But sadly, this emergency means I just used up the last of the pear pie filling. *sniff* So sad.
I have to make more of that next year. Basically, pear pie filling is made of all the little ends and pieces left over from making the pretty pear halves and slices, cooked down with some sugar and cinnamon and canned in a quart jar. I just added a half-cup of water mixed with two tablespoons of corn starch to the filling and simmered it until thickened in a saucepan, then poured it into a graham cracker crust.
Pear pie is especially good with maple walnut ice cream, or whipped cream. And we've used it all up for the year. In DECEMBER. Woe.