Pretty Pear Preserves

Total Time: 1 hr 10 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• 4 lbs hard pears, peeled, cored
• 1 (12 ounce) jar maraschino cherries
• 1 (20 ounce) can pineapple chunks, in juice
• 1 lemon, juice of
• sugar

Recipe

• 1 process the pears in a food processor until finely chopped. remove pears to a large bowl. add cherries and juice to processor bowl and pulse a couple of times to lightly chop. add cherries to pears. drain the pineapple. place drained pineapple in food processor bowl and pulse 2 to 3 times to coarsely chop then add to other fruit.
• 2 measure the fruit. yield should be 8 to 9 cups. for every cup of fruit you will need 3/4 cup of sugar. in a large kettle, combine the chopped fruit, sugar and juice of 1 lemon. cook gently until mixture reaches the gel point. this should take approximately 40 minutes.
• 3 ladle mixture into hot sterilized jars. clean jar rims and place 2-piece lids on jars. process in a water bath canner as per your local county extension office.