Pears

Olliebeak

Have you tried putting a couple of ripe apples in with them? Apples seem to make all other fruit ripen fairly quickly.

Otherwise peel and poach gently in some lightly sugared water. The person (in other pear thread) who said to try melted chocolate poured over the top of poached pears is quite right - Pears Belle Helene mmmmmmm!

Good Luck!

Stephen_Leak

As above but with a banana: they give off a gas called "ethylene", which stimulates fruit to ripen.

kayjay1809

Pink - thanks for the link to the other thread, don't know why I didn't think to do a search I like the idea of pear and choc pudd before I start back on my WW diet

icecubequeen

I had the same problem recently, as they had lots reduced in asda, so brought 3 bags full

Got them home then thought what shall I do with them :rolleyes:

I ended up making an upside down pear cake, which was easy and tasted really nice.

Just made a normal sponge cake mixture, sliced up the pears and layered them on the bottom of the cake tin, then poured the cake mixture on top and cooked as normal sponge cake.

When cooked tip out of tin and sit on plate so pears are on the top of the cake, serve with custard or cream, was yummy

Seakay

Deilia's pickled pears are great - make from now to October to be ready for Christmas. I did them last year and they were delish - also the opinion of my mother in law who had a jar as a visitor's present
http://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/spiced-pickled-pears,1230,RC.html

You can use all wine vinegar or all cider vinegar if that is more convenient.

Penny-Pincher!!

OH chops them up and freezes the for smoothies.

HTH
PP
xx

chocolatepennyfarthing

Have a pear tree in garden, any ideas what I can make with pears before they all go bad.

Thanks

Feanor

Hi,

Just lately we have been eating pears as a dessert.

Chop them up into big chunks, maybe even in half but missing the pips..then sprinkle them wth ground cinnamon. Melt some brown sugar and add the pears so they become soft and caramalised. Then serve hot with vanilla ice cream or thick fresh cream. so yummy!

x

Hapless_2

pear and apple crumble

nuttyrockeress

Ship them to me!! I love hard fresh pears - I could eat them by the bucket full!!