Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Eating and Drinking => Cooking, Storing and Preserving => Topic started by: icbradley on September 26, 2014, 13:07
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Not sure I am in the right place but here goes.
I have foraged a lot of small pears, probably a wilding so not a known variety. At the moment they are hard. They have a lot of core and not much flesh. You are now thinking why bother! However, I would like to make something with them and I am open to suggestions.
My preference is a cake of some kind.
Thanks
Ian
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Pear and chocolate sponge with chocolate custard............mmmmm
I have a tree with very small, early pears and I halve them, scoop out the core with a melon baller, bottle them in sugar syrup with added vanilla and then cooked up in a waterbath. Very handy over winter.
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I made ginger and pear muffins the other day. It was a Rachel Allan recipe and very tasty. I will have a look for the recipe when I get a minute.
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Pear and chocolate sponge with chocolate custard............mmmmm
I have a tree with very small, early pears and I halve them, scoop out the core with a melon baller, bottle them in sugar syrup with added vanilla and then cooked up in a waterbath. Very handy over winter.
My Mum used to do this and add some seasonal spices to the syrup. We ate them every year with our December festive lunch. Gorgeous :D
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Last year I also made some quince and pear jelly with seasonal spices. forgot that. :D
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Pear and walnut chutney is nice too not a cake though :lol: