Name: Brandied Pears
Ingredients: yellow ripe pears; water

Brandied Pears

Ingredients

yellow ripe pears
water

Directions

Peel the pears and cut them in half, keeping the stem on one half.
Scrape the green skin off the stem.
Blanch the pears in boiling water for 8 minutes.
Process in glass jars: 12 minutes for 1/2 pint jars, 15 minutes for pint jars, 20 minutes for quart jars, and 30 minutes for gallon jars at 212°F (100°C).

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.