Thursday, July 26, 2012

Pear Relish Recipe


This recipe is from an old church cook book. It is not a new recipe. If this bothers or concerns you, please feel free to choose another recipe. I have made this recipe 2 years in a row. It is my mother-in-law's favorite thing and she is very good to us. It is the least I can do.

I like to eat it over beans, and peas. Served over rice, it reminds me of a Thai sweet and sour sauce that I have eaten at local Thai restaurants.

Ingredients:

4 quarts pears--peeled, cored, chopped
2 1/2 green peppers (or 2 large) (Take out the seeds and white veins inside the peppers and rough chop.)
2 1/2 red peppers (Take out the seeds and white veins inside the peppers and rough chop.)
2 to 3 hot peppers (with seeds makes it hotter. without makes it milder)
2 1/2 large onions (rough chopped)
2 1/2 cups cider vinegar
2 1/2 cups sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt

Grind pears through food processor.

Grind all peppers, and onions through the food processor.

You are looking for a very fine chop on all the vegetables.

Put all ingredients together into a non reactive pot and boil 20 minutes.

Fill pint jars. Leave 1/2 inch headspace.

Process in water bath canner 10 minutes.

Makes 5 pints. (Most of the time. One time, it made 7 for me. I don't know what I did differently.) 

5 comments:

  1. Interesting I'd never thought of combining pears and sweet peppers before - I love old recipe books - all my best preserve recipes come from my mums old recipe books.

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    1. Me either, honestly. My mother-in-law remembered the vague idea of this recipe from her childhood. I went searching and a friend of my mother-in-law's found it in one of her old recipe books.

      I love old recipe books, too. :)

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  3. Yummy! Thanks so much for sharing the recipe! Now I need to find myself some pears!

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