6 firm, ripe pears, such as Comice 3 tablespoons unsalted butter 3 tablespoons dark brown sugar 3 tablespoons apple juice ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon ¼ teaspoon ground ginger 1/8 teaspoon ground cloves ...

Canning is similar to bread making. Both can be intimidating to novice and experienced cooks alike. The recipes for both seem arduous. Canning requires not only cooking the fruits and vegetables, but ...

SEATTLE — Too many pears is a happy problem to have. At a sad time recently, someone sent a box of bereavement pears, not something to belabor here except to say that the gift — with one pear, ...