"The Ranger" > wrote in message
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> Well, as wonderful as home-grown, branch-ripened fruit are, there is a
> point where a bountiful can over-produce. I'm at such a point with my
> Anjou pear tree. I haven't touched the thing for the last nine years and
> each year it has produced a moderate amount of fruit on each branch. This
> last year, my FIL (the man that has an eternal green thumb) saw its
> "feral" state and assisted me in retraining so it wasn't an eye-sore.
> <sigh> I can't prove it but he must've fed it steroids at some point. The
> damned thing is killing me in pears.
>
> I'm looking for alternatives to serving Anjou pears beyond,
> cut-from-tree-and-eat.
>
> Many thanks.
>
> The Ranger

Keep them wrapped and cool and give them away to a food bank or just call
any homeless shelter or church. The ones you keep would make excellent
preserves such as pear butter.

Paul