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apple pear jam inside jar with spoon

Apple Pear Syrup


  • Author: Executive Chef Jessica Lewis, The Oaklander Hotel’s Spirits & Tales
  • Yield: 1 cup 1x

Ingredients

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  • 7 Gala apples, very sweet, juicy, and crisp
  • 7 D’Anjou pears, soft, juicy, and mildly sweet
  • ¼ cup water
  • ½ cup cane sugar

Instructions

  1. Wash, core, and quarter fruit (keep skin on).
  2. Put whole fruit in pot, pears on the bottom. Pour 1/4 cup water in the pot. Turn pot on low heat and cover with lid for 1 hour and 30 minutes.
  3. Check to make sure your flame isn’t too high, the apples and pears should be slowly steaming. Then pour out liquid into a smaller pot.
  4. Put apple/pear mix between two pan trays and squeeze as hard as you can to get juice out, Angle over pot for juice to stream into.
  5. Add ½ cup of cane sugar into small pot and turn on medium heat.
  6. Bring to simmer and let go for 10 to 15 minutes until maple syrup-like consistency.
  7. Syrup should be thick and sticky consistency on spoon and not be too sweet. Cool.