Last night in an effort to use up the last of the pears we remade the Italian Pear Cake. This time we added cinnamon and chocolate chips - a brilliant addition if I do say so myself.With last week's peach ice cream fresh on our minds we thought we'd try pear ice cream with the cake. D used the same recipe but substituted pears.Have you ever had pear ice cream? It was DELICIOUS!I don't think he measured anything but the basic recipe is something like this:1 cup cream1/2 cup milk1/2 cup fruit (I think he used more pear than this)1/8 tsp vanilla extract1/2 cup sugarMix the ingredients with a blender and then pour into the frozen ice cream maker, ours is similar to this but smaller. Churn until frozen.The ice cream was surprisingly pear flavored.Really.It was excellent. We had to eat the ice cream quickly so I don't have a photo of that. But trust me, it was good.I have some pears set aside in the fridge for another batch!
Italian Pear Cake
We have a bumper crop of pears again this year. After eating, freezing, and canning three bushels of purchased peaches we now have lots of pears from our trees. Yesterday, we tried this Italian Pear Cake. It used quite a few pears and tasted pretty yummy.
We could possibly be getting lots of raspberries too but we haven't battled the pumpkin vines to find them all yet. The pumpkins have grown from their patch up and over all of the raspberry plants.
I am busy cooking and canning tomato sauce every couple of days and this weekend will be trying my hand at canning pears. The canned peaches turned out great so we thought we would try the pears.Ahhh. This is August.
Gratitude
I am grateful for the abundance of food in our garden.
