Pear Recipes and Cooking Resources

In general, various pear varieties are interchangeable unless coloring is important. These recipes use fresh, dried, and canned pears or pear juice.

Texas A&M University has canning and preserving information, plus a few recipes.

How to tell when a pear is ripe and how to ripen them from USA Pears.

A collection of pear recipes from the pages of Gourmet and Bon Appetit Magazines.

History, varieties and a few recipes in this feature by Ethel Hammer.

You'll find over 600 recipe references to pears in the SOAR search engine.

Over sixty recipes, broken down into categories by pear type, plus much more pear information.