Filling the Jars

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1. Prepare your jars and rubber gaskets. Scrub and wash them well with soapy water. Rinse off well, there shouldn't be any soap in your jars.
2. Place the rubber gaskets into a pan with water to boil them. This is to kill all germs well.
3. Rinse your pears well. Peel, cut into quarters and core your pears.
4. Place pear quarters into your jars. Fill each jar with pears up to the top.
5. Prepare the simple syrup by heating the water and stirring in the sugar. Dissolve the sugar well into the water and heat it, but don't boil.
6. Make sure the pears are fitting properly in the jars. Tab the jar on a surface so that the fruit pieces fill up the space in the jar.
7. Put a rubber gasket on the jar.
8. With a ladle, fill each jar with syrup. Cover pears completely.
9. Close your jars properly with the latch.

Canning the Jars with the Water Bath Technique

1. Place closed jars next to each other in a water bath canner. If your canner comes with a rack, place the jars on the rack as per canner instructions.
2. Fill canner with water. The jars should be submerged in water and the water should cover the lids by at least ½ or a full inch.
3. Close the canner with the lid and set the temperature indicator.
4. Heat up water bath canner gradually to 200 Fahrenheit or 90 Celsius. This can take about 20–30 minutes, depending on your heat source.
5. Once you hit 200 Fahrenheit or 90 Celsius, turn off the heat completely and leave the canner to sit for another 30 minutes.
6. When done canning, take out hot jars carefully with a jar lifter and place them next to each other on a kitchen towel so that they dry and cool off.
7. Once cooled off, store your jars in a cool and dry environment on a shelf, away from direct sunlight. *See Notes
8. Use canned pears in your food and the syrup is good too.