Today is lunch with your friends you only see once in a while and you want a “small” gift to show how much you care!
Your grandmother’s favorite GINGER PEAR PIE recipe in a vintage Ball jar with a coaster-size piece of French toweling or one with a hand-stitched border and a personalized tag is perfect!
- 1½ cups sugar
- 1 cup golden raisins
- ½ cup lemon juice
- ½ cup butter, cut into pieces
- 6 tbs. cornstarch
- ¼ cup crystallized ginger, finely chopped
- 30 oz. thinly sliced pears (or two 15 oz. cans Bartlett pear slices, drained)
- Prepared graham cracker crust
- Using cookie cutter, cut pie crust into circles that fit bottom of jar. Place each pie crust circle in jar bottoms.
- In medium saucepan, combine all ingredients except pears and crust.
- Bring mixture to boil over medium heat, stirring constantly. Boil 2 minutes, until mixture is no longer cloudy.
- Remove from heat and stir in pears. Pour filling into jars over pie crust.
- Refrigerate until chilled. Top with whipped cream, serve.
You will want to label those adorable ginger pear in a jar recipes. You can make the pear shaped labels using:
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Sizzix Bigz Die w/Bonus Textured Impressions - Pear & Menu Tags
- Sizzix BIGkick. (This machine works with the entire Sizzix library (except Bigz Pro dies) and cuts and embosses many different materials.)
Did you know Jo Packham has designed a new Where Women Cook Collection for Sizzix? You’ll find examples of some of the delicious projects you can make with the collection in the new Eat at Jo’s feature in Where Women Cook magazine. To see some of our latest Sizzix projects, check out our Eat at Jo’s Pinterest board.
See more Sizzix project ideas in the Dec/Jan/Feb 2014 issue of Where Women Cook Magazine. Click here to subscribe or purchase Where Women Cook.
