Pear Preserves - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 qt. pears, sliced or chopped
3 c. water or juice
4 1/2 c. sugar
6 slices lemon (optional)

Preparation

Pare fruit (if hard, cook until tender in water).
Make syrup of liquid and sugar; add fruit to partly cooled syrup and bring gently to boil.
Add lemon.
Boil rapidly until clear and tender. Let stand in syrup to cool.
Reheat syrup to boiling.
Pour fruit and boiling syrup into jars within 1/2 inch from top.
Put caps, screw lids firmly tight.
Process in boiling water bath 10 minutes. Yields 10 (8 ounce) jars.