"zxcvbob" > wrote in message
...
> Melba's Jammin' wrote:
> > In article <069ui.5128$7m5.1814@trndny02>,
> > "Julie Bove" > wrote:
> >
> >> I still have a few jars of canned pears left from last year. Anyone
have a
> >> creative use for them? I used a couple of cans and made a pear crisp
but it
> >> wasn't a big winner. I'd like to get them used up before the pears on
the
> >> trees are ripe. Not that we're going to have enough to can this year
mind
> >> you. Husband attacked the trees with his pruning shears and it wasn't
good.
> >
> > With a dollop of cottage cheese in the center, atop a lettuce leaf. Top
> > the cheese with a maraschino cherry. Right out of the 1950s. :-)
> >
> > Puree and cook to fruit butter consistency.
> > Dice and combine with other fruits as "sauce."
>
>
> IIRC, I used to eat them (in the 60's) atop a lettuce leaf with a small
> dollop of Miracle Whip in the center and a little grated "rat cheese"
> (sharp cheddar cut from a wheel at the butcher shop) over the top.
>
> Bob

That's the way Mom makes them with a substitution of Mayo for the MW and
topped with a cherry.

KW