My mother always added whole cloves to hers. I don't have her recipe, but feel like it was sugar, cloves and sliced pears. That's how I remember it. I was given several of the canning pears this year and really enjoyed just eating them.
Edited to add: I went and started looking for recipes and realized I had made the assumption that you were using the canning pears as opposed to the softer pears that everyone eats as a standalone salad. The ones we had were the very firm, grainy ones. They were not the soft. We used them as preserves on our biscuits and pancakes. Brings back a lot of good memories. To this day, the canning pears are my favorite.
Last edited by Barb in Louisiana; 10-14-2019 at 08:20 PM.