Judy's Pear Honey

PEAR HONEY


Since many of us have a few pears laying around, here is a great recipe for them. Compliments of Judy G.

9 lbs. of pears

7 lbs. of sugar

1 cup cider vinegar

1 stick cinnamon and 1 stick for each jar

Peel and core and quarter pears,  add 4 lbs. sugar,  1 cup vinegar, and cinnamon stick, then let sit overnight to draw out juices.

In morning drain juice in large kettle and add rest of sugar and bring to boil then add pears.  Reduce heat and cook slowly for 2 hours.  Syrup should have a honey color and pears are transparent.  Don’t cook with cinnamon stick. 

Pack pear honey in hot jars and place cinnamon stick in each jar, then seal and preserve in hot water bath.  The color gives the recipe its name.

Judy sends her love to all.

Book Club

Dear book club friends,

We decided to have a potluck in October--cooking recipes specifically from  Animal, Vegetable, Miracle in addition to discussing our book of the month.  If you don't have access to the book anymore, you can get the recipes online at: http://www.animalvegetablemiracle.com/Recipes.html.  If you can let me know what you plan to make, or broadcast it ("reply all") to the group, then we can make sure we don't have duplicates.  So, if you'd like to take part in the potluck, we plan to meet for dinner at 6:45 at Sharidean's house.  If you can't make it for the potluck, book discussion will begin at 8 as usual.
October 12 at 6:45 (for dinner and discussion) and/or 8 PM (for discussion only) at Sharidean's house: The Miracle of Freedom: Seven Tipping Points That Saved the World by Chris Stewart and Ted Stewart (320 pages, hardcover) Chris and Ted Stewart make a strong case that fewer than 5 percent of all people who have ever lived on the earth have lived under conditions that we could consider free. So where did freedom come from, and how are we fortunate enough to experience it in our day? A deeper look at the human record, write the authors, reveals a series of critical events, obvious forks in the road leading to very different outcomes, that resulted in this extraordinary period in which we live. They identify and discuss seven decisive tipping points:
1. The defeat of the Assyrians in their quest to destroy the kingdom of Judah
2. The victory of the Greeks over the Persians at Thermopylae and Salamis
3. Roman Emperor Constantine's conversion to Christianity
4. The defeat of the armies of Islam at Poitiers
5. The failure of the Mongols in their effort to conquer Europe
6. The discovery of the New World
7. The Battle of Britain in World War II
North Logan Library has one paper book and an audio book that I will attempt to get at my first opportunity.  The Logan Library also has both, but the audio version has an enormously long wait.  The paper copy wait is 24 days--Pat, can you reserve it ASAP?
November 9 at 8 PM at Pat Marshall's house: The Whistling Season by Ivan Doig (352 pages, paperback) is set in the past in rural eastern Montana—and addresses that time and place in distinct, uncluttered prose that carries the full enthusiasm of affection and even love—for the landscape, the characters, and the events of the story—without being sentimental or elegiac. The novel is narrated by an aging Montana state superintendent of schools, Paul Milliron, who is charged with deciding the fate of the state's last scattered rural schools, and who, in the hours preceding his meeting to determine those schools' fate, recalls the autumn of 1909, when he was 13 and attending his own one-room school in Marias Coulee.Recently widowed, Paul's father, overwhelmed by the child-rearing duties presented by his three sons, in addition to his challenging farming duties, hires a housekeeper, sight unseen, from a newspaper ad. The housekeeper, Rose, proclaims that she "can't cook but doesn't bite." She turns out to be a beguiling character, and she brings with her a surprise guest—her brother, the scholarly Morris, who, though one of the most bookish characters in recent times, also carries brass knuckles and—not to give away too much plot—somehow knows how to use them.The schoolteacher in Marias Coulee runs away to get married, leaving Morris to step up and take over her job. The verve and inspiration that he, an utter novice to the West, to children and to teaching children, brings to the task is told brilliantly and passionately, and is the core of the book's narrative, with its themes of all the different ways of knowing and learning, at any age.

This book is available at the North Logan Library, and Pat has also reserved the book club set from Logan Library, but it may not be available until after Oct. 24.

Finally, the website Janet mentioned for getting books is:  http://www.alibris.com/

Happy reading,
                   Julie, 563-6619

August 28

The Stake Super Swap is coming up., September 10th.  It is open to the public at 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.  Drop your stuff off on September 9th (5:00 - 9:00 p.m.) and then go shopping the next day.  Sounds like fun!

Do you have extra produce from your yard or garden?  Are you like me and can't stand to look at another tomato after canning them for weeks, but they keep coming? Well, then sign up on our produce exchange, and someone can enjoy them and they won't go to waste!

Our next Relief Society activity will in September.  The theme is "Preserving for the Future".  Start thinking about some ideas you use to preserve, foods, memories, traditions, and heritage that you could share with the rest of us.

 The Relief Society General Broadcast will be Saturday  Sept. 24th at 6:00 p.m. in the Stake Center.

August 21

The Stake Super Swap is coming up., September 9th and 10th.  It is open to the public at 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.  Drop your stuff off on September 8th and then go shopping the next day.  Sounds like fun!

 The Relief Society General Broadcast will be Saturday  Sept. 24th at 6:00 p.m. in the Stake Center.

Summer afternoon - summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. ~Henry James

Love is to the heart what the summer is to the farmer's year - it brings to harvest all the loveliest flowers of the soul. ~Author Unknown

June 26

Softball  will be every Thursday, at 8:30 p.m. at Center street Church.  Just show up with a mitt if you’d like to play.

The Logan Temple will be closed July 4th through August 2nd for maintenance.  

The next Relief Society Activity will be July 14th at Bear Lake (more specifically, the Seeholzer’s Cabin).  Come spend the day with us relaxing in the sun and cooling off in the record high water!

June 12

The Logan Temple will be closed July 4th through August 2nd for maintenance.  You have a couple more weeks to still get some time in.

Youth Conference will be June 23rd through the 25th

Summer afternoon - summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

-Dame Edith Wharton

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.

- John Lubbock

May 22

Tuesday, May 31st is our Stake Temple Day.  Please attend any session to be a part of it.

Our next Relief Society Activity will be Thursday,  June 2nd at 6:30 pm in the Jenks backyard.  We will be sharing our favorite summer things, show-and-tell-style.  Please sign up if you have a favorite summer recipe, summer activity, summer clothing, or anything summer-related that you would enjoy sharing with us.