Newswanger Pear-Butter Cooking

It is a tradition in my Mom's family to get together every

fall to cook pear-butter. Altogether we cook four batches

in these huge copper kettles; there has to be enough for
all thirteen families! All day long the sauce has to be stirred

nonstop. That could get tiresome but usually doesn't

because there are so many people to take turns.

They put far too much sugar in for my liking. I watched

in increasing horror as my uncles dumped in bag after bag!

They finally stopped after adding 30 pounds!

I have some cousins that, like me, enjoy cameras. Only, they

prefer to look at the pictures rather than take them. :-)

Apparently someone thought that my cousin had too much
tint on her windows!