This is an easy way to store pears and the dried slices make a great healthy snack or can be chopped and added to cakes and muffins as an alternative to sultanas or raisins.
You'll need two roomy bowls and either a food dehydrator or a load of oven trays lined with greaseproof paper.
Half fill one of the bowls with water and juice of half a lemon
Half fill the other bowl with hot water and the juice of the other half of the lemon and a couple of teaspoons of honey.
Using a peeler or a sharp knife skin each pear and as soon as you are finished peeling each one pop it in the bowl with water and lemon juice.
When you can't put any more in that bowl take out a pear and thinly slice it, dropping the slices into the bowl with water and lemon and honey in it.
Once all your pears are sliced arrange them on the dehydrators trays, or your oven trays, so that each slice has a little space around it.
Place the oven trays in a very low oven (60 C) and check infrequently till they are leathery
Stack the dehydrator trays on the dehydrator base and turn on at a low heat.
When the pears are dry and leathery they can be stored in an airtight jar
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