tiny second crop bartlett pears

They may not be all that great for eating out of hand, but they'd make some dandy pear jam.

A neighbor here has a peach tree that is notorious for producing peaches no bigger than the size of a large ping pong ball. Not much for eating, but when she gave us a couple bags full of them, I made a wonderful peach butter.

This recipes uses the canning process:

http://allrecipes.com//Recipe/grandmas-pear-preserves/Detail.aspx

If you've never canned before, here's a step by step recipe and instructions with photos of each step:

http://www.pickyourown.org/pearjamandjelly.htm

And here's a recipe for pear freezer jam that doesn't require canning.

http://frugalliving.about.com/od/recipes/r/Pear_Jam.htm

That's what I did, I made a freezer version of the peach butter jam.