The recipe says to use 5 1/2 cups of finely chopped peeled cored pears - it says that's about 8 medium pears. The pears I used were what I would consider small to medium but it took less than 8 of them chopped in a small dice to make 5 1/2 cups.

The limes were from our tree and much larger than grocery store ones. The three limes produced about a cup of juice.

It only yielded a bit under 2.5 pints but the recipe says it should yield about 3.5 pints.

Did it mean to chop them in a food processor rather than hand chop them? Perhaps that would have packed more densely for measuring but I thought I had the measuring cup pretty packed. I like the texture with the very small dice I used.

The flavor was really good so I made another double batch and the quantity came out about the same - 4.5 pints plus about a half cup.

I wish more recipes gave weight rather than volume for ingredients. Even recipes that give the ingredients by weight often say they yield more than they do.

Is there something I'm doing wrong that reduces the yield?

I finally just quit worrying about it. I'm not sure how those yields are arrived at but I'm assuming there's such variation in chopping methods, water content and sizes of items that the yields are seldom much more than ballpark figures.

Carol

The recipe gives general guidelines only as there is simply no way to anticipate for the many different methods and interpretations folks will make with the same recipe.

"Chopped" means lots of different things to different people.

Dave

Deanna

Ball/Bernardin could do so but why mess with a good thing? Their profits are through the roof as is.

Carol