Pickled Pear Sticks with Cinnamon Candy Red Hots

Try this delicious and easy recipe for pickled pears. I love them any time of the year ~ especially eaten cold with a sandwich and potato chips!

8 - 10 medium ripe pears - sliced thin
1 tablespoon whole cloves
2 cups cider vinegar
2 cups granulated sugar
1/2 cup red hot cinnamon candies

First, make syrup with vinegar, sugar, and red hots. Boil syrup 10 minutes. Drop pear slices and cloves into boiling syrup. Cook, gently boiling until pears are tender. Pack pears into hot, sterile jars. Add hot syrup to come within 1/4" of top, then seal. Process about 15 minutes in hot water bath.

Chill before serving.