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Birnen einmachen geht an sich ganz einfach.
Ich hab im Internet nach ein paar Tips gesucht und mir dann mit den Gewuerztechnisch zur Verfuegung stehenden Mitteln was zusammen geschustert.

Ich hatte ca. 2.5kg Mini Birnen.
Diese saeubern und halbieren. Bei grossen Birnen, Kerngehaeuse entfernen, bei Minibirnen ruhig drin lassen.

Ca. 1.5 L Wasser in einen grossen Topf, 1 kg Zucker dazu, ca. 5 EL Honig (bei mir war’s Bluetenhonig vom Imker), das ganze aufkochen, bis der Zucker aufgeloest ist.

4 Lorbeerblaetter und 1/2 Tuete schw. Pfefferkoerner, ca. 100ml Essig und 300ml Apfelessig und die Birnen dazu.

Ca. 30-45 Minuten kochen lassen, zwischendrin umruehren.

In saubere Glaeser abfuellen und bei jedem die Birnen bis zum Glasrand mit Sauce bedecken.

An einem dunklen, kuehlen Ort lagern.

Es schmeckt suesslich aber nicht zu suess.

Fertig.

How to preserve pears?

It’s actually not that hard.
I checked the net for various ideas and made something up with the ingredients I had in my kitchen.

I had about 2.5 kg of Mini pears. You clean them and cut them in halves. With the small ones you can let the stones be, with big ones you need to cut that part away.

I used about 1.5 L of Water in a huge pot, added 1 kg of sugar and 5 big spoon fulls of honey, heat the whole thing on the stove until the sugar is melted.

Added some laurel leaves, half a pack of black pepper seeds, about 100ml vinegar and 300ml apple vinegar.

Add the pears, let it cook for 30-45 minutes. When the pears are soft, but not mushy, fill them in clean glasses with a lid and make sure the liquid covers the fruit.

Store it in a cool, dark area.

It tastes a bit sweet, but not overwhelming.

Done.

Heavily armed that is

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Magyar Pásztorkutyák Terelőversenye (part 2)

Like I said, today I have been out and about in the Duna Dráva Nemzeti park at Drávaszentes and here are the first shots.

The whole event is about a special race of dog, bred here in Hungary and called Pulli (sorry, don’t know the correct spelling - officially they seem to be known as “Pásztorkutyák")
Correct me anyone, if I’m wrong

They had some local artist and vendors there, lots of press people with cameras and horse riding, a wagon that took you on a tour through the park, bow shooting, sheep shearing, a small bird show and the main event, the sheep parcours with the sheep herder and the shepherd dog.

More of the above another day. Today I’ll show you just a few of the dog part.

They first had to get the sheep out of the fenced in area,

get them in another corner, from there through some hay stacks in another corner and from there a slalom around some sticks

and back into the fenced in area.
Not easy.
At all.

Some dogs were a bit too eager

Plus, today was the hottest day in at least two months. My brain is fried. I don’t know how the people on that parcours felt, nor do I really want to know how the sheep felt after that day.

Btw. the sheep have a special name too, but I sure as heck don’t know it.

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Magyar Pásztorkutyák Terelőversenye (part 1)

Will be here today.

Duna Drava Nemzeti park at Drávaszentes

There’s a “festival” today with dog show and who knows what else.
Hope the weather stays decent and I can snap some good shots.

And nope, our two precious doggies will stay at home like good doggies, so I have my hands free to snap