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["Bob Capshew" <rcapshew@insightbb.com>]

Shirley,

 

Too many Asian pears is a great problem!  First I would eat all them

that you can.  This helps you to learn the differences in tastes and

textures.  There are many recipes to try.  Here is a link to several

Asian pear recipes. 

 

http://www.indexfresh.com/asianpear_recipes.htm

 

Asian pears are also great to juice.  Unlike European pears that

grind into almost nothing, Asian pear texture is more like apples.

If you have a cider or wine press you can add rice hulls to get better

extraction.  After you have the juice, you can ferment into perry, a

hard pear cider with ~7% alcohol by volume.  Perry is like hard apple

cider but has a small amount of residual sweetness from sorbitol

that makes a unique drink.

 

Enjoy,

Bob Capshew

S. Indiana, Zone 6

----- Original Message -----

From: EmailUser samurphy

To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org

Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 5:59 PM

Subject: [NAFEX] Asian pear recipes and preservation

This is the first year that my Asian Pear has produced and it was a bumper crop!  Now I am trying to find a way to use them and to save the wonderful taste to enjoy throughout the winter.  Has anyone had eperience with cooking, freezing, canning them?  Can they be preserved in a wine or other alcohol mixture?  Any ideas and recipes would be appreciated.

This was a terrific year here for apples too. 

 

Shirley 

Southwest TN

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