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  • From: Lucky Pittman <lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Asian pear recipes and preservation
  • Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:51:01 -0500

At 10:45 PM 9/10/2008, you wrote:
Shirley wrote:
 
"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."
 
Interesting.  My Shinko and Korean Giant also cropped for the first time, but I have yet to discover where their "wonderful taste" could possibly be hiding.  In fact, I have been weighing the choices of keeping them for making some sort of cider or wine out of them in future (neither will be very good unless the fruit actually sweeten up eventually) or just topgrafting them to something fit to eat.  Any suggestions? 
Donna,
Chojuro has nice flavor; it's my favorite Asian pear to date - and I agree, Shinko & KG are mostly just juicy without a whole lot of flavor.  Hosui was tastier than those two, but still not as good as Chojuro.  Niitaka's got some nice sized pears this year, but they're not exceptionally flavorful - but pretty and juicy.
Shinko is probably the heaviest producing Asian in my orchard year-in/year out. 
My friend Joe Real sent me a bottle of 20th Century pear wine a couple of years back - nice, and sweet - but I'm not much of a wine connoisseur; I liked his blueberry wine better.

Lucky





Half the fruit is setting in a shed and the other half is still on the tree in hopes that they will improve.  Right now I am looking forward to the Kieffers which at least have some flavor.     Donna, also in TN
 
 
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