To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: [NAFEX] Asian Pear ultra low brix
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 01:17:58 -0700
My neighbor has an Asian pear and has been giving me some of his
harvest. I'm not wild about pears in general, but like European
pears better than Asian. Most people like European pears far riper
and sweeter than I do. I actually like them crisp. But these Asian
pears are the lowest sugar pears I've ever eaten. It's more like
eating vegetables. I don't know whether that's because he's
harvesting them too early (the tree has fireblight and I alerted him
to that so he's been pruning things) or what.
I'm pretty broke right now due to having taken a month off for
surgery and recovery so I can't turn my nose up at free food. Does
anyone have any serving ideas for making these pears more
pleasurable? Lemon and brown sugar?
Spidra Webster
Zone 9b Berkeley, CA
[NAFEX] Asian Pear ultra low brix,
Spidra Webster, 09/06/2007