To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: [NAFEX] Keiffer a dessert pear?
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 10:36:02 -0500
At 10:55 AM 4/4/2009, mIEKAL wrote:
Kiefer is a dessert pear, hard skin,
a bit bitter, sweet & fragrant on this inside with a bit of the
dessert pear grit...
Wow! That's a first! I don't think I've ever seen anyone put Keiffer
in the 'dessert' pear category.
It is one of my favorites - it's THE pear of my childhood, it's
fireblight tolerant, and bears heavily despite benign neglect.
But most folks denigrate it as barely edible(not ME!), and relegate
it to the 'canning/preserves' category.