Sunday, September 15, 2013

Apple Pear

There was a new-to-me fruit in our produce basket this week.  It looked like an apple, but tasted like a pear.  Appropriately enough, it was called a apple pear.

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According to wikipedia, Pyrus pyrifolia (colloquially known as apple pear due to its appearance and texture) is a pear species native to China, Japan, and Korea.  The variety in our basket had skin the color of a Bartlett.  When I took a bite it was perfectly ripe.  And messy.  The juice ran down my arm as I was eating it.

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11 comments:

  1. Hmmm. I think that would be a disappointment. Pears are marginally OK. It's the juice down the arm and the grainier than apples texture I don't like.

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    1. I LOVE a good pear. I love a good apple, too, though.

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  2. I'm familiar with these, they are also called Ya pears. There is also a crunchy brown variety, the name of which escapes me right now.

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    1. I'll have to look more carefully at the grocery stores around here. I bet they carry them, even though I've never noticed.

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  3. I love pears...and yours sounded sweet and juicy! I'll have to try these...I've seen them but never bought them! Someone gave us a huge box of pears this weekend. I am going to have to figure out some recipes to use them up...I'm sure they will all ripen together! Uh oh! haha.

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    1. I bet your extra pear 'using up' will turn into a blog post :-)

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  4. We really like those. We call it Korean Pears. However, they are really expensive.

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    1. I wonder if the price is because of the difficulty in growing them or the distance they need to be shipped?

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  5. We've had here for decades a fruit called Asian pear which tastes like a pear but has the crisp crunch of an apple. I occasionally buy them when I can get organic ones. I use pears in my juicing so just bought a bag of bartlett pears to use for that.

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    1. Since it's coming up on pear season I suspect those bartlett's will be especially tasty!

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