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Beurré d'Anjou, from The Pears of New York (1921) by Ulysses Prentiss Hedrick. The D'Anjou pear, sometimes referred to as the Beurré d'Anjou or simply Anjou, is a short-necked cultivar of European pear. The variety was originally named 'Nec Plus Meuris' in Europe and the name 'Anjou' or 'd'Anjou' was erroneously applied to the variety when ...
Pears bake similarly to apples, so you can swap them out in many recipes where you use apples, like pies, crumbles, and galettes. Because of their lower acidity, I add a bit more lemon juice to ...
When choosing store-bought juice, Rizzo advises looking for products that say “100% juice” on the front and have a fruit or vegetable as the first ingredient — and preferably the only one.
Soft and sweet, tart and crunchy, mild and floral—there’s a pear variety to satisfy every palate. In fact, there’s a lot more to the humble pear than meets the eye, so...
Fermented pear juice is called perry or pear cider and is made in a way that is similar to how cider is made from apples. [5] [10] Perry can be distilled to produce an eau de vie de poire, a colorless, unsweetened fruit brandy. [61] Pear purée is used to manufacture snack foods such as Fruit by the Foot and Fruit Roll-Ups. [62] [63] [64]
Pears store (and ship) well in their mature but unripe state if kept cold, and can be ripened later, a process called bletting. Some varieties, such as Beurre d'Anjou, ripen only with exposure to cold. [citation needed] Fermented pear juice is called perry. In Britain, the place name "Perry" can indicate the historical presence of pear trees.
Pear cider has been used as an alternative name for alcoholic drinks containing pear juice, in preference to the term perry. [37] The term has been dated to 1995, when Brothers Cider found that nobody at Glastonbury Festival understood what perry was; they began telling customers that it was 'like cider, but made from pears'.
However, a natural pear-derived product from pear juice concentrate is sometimes used. The largest pear drop in the world is housed at Stockley's Sweets in Oswaldtwistle Mills in Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, England. [1] [2] In 2009 a survey of 4,000 adults found that pear drops were the fourteenth most popular sweet in the United Kingdom. [3]