Pears

Angelraesunshine

ooo chocolate i love that one thank you

dannahaz

Pears are notorious for being underripe one day, and rotting on the tree the next. Our tree tends to give us an abundance of pears every two years, and nothing in between.

If you hold a pear (on the tree) and pull very gently, it will come off if it is ripe, and will resist if its not.

spendaholic

Pears can start as early as August or run to the end of October, but they do have to be picked when they're ripe so the birds don't get them.

When I had pear trees, all we did was lift the fruit gently and if it came away from the tree, then it was ripe. If we had to tug, then it wasn't, and if it was on the floor, we were too late.

My favourite pear recipe is an upside down cake with half a cherry in the middle of each half pear where the pips would've gone. (Same as pineapple upside down cake, but with pears.)

You're lucky to have a pear tree that fruits. Good luck with it in the future too.

Angelraesunshine

i think i better get a ladder as the previous owner let the tree get out of hand and it is so tall the i dont think that me 5'2" on a step ladder will let me reach most of them.

Thanks for your help and recipes any more pear recipes are more than welcome

littleowl

Has anyone frozen poached pears? I have so many I can't use them at once.

kayjay1809

My OH came home earlier this week with a bag of pears. They don't appear to be ripening at all and remain as green as the day they were born.

Any ideas how I can use them up??

Thanks

harveybobbles

making booze...?!

nick_b

My wife will eat them. She doesn't like soft pears at all; the crunchier the better

kayjay1809

I like underipe fruit too, but there are loads of these and they are very very green!!

Come on everyone, surely there must be something I can use them for???

Pink.

Hi Kayjay,

This thread has some ideas that may help:

Pears

I'll merge your thread with that one later to keep all the suggestions together.

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