Bartlett Pear

Keri — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 22:44:06 +0000

If there are at least three different bottles of hand sanitizer within 20 feet of you at all times, then this Bartlett Pear is the fruit for you!

APPEARANCE 4 out of 5 stars

Nice yellow and red skin, gets lots of bruises though so be gentle.

AROMA 4.5 out of 5 stars

Full and fragrant, sultry pear.

TEXTURE 4 out of 5 stars

Perfectly firm but giving; slightly grainy, like most pears.

TASTE 3.5 out of 5 stars

The quintessential pear – nothing detracting but nothing I would go on about either. At least it doesn’t have the papery skin or a bitter aftertaste.

OVERALL 4 out of 5 stars

This is a prissy person’s pear. It tastes very good but doesn’t drip juice all over you (though there is plenty of juice, don’t get me wrong). It discolors easily so there is value in taking great care when transporting it or it will look like the morning consequences of a late night brawl. Also it is normal enough that assuming you haven’t bruised the hell out of it, no attention will be drawn when you slice and eat it with a fork and knife. It’s everything someone uptight needs in an afternoon snack.

FRUIT

Pear

VARIETY

Bartlett

PEAK

Fall-Winter

GROWN

Unknown

PURCHASED

Grocery Store

NOTES

I was about to dismiss this pear as forgettably normal, when I came across this article. Apparently the Bartlett is the same as the Williams Pear, which is the very pear that is used for Williams Pear Schnapps, aka “au de vie of poire williams”. (Don’t I just sound so much more impressive when I say it in French? Yes, I am also currently wearing a tiara.) So of course this immediately caught my cocktail loving attention. Unfortunately, every site I found explaining how to make pear liquor of one kind or another requires crazy things like meat grinders and hammers, growing pears inside a glass bottle, or having access to something called “acid blend“. Fun? Yes. Gonna happen? No. Let me know if you give it a whirl. In the meantime I will be checking out all the pear cocktails on this dedicated pear cocktail blog. And you thought a site about fruit was a narrow niche. Au contraire.

RECIPES

Butternut Squash and Bartlett Pear Soup
Bartlett Pear Muffins (this is an entire site dedicated to pears!)

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