Pear

The pear is a fleshy Fruit (in fact, on the botanical level, a False-fruit), with pips, common Poirier, a tree of the rosacée family of the S.

Description

Maturity

Like the Banana and the lawyer, the pear does not mature in a satisfactory way on the tree. Its flesh becomes indeed sandy or granulous there. Hardly ripe, one it picking thus to preserve it out of warehouses cooled at controlled atmosphere where it finishes to mature. Under these conditions, the Amidon is transformed into Sucre and the fruit remains firm with a smooth, tender and pleasant texture.

History

The pear tree is a tree originating in China whose fruits, the pears, are selected since highest Antiquity.

The tradition reports that the sovereigns coming to be made crown with Rheims, received in gift a pear and a cut of champagne. Louis XV, Louis XVI and even Marie Louise were gratifiés by it. Charles X also tasted some at the time of its sacring in 1825 while the mayor of Rheims told him " We offer to you what we have of better: our wines, our pears and our hearts ".

Production

The pear is produced in the whole world in the zones with the adapted climate. The most important pear producers are the China, the Italy, the the United States and the Russia.

Varieties

There exist several hundreds of varieties of pears sometimes gathered under generic names such as Beurré (melting flesh), Bon-Chrétien or Poire bergamot. Initially, these names gathered the varieties having common properties but with time, these names lost a little of their specificity. One rather classifies them from now on per period of maturation:

Pears of summer

  • “Buttered Giffard”
  • “Bon chr3etien pear Williams” (France, 1500; also called “Williams” or “Bartlett”)
  • “Pear Guyot”
  • “Pérouille”

Pears of winter

Use

For the food

  • the pears are usually consumed fruits such as they are. The dessert made up of a pear to syrup, of a ball of ice cream vanilla, chantilly and hot chocolate is called " Beautiful-Hélène" pear; ;

  • the pear juice fermented gives a slightly alcoholic beverage called Poiré;

  • the pears can also be used to produce Eau-de-vie. Most known of them is obtained containing the Williams pear. Produced alcohol is commonly called Williamine or familiarly pear . The bottle of Williamine generally contains a pear in its center. With this intention, the producers introduce the pear starts-up still fixed on the pear tree into bottles which they suspend on the branches. While growing, the pear becomes impossible to arise. Space remaining is filled of Williamine.


For health

Others

  • In the language running, the pear has a rather pejorative connotation; “ to take somebody for a pear ”, it is straightforwardly to regard it as an imbecile whom one can easily berner. To the 19th century, the caricaturists were given some to heart joy against the king Louis-Philippe I {{er}} which they liked portraiturer in the shape of a pear.

  • more recently, in 1977, Renault knew a commercial fiasco with the model R14, in particular because of its noisy engine and of its lighting sensible to moisture. To try to regild the blazon of this car, a publicity campaign was assembled by Publicis, where the line of this car was imprudently compared with that of a pear. The agency thought of proposing the round lines and the sweetened taste of this fruit, and thus the idea of comfort and satisfaction. This humor with the second degree was not included/understood: could the potential buyers have the impression that they would be taken for a pear if one saw them at the wheel of this car? Always it is that this countryside marked the profession of the publicity agents at the point to become the prototype of a complete failure.

  • One guard a pear for thirst means that one keeps reserves.

  • To make swallow pears of anguish to somebody, it is him to give sorrow.
  • It does not promise soft pears to him is said when a man threatens another of them.
  • Between pear and the cheese it is on the end of the meal, when the cheerfulness which the good expensive one gives makes that one speaks freely.
  • a soft pear designates somebody who lack of will, of character.
  • the pear is also the face ( to be caught full the pear of it means that one takes a shock of face).

See too

External bonds

  • List of old pear tree and running still marketed

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