آموزش زبان انگلیسی
همه چیز درباره زبان(گرامر-نمونه سوال-داستان انگلیسی...)آموزش زبان انگلیسی
همه چیز درباره زبان(گرامر-نمونه سوال-داستان انگلیسی...)Pears
Pyrus communis
Family: Rosaceae
Description
& storage
Pear: sweet juicy yellow or green fruit with a
rounded shape that becomes narrower towards the stalk.
Pears are picked
when they are almost ripe. The fruit has to come off if you lift the fruit
vertically.
The late races can be kept for months at a dark
place.
Pears ripen best at room temperature. If you want
too keep them a few days you have to keep them in a dark and cold
place.
Tree
A pear tree can grow upto 20 m. high.
Therefore most pears are grafted on a quince stem so they stay
smaller.
Short histotory
Pears are original from Europe and
Asia. The first cultivated races were selected from the wild varieties in the
prehistoric ages. The Romans knew in the beginning 6 cultivated sorts and later
mention 56 races. A late medieval Italian list mentions 232
varieties.
Around
1640 in England only 60 varieties were known. In 1842 more than
700.
In 1860 the
American author T.W. Fields mentions 850 races.
This fast increase of pear cultivars during
the late 18th century can be ascribed to a few French and Belgian
cultivators.
Types and family
Quince:
A quince is a pear
like fruit that only can be eaten cooked. The dictionary describes it as the
following - a nice smelling fruit that grows on trees that grow upto 6 m.
high.
Quinces are a very old fruittype that are originally from Persia.
Quinces are not consumed raw but are used for Marmelo which is stil very popular
in Spain and Portugal. This marmelo has been the example for the marmelade we
make out of citrusfruit today.
Use
Normal pears are mostly eaten raw and taste
great in desserts, the small cooking pears are always cooked and eaten as a
vegetable or dessert and quinces are mostly processed to a kind of
marmelade.
Other peculiar characteristics
-Pears contain much kalium and riboflavine;
-Pears are good for the skin and contain plenty of fibers;
-5-a-day-tips:
- have fresh ripe pears as a side dish with dinner.
- Vanilla ice-cream with pears, chocolate sauce and
cream.
