Quimper Hittys

William’s Bon Chrétien

Coriander and Vanilla went out to the back garden – it’s time to harvest the William’s Bon Chrétien pears…

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Fruitful

…it’s a good crop this year – we try to pick them when they are green, just on the verge of yellow…

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Blush

…and starting to get a little blush of red or orange.

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perfect

This one is perfect! If you wait until they are yellow, or actually fall off the tree, they will be brown and sickly sweet inside….

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Bountiful

We gave the tree a hard prune in January to encourage it to make fruit on the lower branches where we could reach them – and we have a bountiful crop this year, so I guess it worked! We picked a basket of pears, and then there was a big windstorm! There were a lot of windfalls, so…

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chopped

…pear crumble in the making…

Yummy!

…and on the table!

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