PEAR SLICES

Dehydrated - Sweetened Tropical Fruit
	PEAR SLICES Name in Spanish: Pera Rodajas Name in latín: Pyrus communis zoom

ASPECT AND DESCRIPCION Tree which pertains to a genre of the family of the rosaceous, original of the occidental zones of Asia and of the European template regions, whose bears fruit is the pear. In conditions of cultivation, the pear tree reaches an altitude of almost 10 meters, with a trunk of 30 cm of diameter or more. The Leaves are oval and simple and, unlike those of the apple tree, bald and shining. The flowers white, disposed in umbels, they have five sepals, five petals, numerous worsteds and an only pistil. The bear fruit is a bottle, juicier than the apple, whose makes up forms oscillates between those of this one and those of a tear. The skin is thin, according to the variety, it goes from the yellow until the green passing by the red and the leopard. Also the flavor of the pulp depends of the variety. The meat of the common green pear and of the Chinese of ripe sand contains numerous hard cell calls stony. The fruits are gathered of the still green tree, and they are stopped ripen in warehouse.
HISTORY It is known from the olden days, Homer remembers the cultured pears in the gardens of Alcinoo and of Laertes; Cato makes reference to six pear variety while that Plinio mentions no less that 41. The fruit has a sweet pulp and acidulated, the skin of the fruit varied of the green passing by the yellowish and reaching to the color rusts.
CULINARY USE It can be used directly as sweetened fruit being very tasty when it is mixed with semihard or hard cheeses. Also are able to be emaciated swamplands with chocolate or integrating the cubes of fruits in puddings and sweet bread. If it is boiled cocktail with other fruits of the same type is obtained very delicious compotes. Small pieces are able to be added to ice creams, cake fillings and exotic foods, accompanying meats vary while it is cooked in casseroles and have juice during the cooking.