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  • ricette

From starters to dessert…

Ingredients (serves 4)
1 ripe Williams pear
100 cl of grappa
1 g of cinnamon

30 g of sugar

 

Instructions: put all the ingredients to steep in an airtight jar in the sun for about two months. After the two months have passed, filter and bottle the liquor. This liquor is also great sprinkled over ice cream or other desserts. Traditionally, a small pear still attached to the branch removed from the tree was inserted into the bottle. The bottle was hung upside down so the rain would not get in and the fruit kept growing in the bottle which was later filled with grappa.

 

Tips

Fruit with a reddish bloom on the skin (except for coloured varieties) grew at the highest of the foliage, where the alternation between sunlight and overnight dew encourages such redness.

The date of flowering from one year to the next may differ by a couple of weeks, while the harvest date tends to be stable. The duration of the fruit growing cycle depends significantly on environmental conditions, especially in the ripening stage.

Pears are harvested slightly unripe, otherwise it would not be possible keep them for long periods as is the case today. Nevertheless, it is possible to complete ripening naturally at a later stage with suitable precautions.