ClO - Wednesday, November 23, 1983 - North Shore News

Perfect pear specimens are here

DEAR READERS: Thank you for your trust and
confidence, but the fact is, my contribution to this
page is contained within the confines of this col-
umn. So when you phone to ask me where to buy
that kind of beans, or what temperature the
pumpkin-fluff pie would cook at, or send me your
entry for the Recipe-of-the-Week, I can only turn
you off, or make a wild, and unfair, guess.

It’s a pleasure to me to talk
with anyone who finds enter-
tainment in cookery, but !

hate to disappoint such
enthusiasts.

This is my stuff.

It’s about fruit, today,

something I don’t have much
to do with, as a rule, maybe
because apples do poorly in
the snow. For strawberries |
have confessed to you a pas-
sion, but my _ relationships
with most other fruits are so
lukewarm as to be quite bor-

ing.

But there are glimmerings
of a romance between me and
Japanese 20th Century pears.
(i mean, really, — what a
handle! Like calling the
newborn baby Algernon
Marmaduke Humphrey
Whatsit.) One of those
mysterious packages that
turn up at the News office
every once in while contained

three of them. Huge things
they are, smooth, hard, iden-
ticaly pale yellow, nestling in

| had been aware of
Chinese pear-apples, as they
call them, and had tried one
once. It was certainly juicy,
and certainly crisp, but it fail-
ed to light a flame in my
heart. These from Japan,
however, such uniform
monsters, quite without
blemish, look as though they
were produced by some neat-
ly programmed agency
besides a tree.

In fact, they are indeed

the kitchen ranger

by Eleanor Godley

cute little coats woven of soft
white plastic foam. I was in-
trigued.

FIRST AID TIP

MINOR BURNS AND SCALDS

@ Lessen the spread of heat in the
tissue and relieve pain by immersing
the burned area in a basin of cold
water @ if a sink or basin is not
available apply cloths soaked in cold
water ® Don't piace a burn under
extreme water pressure as that pres
sure may damage the tissues further
@ Periodically add ice to the cloths or
coid water @ This process should be
continued as lang as there its pain
® Do not apply butter, omtments or
ot dressings

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tificially pollinated, and each
fruit as it appears is carefully
covered with a waxed paper
bag to protect it from ig-
norant insects or passing
germs. They are picked by
hand. Yet for something so
coddled from birth, they
have remarkable staying
powers, and if refrigerated
will maintain their handsome
looks and delicious eating
qualities, literally for
months.

For they are delicious.
Fresh, crisply tender, full of
cool sophisticated unsweet
flavor, and amazingly juicy.
When cut, surfaces must be
wiped with lemon juice or a
fruit preservative to
discourage discoloring, but
this in no way retards their
seductiveness,

We were having that curry
the day they arrived, and a
great contribution to the
pleasure of the condiments
was made by a dish full of
short sticks of pear. Their

chilly succulence was a
perfect foil to the pungent
curry.

Not often do I bother with
lunch for myself when I am
home alone, but some left-
over fried chicken tempted
me ta dice it, along wih half a

day

Japanese pear, and mix it
with some walnut pieces,
mayonnaise and mango
chutney. What a salad. It
would make a great company
dish, with some green grapes
included, and perhaps tiny
scraps of pimiento for color.
Enjoy. They’re here to stay.

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