Brown Butter Pear Crisp Recipe (2024)

FAQs

What is a pear bar? ›

It's like a dessert bar and an apple crisp had a baby, and that baby was a pear instead of an apple. And that pear was actually a few pears, sliced paper thin and nestled between a soft brown sugar crust and a homemade caramel sauce – with more crumbly crust sprinkled on top.

They're super versatile: Pair them with cheese, like for these Pear and Blue Cheese Crostini, turn them into amazing desserts, like Ree's Pear Crisp, or simply eat them out of hand! If you want to freeze pears simply for smoothies or sauces, go ahead and just cut up the pears and freeze them.

The most common way to write a paragraph for A-Level and GCSE is to use PEER or PEAR paragraph technique. For myself, I prefer to use the PEAR paragraph. PEAR stands for Point, Evidence, Analysis, Response.

It means that something has gone wrong. A plan has not worked as intended, and disappointment is the result. It originated with glass-blowing, when overheating caused a spherical shape to droop and take on the appearance of a pear.

Step 1: Prepare Fruit for the Deep Freeze Process

Prevent cut pears from browning by soaking in one quart of water with either one-half tablespoon salt, three-quarter teaspoon ascorbic acid (often sold as Fruit Fresh), or 3 tablespoons lemon juice. Drain fruit before preparing further for freezing.

Pears don't freeze well directly as they go mushy brown on thawing. Bringing slowly to simmering is the answer - simply boiling them will give you a brown pulp.

If planning to use pears uncooked, freeze using juice or water method. Freezing pears using dry packing or in sugar is the best method for pies or other cooked dishes. If planning to use pears in a sweetened jam, jelly, fruit butter, or sauce, try freezing using the juice or water method, but choose unsweetened juice.

St. George Spiced Pear Liqueur has an impeccable pedigree: It begins as our flagship pear brandy, to which we add cinnamon and clove. We then add luscious pear juice, which brings down the proof from still strength to 20% alcohol by volume, and balance the sweetness and acidity with organic cane sugar and malic acid.

In Mexico, these Opuntia cacti are known as “nopal,” derived from the Nahuatl word for prickly pear, “nochtli.” The Aztecs would use juice from this cactus to treat burns and other ailments, and they considered it sacred. This species is still consumed by people and wildlife today.

How do they get the pear into a bottle of Poire Williams liqueur? They place empty bottles over the new fruit on the trees and tie each bottle in place, allowing the pears to mature inside the bottle. It's quite a process, and it can be applied to many orchard fruits, including apples.

What are pears in Chinese culture? ›

In Chinese culture, pears are a symbol of parting because the word pear is hom*ophonic with the word for separation. With this in mind, don't share a pear with someone you love or bring pears when visiting someone in the hospital, as this gesture may be misunderstood and be taken as a farewell.