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"Italian Abate Fetel pear shortage offers space for South African pears"

The Argentinian Pear dominates the Southern Hemisphere pear market but is expected to have a lower than usual performance this season.

Pears Recipes © 2020 CTC Productions Pty Limited. All rights reserved. The material presented on this website, may not be reproduced or distributed, in whole or in part, without the prior written permission of CTC Productions. Pears notes Pears are wonderful eaten on their own. Either choose from traditional pear varieties such as Williams, Packham, Beurre Bosc or Corella, all of which you eat when ripe. Or just go out and try the wonderful, crisp, juicy Nashi pear anytime, which is eaten crisp, like an apple. Cheese platter tips Pears, grapes, cheese and crackers make an easy and delicious...

THERE’S something in the “apple-a-day” adage – founder of Beltana Grange Orchard in Pialligo, Bert Hauptmann has just turned 99 and says he still loves apples as much as when he was a boy.  He says he’s not quite himself on the day we meet, following a covid jab, but Bert, one of Canberra’s first apple growers, is always ready with a laugh and a story of the early days of the orchard.  When he first bought the Pialligo property in 1952, he grew veggies “down by the river flat, before the road came in”, he says, as well as raising a large flock of chickens, supplying eggs a...

2 tbsp sugar or honey 1 cup (250ml) water ½ tsp vanilla paste, or 1 tsp extract 1 cinnamon stick Nicola Galloway Although they are somewhat trickier to prepare, compared to apples, with their tougher skin and denser flesh, quinces have a more pronounced, tart flavour, so need a little extra sugar, and turn a glorious amber once cooked. Method Prepare the poached quince. Combine the water, sugar, lemon juice and zest, and vanilla in a saucepan. Slice the peeled quince in large chunks around the core, then slice into 1cm wedges. Add the quince to the pan as you go to prevent browning. Co...