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Maui Onions
Two characteristics set the Maui onion apart from other yellow onions: the high sugar and high moisture content of its flesh.
White Corn
White corn is a sweet corn variety. Its ears are wrapped in tightly layered pale lime green to white husks. One ear of corn can contain up to 400 kernels growing in rows lengthwise.
Seasons/Availability
Taylor's Gold pears have a very short season typically making their debut during the summer months.
Description/Taste
Cinnamon-colored Taylor's Gold pears have a smooth uniform russet skin. Delicately perfumed, creamy, juicy and very tender, this special pear's flesh offers an extraordinary rich, sweet flavor.
Nutritional Value
Low in sodium, fat and calories, fresh pears have no cholesterol and provide a source of dietary fiber, vitamin C and folate.
Applications
Enjoy this particularly juicy pear fresh or slice and add to a variety of salads. Bake, pickle, can, freeze, make fresh baby food or jams, jellies and sauces. Cook into an all-fruit conserve; spread on toast, waffles or pancakes. Ripen fruit in a paper bag at room temperature. Refrigerate ripe fruit for only a day or two.
Ethnic/Cultural Info
Pears are one of the two dozen plants that have been cultivated for more than four thousand years. The Romans were especially fond of pears, according to Pliny, who two millennia ago, enumerated more than forty pear varieties.
Geography/History
A natural mutation of Doyenne du Comice, this russet Comice was first discovered by Michael King-Turner in his Riwaka orchard near Nelson, New Zealand, in 1986. This new russet pear is now available in limited quantities in some markets in the United States and has been named Taylor's Gold. New Zealand growers say the Taylor's Gold pear prefers cooler climates, similar to the climates in some areas of the Pacific Northwest.
Recipe Ideas
Recipes that include Taylor's Gold Pears. One
is easiest, three is harder.
Taylor's Gold pears have a very short season typically making their debut during the summer months.
Description/Taste
Cinnamon-colored Taylor's Gold pears have a smooth uniform russet skin. Delicately perfumed, creamy, juicy and very tender, this special pear's flesh offers an extraordinary rich, sweet flavor.
Nutritional Value
Low in sodium, fat and calories, fresh pears have no cholesterol and provide a source of dietary fiber, vitamin C and folate.
Applications
Enjoy this particularly juicy pear fresh or slice and add to a variety of salads. Bake, pickle, can, freeze, make fresh baby food or jams, jellies and sauces. Cook into an all-fruit conserve; spread on toast, waffles or pancakes. Ripen fruit in a paper bag at room temperature. Refrigerate ripe fruit for only a day or two.
Ethnic/Cultural Info
Pears are one of the two dozen plants that have been cultivated for more than four thousand years. The Romans were especially fond of pears, according to Pliny, who two millennia ago, enumerated more than forty pear varieties.
Geography/History
A natural mutation of Doyenne du Comice, this russet Comice was first discovered by Michael King-Turner in his Riwaka orchard near Nelson, New Zealand, in 1986. This new russet pear is now available in limited quantities in some markets in the United States and has been named Taylor's Gold. New Zealand growers say the Taylor's Gold pear prefers cooler climates, similar to the climates in some areas of the Pacific Northwest.
Recipe Ideas
Recipes that include Taylor's Gold Pears. One
is easiest, three is harder.
