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Welcome to the Celtnet glossary of food terms. As this recipe site has grown and the total number of recipes range across everythign from breakfast to brewing it has become obvious that a whole slew of recipe and cooking-associated terms are spread across the various pages of this site. These pages are an attempt at bringing all these recipe- and cookery-associated terms together into one place. To use this glossary simply click on the first letter of your term above or below. Alternativey why not just browse through the terms. You may well find something that surprises you!

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Food Glossary Entry For: Pear Plums

This is the description page for Pear Plums and includes a description as well as an image, if available and a selection of recipes from this site that relates to the cookery term: Pear Plums.

pear plum varieties

Pear plums are referred to in manuscripts from the 1520s right through to the 1830s. From the historical sources, there appear to have been two types, the white pear plum (an early ripening variety) and the black pear plum.

An image from Bodleian Library MS Ashmole 1461 from 1620 (follow his link for the manuscript) shows the blacke peare plum as a small damson-like plum with a per-like shape and black skin that ripens in early Spetember. An image from the same manuscript shows the early whight pere plum as a yellow, rather elongated, pear-shaped plum that ripened in early July. (I have sketched copies of the fruit images, based on the originals, to present here.)

Hannah Glasse (and may other Georgian writers) had many recipes for the use and cookery of pear plums (both black and white).





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