Rocha pear
Pyrus communis 'Rocha' · Pome fruit
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The Rocha is Portugal's national pear and its only protected-origin variety — a short, rounded, almost squat fruit with a smooth greenish-yellow skin that carries a distinctive collar of warm brown russet around the stalk and a light freckling of lenticels over the body. The flesh is white, fine-grained, sweet and crisply juicy, and the variety keeps so exceptionally well that it is stored and shipped through much of the year, making it the workhorse and the pride of the Oeste orchards north of Lisbon.
Picking a good onedrag
UnderripeOverripe
Just ripeEat itNeck yields, body still firm. Slices clean for salads, cheese, tarts.
NeckGives to gentle thumb press
FleshBody still firm to a thumb
SkinTaut with a faint sheen
SmellFaint sweetness at the neck
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What you get from one
90%
Edible part
178 g · core out
198 g
Weight each
each one
70%
Juice
700 ml a kilo, pressed
Keeping ittap a temperature
A domestic fridge holds it about 7× longer than the counter.
90-95%
Humidity
Vented, never airtight
Airflow