Mr. Yu Youren once gave a poem: "Soft pears in the ice and snow, the first strange in the melon and fruit city, full of red faces, people do not take, and the fragrance is waiting to be turned into mud." ”
Lanzhou soft pear,
In Lanzhou, which enjoys the reputation of "Guaguo City",
With its special flavor, it becomes the best among pears!
Soft pear
Shichuan soft pear is known as the oldest ice cream in China. Soft pear, also known as the heart, perfume, it is a favorite of the people in the harsh winter season of the pear. Its fragrance, mellow sweetness, cold, refreshing, refreshing, a mouth makes people feel refreshed, painful.
The fruit of Gaolan soft pear is nearly round, with an average fruit weight of about 125 grams, and ripens in late autumn and early winter. When first harvested, its color is yellow with green, green in the middle, and the flesh is hard and slightly sour. If the fresh pear is warmed with wheat grass for more than 10 days, it will be pale yellow, the skin is thin and soft, and the sweet and sour is suitable. Then the undamaged pears are picked out and stored in the cellar or on the indoor wooden shelf board, after more than 40 days, the pulp cells ferment and soften, the peel turns brown and returns to sand, and the fruit taste becomes sweeter, which is called "chemical heart" or "sugar heart".
If eaten until February or March of the following year, it tastes better. As the climate becomes colder, the fruit freezes like a stone, can not be dissolved in a hurry when eating, if you use firepower, its taste becomes sour, loses its original flavor, needs to be placed in a warm place to naturally dissolve or soak it in cold water, about ten minutes later, the ice shell condenses its surface, after fishing out, remove the ice shell, the pear is soft as mud, the slurry is full, the taste is sweet like honey, and the wine is rich.
When eating, tear the epidermis, suck with the mouth, a package of honey-like juice suddenly dissolves in the mouth, drinking sweet and refreshing, cool silk, fragrant, refreshing, lingering taste for a long time. The so-called "thin skin a bag of water, a lump of meat mud", therefore, Gaolan soft pear is also called "perfume pear".
Rich in nutritional value
Soft pear not only has a unique flavor, but also rich in nutritional value, containing fruit acid, malic acid, citric acid, sucrose, glucose and other components, soluble solids are generally about 13%, and the nutritional value is extremely high.
It is noted in the "Compendium of Materia Medica" that soft pears have the effects of moisturizing the lungs, cooling the heart, eliminating phlegm, reducing fire, and detoxifying sores and alcohol.
It has a long history of cultivation
Gaolan soft pear has a long history of cultivation. In the eighteenth year of Qing Guangxu (1892), Zhang Guochang edited and revised the "Chronicle of Reconstructing Gaolan County", which states, "Perfume pears are commonly known as soft children, green and yellow in autumn, slightly sour in taste, hidden until late winter and early spring, soft and black, meat into pulp, sweet as honey."
Shichuan Town is only more than 1400 meters above sea level, the climate is pleasant, the land is fertile, and it has been "draining and planting trees" since the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty. During the Kangxi Dynasty, large-scale tree planting began, and now there are nearly 5,000 acres of pear orchards, of which there are more than 7,000 soft pear trees.
Gaolan soft pear tree belongs to the Rose family, Autumn Pear family, its tree is strong, fast growth, early fruit, long life, cold and drought tolerance, barren tolerance, strong adaptability, a variety of fruits, good fruit quality. The unique characteristic of Gaolan soft pear is that the longer the tree, the finer the flesh, the thinner the skin, and the better the quality.