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Does anybody have any experience with Himalayan pears?
For some reason the previous owner of my property planted one of these instead of literally any other normal fruit tree.
The fruits are nasty shitty little things, horribly astringent and pretty much inedible and very vile.
The only way to eat them is a process apparently called "bletting" where you basically let them half rot, after which they taste like mushy grainy pears, and are actually pretty decent.
I don't much like them, but the tree produces like 15-20 kg of fruit a year, and it feels wasteful not to use it and preserve it.
Jam? Sauce? Dehydrated? What should I do with them?
You can't peel them (the skin tastes fine though), and they're just under the size of a golf ball, so processing them in any way is a pain in the arse.
