Cooking pear trees

Cooking pears fall into two categories. The first are eating varieties which are used for cooking. These are usually used for cooking before the soften. The second are old fashioned cooking pears which remain hard however long they are kept and never soften sufficiently to be eaten fresh. Click here for a guide to choosing pear trees.

1Beurre Bosc
Available £21.50 to £34.50
An attactive looking pear with good sweet flavour and reliable cropping.
2Beurre Clairgeau
Available £20.50 to £55.00
A good dual purpose variety but needing a warm location.
3Beurre Rance
Available £58.50
A pleasant late ripening dual purpose pear.
4Beurre Superfin
Available £20.50 to £31.50
A high quality pear but one needing a warm sheltered location.
5Black Worcester
Available £33.50
An ancient and historic pear with very dark skin. One of the best traditional cooking pears.
6Catillac
Available £21.50 to £34.50
One of the oldest and best of the cooking pears.
7Clapps Favourite
Available £20.50
An excellent early dual purpose pear.
8Martin Sec
Available £20.50 to £58.50
Best known as a culinary pear for compotes, pastries and drying.
9Uvedale's St Germain
Available £20.50
A very old English cooking pear producing very large fruit.
10Vicar of Winkfield
Available £34.50
A very old cooking pear which produces an attractive vigorous tree.
11Williams Bon Chretien
Available £29.50
Probably the best known and most widely grown pear throughout the world.
12Windsor
Available £20.50
An early season dual purpose pear.