Apple-shaped
- Characteristics
- Rounded fruit
Sorba
Sorba is the fruit of the service tree, traditionally allowed to soften after harvest before eating.
- Identity
- Sorbus domestica
- Forms
- Apple-shaped and pear-shaped
- Character
- Brown, slightly acid flesh after softening
Types and preparations
Pear-shaped
- Characteristics
- More elongated fruit
The value of waiting
Fondazione Archeologia Arborea describes yellow-red skin becoming dark brown as the fruit softens. The brown, slightly acid pulp is the eating stage to understand, rather than expecting the crisp bite of an apple.
Try it in the kitchen
Taste a fully softened sorba on its own before serving its pulp beside plain yogurt. Ammezzimento is the traditional post-harvest softening process; a hard, astringent fruit is not yet at the same eating stage.
