Fascinating Cottage Style Decor Ideas I had a little pear tree . Nothing would it bear. . But a silver nutmeg… Hang on! It didn’t even bear that last year. . I totally mastered pickled pears, I was the hostess with the… well, the pickled pears… but I was content with that. A slice of creamy stilton, a dash of pickled pears… the guests forgot that I hadn’t actually cooked anything other than the dessert and that actually, although I had been absolutely brilliant at pouring drinks, it was my poor beleaguered husband (who is pretty anti social anyway so