What is "apples and pears"

Usage examples of "apples and pears".

Orchards gave apples and pears for ciders, bees made honey for mead, even the bogs provided berries, wild herbs, and peat to supplement the wood and charcoal and sea-coal shipped into Dublin from other lands.

There were apples and pears and pomegranates, some sad-looking grapes, a huge blood orange.

They circled back and around seven times, passing monks at work in the orchards, harvesting the last of the apples and pears and repairing the labyrinth walls.

Pears (windfall) or plums of any kind may be used in the same way, or apples and pears mixed.

Cut the windfall apples and pears in quarters (do not peel or core), put into a preserving pan with the plums, and add enough water to cover the bottom of the pan.

Then apples and pears and grapes and plums spilled into the hands of the courtier.