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Canned Pears

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Canned Pears

Why it works: Lemon and ginger match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 5,154 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Canned Pears

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Wipe and peel the Bartlett pears, then cut them in half and remove the cores.

  2. If the pears are hard, parboil them in boiling water until slightly tender.

  3. Cook the pears in the syrup until they are tender, a few at a time.

  4. If the pears are ripe, skip the parboiling and cook them directly in the hot syrup.

  5. Fill jars according to canning directions.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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Explore the science

The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Lemon + gingertop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,154 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Ginger + syruptop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together950 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Lemon + syruptop 20% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,235 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Bartlett pear + gingertop 27% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together22 recipes

    Shared aroma: isoamyl acetate (banana, pear).

  5. Bartlett pear + lemontop 30% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together33 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Swap the lemon

The recipe marks lemon as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (bartlett pear, ginger, syrup):

  1. Pearfits better
  2. Plumfits better
  3. Vanillafits better
  4. Lemonthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against bartlett pear, ginger, syrup. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

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