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Canned Baked Pears

Canned baked pears are pears baked and then canned in a sugar syrup.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Why it works: Pear and sugar are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 2,079 recipes. Both carry 1-penten-3-one, which smells fish, pungent. The science ↓

Canned Baked Pears

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Wash the pears and wipe them dry with a clean cloth.

  2. Place the pears in a baking pan and bake until done.

Make the syrup and can

  1. Prepare a syrup by combining 1 quart of water and 1 pint of white sugar.

  2. Add the baked pears to the syrup, ensuring they fit in the can.

  3. Bring to a boil once, then can quickly.

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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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. Pear + sugartop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together2,079 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

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

What each ingredient does

Pears
Provide the fruit that softens and turns tender during baking and canning.
White sugar
Sweetens the syrup and adds body to the liquid the pears sit in.

The step that matters

Bring to a boil once, then can quickly. Boiling the syrup only once and sealing promptly limits extra heat exposure, which helps keep the pears firm and their color and flavor intact.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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