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To Preserve Jarganel Pears Most Beautifully

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 ↓

To Preserve Jarganel Pears Most Beautifully

Oven, in the book's wordsA cool oven

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Pare the pears very thin.

  2. Simmer them in a thin syrup made of sugar and water.

  3. Let them lie in the syrup for a day or two.

  4. Make the syrup richer and simmer again.

  5. Repeat this process until the pears are clear.

  6. Drain the pears and dry them in the sun or a cool oven for a short time.

  7. Store them in syrup and dry as needed.

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).

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