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Red Pear Cocktails Recipe

At a recent visit to Cole's Chop House in Napa, we had the most delicious cocktail called a 'Red Pear'. Our thanks to Cole's for giving us the recipe:-

By chow · From Open Recipes · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Vodka and syrup match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 135 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Red Pear Cocktails Recipe

1 cocktail

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

184Calories
2 gProtein
1 gFat
47 gCarbs

Counts 3 of 6 ingredients. The other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 3 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pear1 medium (178g)101
Pomegranate1/2 cup seeds (87g)72
Limejuice of 1 lime (44ml)11
Vodkanot in our table0
Syrupnot in our table0
Cocktailnot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By chow. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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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. Vodka + syruptop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together135 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Pomegranate + limetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together90 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  3. Pear + pomegranatetop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together25 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl pentanoate (yeast, fruit).

  4. Vodka + limetop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together225 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Pear + limetop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together52 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

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

Swap the pear

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (vodka, pomegranate, lime, syrup):

  1. Lemonfits better
  2. Avocadofits better
  3. Orangefits better
  4. Pearthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against vodka, pomegranate, lime, syrup. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.