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Canned Pears

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From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 7 ingredients
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Canned Pears

Why it works: Cinnamon and clove match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,189 recipes. Both carry ethyl cinnamate, which smells sweet, balsamic. The science ↓

Canned Pears

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Wipe the pears, cut them in halves, core, and peel.

  2. Pack the pears in sterile jars and steam for 10 to 15 minutes, longer if the pears are very hard.

  3. Add pieces of stick cinnamon, ginger, or cloves.

  4. Fill the jar with syrup and steam until the fruit is tender, then seal.

  5. For lemon flavor, cook thin pieces of lemon rind in syrup, strain out before adding syrup to fruit, or add 1 tablespoon of lemon juice to syrup for each quart jar.

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. Cinnamon + clovetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,189 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl cinnamate (sweet, balsamic).

  2. Cinnamon + gingertop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,380 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  3. Ginger + clovetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,038 recipes

    Shared aroma: estragole (anise, licorice).

  4. Pear + cinnamontop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together600 recipes

    Shared aroma: anethole (sweet, anise).

  5. Ginger + lemontop 5% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,154 recipes

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

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 (pear, cinnamon, ginger, clove, syrup):

  1. Quincefits better
  2. Vanillafits better
  3. Applefits better
  4. Lemonthe original

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

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