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Blushing Cranberry Pears

"These cranberry and cinnamon-flavored, sweet, pink pears are very delicious!"

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Cranberry and pear share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 25 recipes mention both. Both carry anethole, which smells sweet, anise. The science ↓

The recipe

8 pears
Prep15 min
Cook20 min

Ingredients

Directions

Method written by CompKitchen from the ingredient list. Not the original author's method, not kitchen-tested.

  1. Peel the pears, leaving the stems intact, and set them aside. Cut a thin slice off the bottom of each pear so it stands upright.

  2. Combine the cranberry juice cocktail, white sugar and cinnamon stick in a saucepan large enough to hold all the pears. Bring to a simmer over medium heat, stirring until the sugar dissolves.

  3. Lower the pears into the simmering liquid, standing them upright if possible. Reduce the heat to low so the liquid barely bubbles.

  4. Cover and poach the pears for 15 to 20 minutes, turning them occasionally, until a knife slides into the center with little resistance.

  5. Remove the pears with a slotted spoon and place them on a plate. Keep the liquid simmering over medium heat for about 5 minutes until it thickens slightly into a syrup.

  6. Discard the cinnamon stick or leave it in for serving. Spoon the warm syrup over the pears and serve warm or chilled.

By allrecipes. 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 aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Cranberry + peartop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together25 recipes

    Shared aroma: anethole (sweet, anise).

  2. Cranberry + cinnamontop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together116 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-methoxybenzaldehyde (sweet, anise).

  3. Cinnamon + peartop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together598 recipes

    Shared aroma: anethole (sweet, anise).

  4. Sugar + cinnamontop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together30,777 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

  5. Sugar + peartop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together2,062 recipes

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

Sugar and cinnamon share little aroma chemistry, yet 30,777 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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