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Canned Pears

A preserved pear dish made by cooking pears in a sugar syrup and packing them in hot bottles.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Canned Pears

Why it works: Sugar and pear 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 Pears

Ingredients

Directions

Make the syrup

  1. Combine water and sugar in a pot and bring to a boil.

Cook and pack

  1. Add peeled pears and cook until tender.

  2. Prepare hot bottles, pack the pears inside, and pour the syrup over them.

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. Sugar + peartop 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 when cooked and forms the main body of the preserve.
Sugar
Sweetens the syrup and helps preserve the pears' texture and flavour.

“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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