Pear, Poire Recipe
By
Nick Mautone
Difficulty: Easy |
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Makes:
6 drinks
This is made with pear eau de vie, a side of pear, and a touch of bubbly.
What to buy: Choose a pear eau de vie that’s rich and a little sweet rather than one that’s sharp like a grappa. We like Belle de Brillet, from France.
Game plan: You can prepare the pears up to 8 hours in advance and store them in the refrigerator.
INGREDIENTS
- Freshly squeezed juice of 1 medium lemon
- 2 teaspoons granulated sugar
- 1 small, ripe pear
- 3/4 cup pear eau de vie, such as Belle de Brillet
- 1 (750-milliliter) bottle chilled sparkling wine
INSTRUCTIONS
- Combine lemon juice and sugar in a bowl and stir. Peel, core, and chop pear into small dice. Combine pear, pear eau de vie, and lemon juice mixture in a blender or food processor and purée until smooth.
- Divide mixture evenly among six glasses. Top with sparkling wine and serve.
If you're looking for a good pear liqueur, there is a dynamite one produced by the J vineyard in Healdsburg, CA. It would work very well in this recipe.
I am sans eau de vie, so I infused some vodka with cinnamon, clove and anise and will substitute accordingly. Also swapping agave syrup out for the sugar for the glycemically challenged in the brunch crowd.
Awesome! I just picked up a bottle of Mathilde poire liqueur from BevMo, which was bright and juicy over ice and perked up a glass of white wine. We also got the raspberry variety, which was strong and syrupy, though not in the good way. Now I have the perfect recipe to guinea pig on my friends. It sounds *lush*.
Jonathan Forester from Slashfood likes it too:...+READ
Awesome! I just picked up a bottle of Mathilde poire liqueur from BevMo, which was bright and juicy over ice and perked up a glass of white wine. We also got the raspberry variety, which was strong and syrupy, though not in the good way. Now I have the perfect recipe to guinea pig on my friends. It sounds *lush*.
Jonathan Forester from Slashfood likes it too: http://www.slashfood.com/2006/12/04/liqueur-notes-mathilde-poires-pear-liqueur/-COLLAPSE