Problem with colour

16 years ago

I want to tackle an Ethereal Pear Charlotte. There are a lot of steps and work to it so I don't want to blow it. The poached pears calls for pear liqueur and so I bought some and for some reason thought nothing of the neon bright orange colour of the liqueur at the store. Unpacking it to put away, it finally occurs to me it may ruin my end result. Do you think this will really affect the colour? It only calls for 2 tbsp of it with 1 1/2 cups water, 2 tsp lemon juice, 1/4 cup sugar. It's the only pear liqueur I could find. If it will ruin the colour of my end product I don't want to use it. I would love suggestions for substitutions. Thanks.

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caliloo
16 years ago
Neon orange? I've never seen a pear liqueur that was neon orange, but anyway...... Using that small an amount I cant imagine the color would be affected. As long as it smells and tasted good I woudl go for it!

Alexa

PS - I have a bottle of Brillet for purposes like what you mentioned and it is wonderful.

Here is a link that might be useful: Brillet
cookie8
Original Author
16 years ago
Here is a link to a picture of it. It's not as rich looking as the picture but much more shockingly orange. It was the only pear liqueur I could find - I went to two spirits stores.

Here is a link that might be useful: {{gwi:1496973}}
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Ideefixe
16 years ago
Try looking for Poire William.

Here is a link that might be useful: Poire William
beanthere_dunthat
16 years ago
That's sort of a scary color. I've seen that at the grocery and wondered why it was so bright. How does it taste?

2 T in 1 1/2 cups water ought to tame it down, though.
cookie8
Original Author
16 years ago
I didn't bother to open it. I will return it. I notice upon swishing it, it stains the bottle it is in also. There is ingredient referred to as "foodstuff colour" = another reason to return. How I didn't notice the colour at the store is beyond me. I will improvise my recipe by using using baby pear juice instead of water and vanilla schnapps for the alcohol portion and cross my fingers (also written in by me as prep step). The recipe did recommend the Poire William but I can't find any.
caliloo
16 years ago
Holy CARP!

Definitely return it. Zwak tastes faintly of turpentine (ask me how I know - my Hungarian mother loves this stuff!) and is definitely NOT something I would recommend for any sort of pastry.

Alexa
cookie8
Original Author
16 years ago
Well, it turned out to be very pretty but I was disappointed with taste. The texture was great but after researching further on pear liqueur I think that is where I messed up. I ended up buying pear brandy which is very much like Kirsch so not syrupy and sweet but strong a alcohol and the pear taste lingers on your tongue afterwards. I do have left over biscuit so would like to try again. Do you think I can turn this brandy into a liqueur? Kind of like what some have done to make Lemoncello? Anyways, here is the pic. I wish I had a side pic but it didn't turn out. Oh, my gracious guests said it was great - that may be because of all the work that went into it? Maybe my taste buds aren't refined enough to appreciate the flavour? Oh well, I sort of had fun making it.

Here is a link that might be useful: http://s641.photobucket.com/albums/uu136/shebagirl/?action=view&current=cake2003.jpg&newest=1
dedtired
16 years ago
It certainly is beautiful to look at. I wonder if the flavor would have "grown" if it sat for a day?
annie1992
16 years ago
I agree, cookie, it's beautiful. Too bad the flavor left something to be desired.

At least you had fun, and now you have a "project", you can make it taste as good as it looks!

Annie
cookie8
Original Author
16 years ago
Thanks.It did sit overnight. I made some modifications (hence the so-so flavour?) when I poached my pears because I couldn't find the pear liqueur and ended up using peach schnapps and vanilla schnapps. Don't ask. The flavour was questionable so I searched further and found the pear brandy and used that in the remainder of the recipe. Too bad the poaching fluid was already contaminated with so many other flavours. I googled the cake before I made it and read someone's blog about renaming the cake "Eternal Pear" because of the hours you spend on it!!