A few weeks ago, my mother-in-law came down to her basement and caught Rob and I rummaging through their extensive liquor collection. My in-laws get bottles as gifts and keep them for years and years without actually drinking them. She invited us to take whatever we wanted, and we carted home a bottle each. Rob choose the biggest bottle of Grey Goose Vanilla we’ve ever seen, and I picked a bottle of pear liquor I’d never heard of before but thought was really pretty.
This is it out of the freezer and with a bit poured out, which I drank straight up. I thought it would be fairly mild, but one sip made my hair go straight. It needs a mixer!
I’d love to do a spicy, Christmasy “signature drink” for parties with it, but I have no idea where to get recipes other than “mix with sparkling wine” which I might well do.
Anyone have any good ideas?
The first idea when you said spicy was a Dark and Stormy, which is dark rum and ginger beer (or ale). You could add pear to that, or do pear and ginger beer.
There’s also the idea of replacing it with any drink that has apple pucker, etc in it. I.E. The Washington Apple, which is Crown Royal, Pucker and cranberry juice. That could be tasty with pear.
Also,instead of wine, you could do a double trouble pear cider, adding the liquor to a bottled pear cider.
emily
8 Dec 09 at 6:13 pm
_Snowflake_
1 1/2 oz pear liqueur
3 oz milk
crushed ice
7-Up® soda
Blend Pear Liqueur, Milk and Ice. Add 7-Up to taste.
_Grand Pear_
1 1/4 oz pear liqueur
1/2 oz Grand Marnier orange liqueur
1 oz mandarin juice
1 oz pear juice
Shake and strain into an old-fashioned glass half-filled with broken ice.
najla.
10 Dec 09 at 11:34 pm