Cocktails with Pear juice
Pear juice is the unfermented juice pressed from ripe pears, with no added sugar.
How it's used
Soft and sweet with little acidity of its own, so a drink built on it usually needs lemon or lime. It takes spice well: ginger, cinnamon, cardamom. Fresh-pressed and bottled taste very different, since bottled juice is heat-treated and tastes of cooked pear.
Substitutes for Pear juice
Another pear juice
Any 100% pear juice swaps in at the same measure.
Pear nectar
It is sweeter, so use about two-thirds of the measure and make up the rest with water.
Works in the same amount but tastes of apple.
Perry
Fermented pear juice with alcohol, often fizzy. In the same amount it gives a drier, slightly stronger drink.
Storage
Fresh juice starts to brown within the hour, so press to order or add a squeeze of lemon to slow it. Refrigerated, use it within two days.
