Transcript: Pear Necessity

Cocktails on the Fly
Episode: “Pear Necessity”

Alberta Straub: Hello Flighty here, I am going to teach you how to make one of my favorite drinks, the pear necessity. Does anyone remember a little bear called baloo, pear necessity? Remember that when you’re drinking it and remember it when you’re making it.
First start off with some fresh pear. This is a nice Bartlet pear it has got a really nice scent, it smells sweet it smells pear like, delicious. So don’t cut it in advance because it turns brown very quickly. So I just cut up a couple of pieces like so and then add my liquor. So it’s going to be an ounce and a half of fine gin. I am using miller right here because I love it, it’s so good. It’s from England and it’s quite tasty.
And then another treat from England Pimms #1 it’s a gin based herbal liquor it’s quite fantastic. And I am going to use half an ounce of that. It’s so good, and the same of Luxardo maraschino liquor. Now this stiff has nothing to do with the cherries. It is just fantastic it binds together acids and kinds of mellows them out. I don’t know why don’t ask me why, I just know that it does and that it taste great.
And then fresh citrus, some fresh lemon, and depending on how juicy your lemon is I am going to use about, I think I am going to use a whole lemon. Because I am going to need about an ounce so squeeze it in or you can, if you go to the grocery store a fine grocery store will have a pure lemon or lime juice that you can by as is so you don’t have to squeeze like this. But I tell you its fun, its fu to squish.
And then you match that with your simple syrup. There we go. And then I am going to out in some of our flighty special ginger syrup. It’s got a little cardamom. It’s got a little bit of chili powder in it, and it’s got its kind of hot, adds some pizzazz to the cocktail. And then mint, it’s so good.
So first you’re going to muddle a little bit. If you have got a muddler, hopefully you do if not just use the end of a wooden spoon or something and try to smash up the pear a little bit. I’m like, oh just smash the pear a little bit like it is sop easy and then I’m like, ahhh! It should have been a little easier but there we go, it’s crushed. So you just start it and then the ice is going to do the rest of the job when you shake it.
Were going to serve this drink up in a cocktail glass, and so I am muddling and you know flighty loves to muddle. Muddle, muddle, muddle. Ok so that looks like it’s going to be pretty muddled, pretty muddled. And it smells delicious let me tell you. Ok so I am going to add some ice to the glass. Whew that was kind of loud, ice. But ice is essential so it can be as loud as it wants to be right? And then so the goal with the ice here is to break up the mint and to kind of do the job of a muddler. And so were going to pack the mixing glass with ice and also the mixing tin with ice.
Ok, so that looks good. Now you kind of got to do a fast shake job here you got to like, oh, oh, oh 1,2,and 3 oh there we go, ok. Hit to create a seal and then you got to shake like crazy with it. Shake make a face. This has got to be shaken a lot more vigorously than your typical cocktail like a lemon drop or something because you have to break the stuff up. Raaaaaa! So I am shaking, shaking pear necessity. You guys want to sing with me? No, I didn’t think so.
Ok, you know what my favorite song is the big orangutan king, done by Louie Prima. That’s a nice song but I don’t remember how it goes. Ok that looks pretty shaken. Tap gently get rid of the ice that you should have cooling your cocktail glass. And then pour the deliciousness in. Oh look at that it looks so good.
You should see mint leaves to be pretty broken up and you should see the pear is as well. So oh, get all the goodness out, get all the goodness out. Ok and then look for a nice mint sprig to use as a garnish. That one doesn’t look so good. Ooh your dead I am throwing you away. I am tossing you out bye.
Ok, there we go, nice mint sprig. There we go, and then maybe like a little piece of fresh ginger. And there you have the fabulous pear necessity, yummy, yummy, delicious. I am going to drink it down. Mmm that is really good. Any of you guys want to try some, Pear necessity, delicious yummy cocktail. Thank you.
Pear Necessity:
1. Slice a fresh pear, add to mixing glass.
2. Add 1.5 oz of fine gin
3. Add .5 oz of Pimms #1 and the same of Maraschino liquor
4. Add 1oz fresh lemon juice
5. Match with simple syrup
6. Add a dash of ginger cardamom syrup
7. Add some fresh mint and muddle!
8. Add ice and shake with vigor
9. Pour and serve in a chilled cocktail glass
10. Garnish with mint and enjoy