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Pitanga

Une baie rouge côtelée au léger goût de térébenthine, et c’est bien pour ça qu’on l’aime. La cerise de Cayenne brésilienne.

on its own
4.0sour
2.0sweet
0.0savoury
2.0bitter
0.0umami
order · canon first

3 of these 13 are wild — theory says yes, nobody has cooked them. why →

13 pairings for Pitanga.

Sucre

classic

The resin note needs sweetness or it reads as a fault rather than a flavour.

Sharpening a resinous acid pushes it toward citrus and away from pine cleaner.

Crème

common

Dairy fat traps the terpenes; the ice cream tastes of the fruit and not the tree.

Rhum

common

Molasses sugar under resin; the two meet somewhere near a very old cocktail bitters.

Lactone fat rounds the pine edge and keeps the acid from cutting straight through.

Two resins from opposite hemispheres; together they stop sounding like an accident.

Gin

uncommon

The botanicals were already halfway there. The fruit is a native replacement for the peel.

Romarin

uncommon

Pinene on pinene; the herb makes the fruit read as savoury within one bite.

Canard

rare

Resinous tart fruit against rendered fat; it does the job orange does, but green.

Lactic chalk under resin and acid; the jam belongs on a board, not a pudding.

Cocoa handles resin better than anything; the bar tastes like it was aged in wood.

Oily fish and pine acid; a Brazilian answer to gooseberry with mackerel.

Resinous red cherry over bland wet curd. The fruit is too strange to sit beside anything louder.