Pears cooked in wine

1 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
6 Pears; with stems
1 3\" piece ginger; peeled
4 cups Water
2 cups Sugar
2 tablespoons Lemon juice
6 tablespoons Port wine
2 Cloves
1 2\" stick cinnamon

Directions

1. Slice ginger and then julienne it into thin strips 2.Pour the water into a saucepan large enough to hold the 6 pears side by side. Add the sugar, the ginger, the lemon juice,the clove and the cinnamon. Stir until sugar is dissolved. Let cook 5 minutes. Strain and bring to boil again.

3. Peel pears leaving 1" of the stems. Cut off a slice in the bottom so pears can stand upright

4. Place pears in the boiling liquid and cook 30 minutes until tender. Add 5 tbs wine and cook another 10 minutes.

5. Tranfer pears to a serving dish or individual dishes.

6. Let liquid in pan reduce to 2 cups.

7. Add 1 more tbs wine.

8. Pour sauce over pears.

9. Serve with ice cream.

May be served warm or cold.

Recipe by: Criativa Magazine altered by Miriam P. Posvolsky Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #778 by Leon & Miriam Posvolsky <miriamp@...> on Sep 10, 1997

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