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