Yield: 1 Servings
Measure | Ingredient |
---|---|
6 \N | Pears; with stems |
1 \N | 3\" piece ginger; peeled |
4 cups | Water |
2 cups | Sugar |
2 tablespoons | Lemon juice |
6 tablespoons | Port wine |
2 \N | Cloves |
1 \N | 2\" stick cinnamon |
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