Recipe - Pears Catherine

4 One half cup Sugar
1 teaspoon Vanila extract; or more
8 Pears
4 cup Raspberries or blackberries
2 tablespoon Kirsh liqueur
3 tablespoon Finely ground almonds

From: Gad S. Sheaffer gss@iil.intel.com

Melt 4 cups sugar in 4One half cups sugar (!! probably should be "water"
glen). Boil, strain, add vanila extract and pass through a muslin cloth.
Pour the syrup into a clean pot, add the pears and steam until soft (but
not too soft). Puree the berries in a bowl. If canned, discard part of the
juice. Add the rest of the sugar and mix with the berries. Add also the
liquer. To serve: Take the pears out of the syrup, pour some of the berry
puree over each pear and straw on top with the almonds. Enjoy

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