Recipe - Pears Cooked In Wine

6 Pears; with stems
1 3" piece ginger; peeled
4 cup Water
2 cup Sugar
2 tablespoon Lemon juice
6 tablespoon Port wine
2 Cloves
1 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 MCRecipe Digest V1 #778 by Leon & Miriam Posvolsky
miriamp@pobox.com on Sep 10, 1997