Recipe - Pears With Ginger

1 cup Sugar
3 cup Water
1 cup White wine
1 Lemon , Juice of
2 Twoinch pieces of lemon
zest
1 4inch cinnamon stick
1 2inch piece gingerroot,
cut or sliced up
2 Star anise
6 Firm pears, Anjou or Comice

Place sugar, water, wine, lemon juice, zest, cinnamon, ginger, star anise
in a saucepan. The pan should hold all the pears in a single layer. Bring
liquid to boil, stirring occassionally to dissolve sugar. Cook 5 minutes.
Peel and core pears. Halve, if desired. Place pears in boiling liquid. Add
more water if needed to cover them. Return liquid to a boil. Cover and
reduce to LOW. Simmer pears gently til just tender, 10 to 20 min. With
slotted spoon, remove pears from liquid and set aside. Put on HIGH; boil to
reduce liquid to about 2 cups. Strain sauce, discarding solids. To serve
hot, place pears in dishes, and spoon sauce on top. To serve cold, put
pears and sauce in covered bowl and refrigerate; keeps 2 3 days. Susanna
Foo Chinese Cuisine Posted to TNT Prodigy's Recipe Exchange Newsletter by
Daniel and Mary Commini 4christ@bellsouth.net on Mar 18, 1997