Baked Pears

Ingredients

• twelve pears
• a teaspoon or two of water
• a half pound to each pint water
• one lemon rind cut in strips
• the juice of half a lemon
• six cloves
• ten pounded allspice

Method

1. 1

   Bake washed, unpeeled pears with a little water and sugar.

2. 2

   For a more elaborate dish, pare and halve pears, add lemon rind, juice, cloves, allspice, and water to cover.

3. 3

   Bake in a cool oven for 5-6 hours.

4. 4

   Serve cold with syrup.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 4 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The new practical housekeeping (1890) by Estelle Woods Wilcox, page 250. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Baked Pears. — Bake washed, unpeeled pears in pan with only a teaspoon or two of water ; leave stems on, sprinkle with sugar, and serve with their own ^yrup. Or, for a more elaborate disn, pare and cut twelve pears into halves, and, should they be very large, into quarters ; leave the stems on, and carefully remove the cores. Place them in baking-dish or bean-pot with cover ; add one lemon rind cut in strips, and the juice of half a lemon, six cloves, ten pounded allspice, and sufficient water to just cover the whole, with sugar in proportion of a half pound to each pint water

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