Pickled Pears

Ingredients

• three quarts of good vinegar
• twelve onions
• two dozen large baking pears
• a dessert-spoonful of salt
• a dessert-spoonful of peppercorns
• a small tea-spoonful of cloves
• a small tea-spoonful of allspice
• six blades of mace
• two ounces of whole ginger
• three dessert-spoonfuls of turmeric
• two cloves of garlic

Method

1. 1

   Simmer vinegar with salt, onions, and pears until tender.

2. 2

   Cool, pare, and core pears.

3. 3

   Rub onions through a sieve.

4. 4

   Add spices to vinegar, boil, and pour over pears in jars.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 20 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cassell's dictionary of cookery (1892) by Cassell & Company, page 1126. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

three quarts of good vinegar into a tin saucepan with a dessert-spoonful of salt, twelve onions, and two dozen large baking pears which have been well rubbed with a soft cloth, but not pared. Sim- mer gently until the pears are tender without being broken, then take them out, and when they are cold pare and core them, and divide each one into six or eight pieces. When the onions also are soft take them out, and rub them through a fine hail- sieve. Put into the vinegar a dessert- spoonful of peppercorns, a small tea-spoon- ful of cloves, a small tea-spoonful of allspice, six blades of mace, two ounces of whole ginger, three dessert-spoonfuls of turmeric, two cloves of garlic ; if liked, a dessert-spoonful of mus- tard seed and a dessert-spoonful of coriander seed may also be added. Let these ingredients boU for ten minutes, then stir in the mashed onion, and boil ten minutes longer. Put the pears into jars, and pour the seasoned vinegar over them. Divide the spices equally amongst the jars, and place them at the top of the pears. Tie the jars down with bladder, and store in a cool dry place. Time, about one hour and a haK to stew the pears. Probable cost, 28. 6d. Sufficient for a gallon of pickle. Pears

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