Stewed Pears — I

Ingredients

• a number of good large cooking pears
• one cup of sugar
• one cup of water
• two cloves

Method

1. 1

   Pare, core, and cut pears in half, placing them in cold water with lemon juice.

2. 2

   Prick them, make a syrup with sugar and water, boil and skim.

3. 3

   When cool, pour syrup into a jar, add pears and cloves, cover tightly, and set in a slow oven for five to six hours.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The pudding and pastry book (1900) by Elizabeth Douglas, page 7. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

a number of good large cooking pears, and put them into cold water in which there is the juice of a lemon. Prick them in several places. Make a syrup in the pro- portion of one cup of sugar to one cup of water. Boil up and skim. When cool pour it into an earthenware jar. Put the pears into the syrup. Add two cloves. Cover the jar tightly. Set in a very slow oven and leave for five or six hours. This is the best way of cooking pears : but it is essential that the oven should be slow all the time. Stewed Pears — I

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.