Pears Cooked in Wine

• 6 Pears; with stems
• 1 3
• 4 cups Water
• 2 cups Sugar
• 2 tbsp. Lemon juice
• 6 tbsp. Port wine
• 2 Cloves
• 1 2

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.
3. Add the sugar, the ginger, the lemon juice,the clove and the cinnamon.
4. Stir until sugar is dissolved.
5. Let cook 5 minutes.
6. Strain and bring to boil again.
7. Peel pears leaving 1-inch of the stems.
8. Cut off a slice in the bottom so pears can stand upright.
9. Place pears in the boiling liquid and cook 30 minutes until tender.
10. Add 5 tbsp.
11. wine and cook another 10 minutes.
12. Tranfer pears to a serving dish or individual dishes.
13. Let liquid in pan reduce to 2 cups.
14. Add 1 more tbsp.
15. wine.
16. Pour sauce over pears.
17. Serve with ice cream.
18. May be served warm or cold.

stems, water, sugar, lemon juice, wine

Taken from www.foodgeeks.com/recipes/16565 (may not work)