Beaujolais Pears With Cassis and Prunes (Canned)
- 4 (750 ml) bottles beaujolais wine
- 4 cups sugar
- 12 lbs firm-ripe pears, such as Bartlett
- whole cloves
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 3 allspice berries
- 1 -2 sprig fresh rosemary
- 36 prunes
- 13 cup creme de cassis
- In large nonreactive pan combine wine and sugar, bring the mixture slowly to a boil, stirring occasionally until sugar is dissolved; remove from heat.
- Peel the pears, removing blossom ends, but leaving stems intact.
- Drop them immediately into wine syrup to prevent discoloration.
- Tie cinnamon stick, broken in half, cloves, and allspice in a square of cheesecloth.
- Add spice bag, rosemary, and prunes to syrup; bring it slowly back to a boil, and simmer 20 minutes.
- (Pears don't have to be completely cooked at this point.
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- Discard spice bag and rosemary.
- With slotted spoon transfer pears and prunes to large (2 or 3-quart) warm jars, standing pears upright on the bottom layer and arranging the next upside down.
- Continue alternating until jars are filled.
- Boil syrup until reduced by about 3/4, (the equivalent of 1 bottle of wine.
- Stir cassis into syrup.
- Strain liquid through a double thickness of dampened cheesecloth; ladle it into jars, and seal them.
- Process jars in a boiling water bath: 1 hour for 2-quart jars, 1 hour and 10 minutes for 3-quart jars.
- Let them cool completely before checking seals and storing.
beaujolais wine, sugar, bartlett, cloves, cinnamon, berries, rosemary, prunes, creme de cassis
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/beaujolais-pears-with-cassis-and-prunes-canned-375137 (may not work)