To stew PEARS

The Experienced English Housekeeper · Elizabeth Raffald · 1784

Source: The Experienced English Housekeeper
Status: success · extracted 12 days ago
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Ingredients (5)

largest stewing pears
a clove ↝ Garlic, raw [Vegetables and Vegetable Products]
hard water ↝ Water, tap [Tap water]
as much loaf sugar as will make it a thick syrup ↝ Sugar, NFS [Sugars and honey]
some lemon peel ↝ Lemon peel, raw [Fruits and Fruit Juices]

Instructions (6)

Pare the largest stewing pears, and stick a clove in the blossom end.
Put them in a well tinned saucepan, with a new pewter spoon in the middle.
Fill it with hard water, and set it over a slow fire for three or four hours, till your pears are soft, and the water reduced to a small quantity.
Put in as much loaf sugar as will make it a thick syrup, and give the pears a boil in it.
Cut some lemon peel like straws and hang them about your pears.
Serve them up with the syrup in a deep dish.

Original Text

To stew PEARS.

PARE the largest stewing pears, and stick a clove in the blossom end, then put them in a well tinned saucepan, with a new pewter spoon in the middle, fill it with hard water, and set it over a slow fire for three or four hours, till your pears are soft, and the water reduced to a small quantity, then put in as much loaf sugar as will make it a thick syrup, and give the pears a boil in it, then cut some lemon peel like straws and hang them about your pears, and serve them up with the syrup in a deep dish.

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