Recipe courtesy of Maureen Poole
Wardens in Cunfyt (Pears in Red Wine)
- Level: Easy
- Total: 50 min
- Prep: 15 min
- Cook: 35 min
- Yield: 6 servings
Ingredients
3/4 pint dry red wine
4 ounces sugar
4 cloves
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon or piece cinnamon bark
6 large, firm pears
Gilded bay leaves, to decorate
Directions
- Place wine, sugar and spices in saucepan, and heat until sugar dissolves. Peel the pears, leaving the stalks on, but remove the core from the bottom using a thin, sharp knife or a potato peeler. Put the pears into the syrup and simmer gently for about 20 minutes or until tender. Remove the pears to a dish, and reduce the syrup by half by boiling rapidly. Spoon syrup over pears. Cool, and decorate with gilded bay leaves stuck in by the stalk.
