Poached Pears
Recipe from Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book, 10th Edition (1989), page 124. Vision transcription from the scanned page; needs review.
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Ingredients
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup sweet white wine or orange juice
- 2 1/2 to 3 inches stick cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 4 medium pears, peeled, halved, and cored; or medium peaches, peeled, halved, and pitted
Instructions
- In a large skillet bring sugar, wine, cinnamon, vanilla, and 3/4 cup water to boiling. Add pears or peaches. Reduce heat. Simmer, covered, for 10 to 15 minutes or till tender. Remove cinnamon.
- Serve warm or chilled.
- Microwave directions: In a 2-quart casserole micro-cook sugar, wine, cinnamon, vanilla and 3/4 cup water, uncovered, on 100% power (high) 4 to 6 minutes or till boiling. Add fruit and cook, covered, on high for 4 to 6 minutes or till fruit is tender; stir once. Continue as above.
- Pears Hélène: Prepare as above using pears. Serve pears drained and chilled with vanilla ice cream and Hot Fudge Sauce (see recipe page 139).
- Peach Melba: Prepare as above using peaches. Serve peaches drained and chilled with vanilla ice cream and Fruit Sauce made with raspberries (see recipe, page 139).
Source and image provenance
Historical recipe source: Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book, 10th Edition (1989), Meredith Corporation. View the cited page at the Internet Archive.
Image credit: Image attribution: "Poached Pears in bowl.jpg" by Infrogmation of New Orleans; license: CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0); source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Poached_Pears_in_bowl.jpg. Cropped/resized.
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