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France

Known as a French recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 2 ingredients

  1. Pears
  2. a stick of vanilla

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.
  • Sharp knives. Cut on a board that doesn't slip (a damp cloth under it helps), and curl the fingers of the hand that holds the food.

Method

  1. Choose 7 middle-sized stewing pears ;
  2. peel them whole, very smooth, and put them in a 2-quart stewpan ;
  3. cover them with syrup, at 16 , a little prepared cochineal, and a quarter of a stick of vanilla ;
  4. simmer for an hour and a half ;
  5. let the pears cool in the syrup ;
  6. drain them, and reduce the syrup quickly to Dress six of the pears round a compote dish, and put the seventh in the centre ;
  7. when the syrup is cold, pour it over the pears ;
  8. and serve.
  9. The syrup should only be added to compotes just before serving.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Chef's knife
  • Vegetable peeler
  • Colander
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Credit

From The royal cookery book (1973), printed page 202, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/royalcookeryboo00goufgoog

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.