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France

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

Ingredients 5 ingredients

  1. 1 quart of water
  2. Sugar
  3. Apple
  4. Cut
  5. 10 pears

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. Take 10 pears;
  2. cut them in two;
  3. peel, and put them in a 2-quart stewpan, with 1 quart of water, and 4 1b.
  4. of sugar;
  5. simmer for about an hour;
  6. when done, drain the pears ;
  7. Line a mould with puff paste;
  8. upon it put a layer of apple, prepared as for Apple Charlotte, and place the pears on the top ;
  9. Strain, and reduce the syrup of the pears to 32°;
  10. pour it over the tart when cold;
  11. and serve.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

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

From The royal cookery book (le livre de cuisine) (1868), printed page 235, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/b21505093

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.