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Pear And Ginger Cocktail

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United States

Known as an American recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 7 ingredients

  1. eight tablespoonfuls of syrup
  2. Sugar
  3. Pears
  4. Sherry wine
  5. Cut
  6. Powdered sugar
  7. Ginger root

Possible health benefits

General information, not medical advice.

  1. Syrup Source of iron

    Source of iron · 3.6 mg per 100 g, 26% of the reference intake per 100 g

    • Iron contributes to normal cognitive function.
    • Iron contributes to normal energy-yielding metabolism.
    • Iron contributes to normal formation of red blood cells and haemoglobin.
    4 more authorised claims
    • Iron contributes to normal oxygen transport in the body.
    • Iron contributes to the normal function of the immune system.
    • Iron contributes to the reduction of tiredness and fatigue.
    • Iron has a role in the process of cell division.

    Iron is a mineral that the body needs for growth and development. Your body uses iron to make hemoglobin, a protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen from the lungs to all parts of the body, and myoglobin, a protein that provides oxygen to muscles. NIH fact sheet

    Nutrients per 100 g of “Syrup, Cane”, USDA FoodData Central.

Claims: EU Register of health claims (Regulation (EU) No 432/2012, © European Union, CC BY 4.0), shown only where the ingredient meets the claim's conditions (Regulation (EC) No 1924/2006). Nutrients: USDA FoodData Central (CC0). Facts: NIH Office of Dietary Supplements (public domain).

Cook safely

  • 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. First Course at Dinner or Luncheon.
  2. Use very ripe, mellow pears, or cooked pears.
  3. Cut the pears into small pieces.
  4. For eight glasses take about four tablespoon- fuls of sliced ginger root;
  5. eight tablespoonfuls of syrup from the ginger jar, and six or eight tablespoonfuls of sherry wine (Solera).
  6. Add a very little powdered sugar and mix carefully.
  7. Make very cold and serve in cocktail glasses.
  8. Do not use too much sugar.
  9. — R.
  10. H.
  11. L.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Chef's knife
  • Cutting board
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Credit

From The universal cook book (1909), character 2938 of the text, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/universalcookboo00phil

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.