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Pears in Brandy

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United States

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

Ingredients 4 ingredients

  1. a cup of water
  2. a gill of white brandy
  3. a pound of white sugar
  4. 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.

Method

  1. Take fine rich, juicy, but not very ripe pears, put them into a sauce-pan with cold water to cover them ;
  2. set them over a gentle fire and simmer them until they will yield to the pressure of your linger, then take them into cold water;
  3. pare them with the greatest care, so that not a single defect may remain ;
  4. make a syrup of three quarters of a pound of white sugar for each pound of fruit, and a cup of water to each pound of sugar ;
  5. when the syrup is clear and boiling hot put in the pears, boil them gently until they are done through and clear, and the syrup is rich ;
  6. now take ihem with a skimmer into glass jars ;
  7. boil the syrup thick, then mix with it a gill of white brandy to each pint, pour it over the fruit and when cold put paper and a close fitting cover over.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Slotted spoon