Pears Cooked in Wine

1. Slice ginger and then julienne it into thin strips 2.Pour the water into a saucepan large enough to hold the 6 pears side by side. Add the sugar, the ginger, the lemon juice,the clove and the cinnamon. Stir until sugar is dissolved. Let cook 5 minutes. Strain and bring to boil again. 3. Peel pears leaving 1" of the stems. Cut off a slice in the bottom so pears can stand upright 4. Place pears in the boiling liquid and cook 30 minutes until tender. Add 5 tbs wine and cook another 10 minutes. 5. Tranfer pears to a serving dish or individual dishes. 6. Let liquid in pan reduce to 2 cups. 7. Add 1 more tbs wine. 8. Pour sauce over pears. 9. Serve with ice cream. May be served warm or cold. Recipe by: Criativa Magazine altered by Miriam P. Posvolsky Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #778 by Leon & Miriam Posvolsky <miriamp@pobox.com> on Sep 10, 1997