Perys in Confyte
Pears in a honey sauce - contributed by Becky Hoover
  • 2-3 pounds of ripe pears
  • 1/3 cup honey
  • 1/3 cup sugar
  • ¼ teaspoon crushed anise seed
  • 1/8 teaspoon ground cloves
  • ¼ teaspoon galingale
  • 2 teaspoons cider vinegar
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  • ½ cup red wine (grape juice in the children's version)
Heat the honey, mixed with sugar, anise, cloves, and galingale until the sugar is completely dissolved.  Add cinnamon dissolved in vinegar and wine. Peel the fruit as thinly as possible and cut into slices, removing stems and
core.  Stir into syrup and poach gently for at least 30 minutes. Until tender but not mushy.

From An Ordinance of Pottage.

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Becky Hoover is a member of the Vanished Wood Cooks Guild, a SCA household of cooking & food enthusiasts from the North-West Chicago, IL, area.

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