Masked Pears Recipe

6 stewing pears.

3/4 pint water.

1 egg.

6 tablespoons bread crumbs.

24 lumps sugar.

1 inch cinnamon stick.

Jam.

1/2 ounce butter.



Make a syrup of the sugar and water, peel and hollow the pears (which

must remain whole), place them in the syrup, and stew gently one hour or

until tender; lift them out very carefully on to a plate and allow to

cool. Fill them with jam, roll in egg and bread crumbs, place in a

buttered dish, and bake for about twenty minutes. In the meantime, place

the cinnamon in the syrup and boil until it is reduced, place the pears

in a pretty dish, pour the syrup over them through a strainer, and allow

to cool.

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