Moulded Pears

Ingredients

• 4 large pears or 6 small ones
• 8 cloves
• sugar to taste
• water
• a small piece of cinnamon
• 1/4 pint raisin wine
• a strip of lemon-peel
• the juice of 1/2 lemon
• 1/2 oz gelatine

Instructions

1. Peel and cut the pears into quarters;
2. put them into a jar with 3/4 pint of water, cloves, cinnamon, and sufficient sugar to sweeten the whole nicely;
3. cover down the top of the jar, and bake the pears in a gentle oven until perfectly tender, but do not allow them to break.
4. When done, lay the pears in a plain mould, which should be well wetted, and boil 1/2 pint of the liquor the pears were baked in with the wine, lemon-peel, strained juice, and gelatine.
5. Let these ingredients boil quickly for 5 minutes, then strain the liquid warm over the pears;
6. put the mould in a cool place, and when the jelly is firm, turn it out on a glass dish.