Ingredients

• 3/4 pint dry red wine
• 4 ounces sugar
• 4 cloves
• 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon or piece cinnamon bark
• 6 large, firm pears
• Gilded bay leaves, to decorate

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Instructions

1. Place wine, sugar and spices in saucepan, and heat until sugar dissolves. Peel the pears, leaving the stalks on, but remove the core from the bottom using a thin, sharp knife or a potato peeler. Put the pears into the syrup and simmer gently for about 20 minutes or until tender. Remove the pears to a dish, and reduce the syrup by half by boiling rapidly. Spoon syrup over pears. Cool, and decorate with gilded bay leaves stuck in by the stalk.