Pears baked in Red Wine

Ingredients:

• 6 pears, peeled, cut in half and de-cored.
• ¾ pint red wine.
• 3tbs syrup.
• cinnamon stick.
• 1tbs. mace blades.
• 3 cloves.
• rind of one orange.

1. Place pears, cut side uppermost, in a casserole dish.
2. Drizzle syrup over pears.
3. Pour wine around pears.
4. Add cinnamon stick, mace blades, cloves and orange rind to wine.
5. Bake at 180°C/350°F/Mark 4 until the pears are cooked (15-20 mins.).
6. Place pears in serving dish and keep hot.
7. Concentrate the wine until it resembles a light syrup.
8. Remove cinnamon stick, mace blades, cloves and orange rind and pour resulting syrup over pears.
9. Serve warm.

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