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Volpine Pears cooked in wine

Added by luckgirl | Sun 05 Sep 2010 @ 07:47

Volpine Pears cooked in wine

Ingredients
300 ml Water
300 ml Red Wine
1 unit(s) Cinnamon Stick(s)
6 unit(s) Colves
60 gr Sugar
6 unit(s) Volpine Pears
1 piece(s) Lemon Peel

Method
Pell the pears and put it in a pan with wine, water, cinnamon, sugar, cloves and the lemon peel. Cook for 1 h. more or less. When are ready serve it with wine sauce. Conserve the wine sauce because you can drink it too.

Pere Volpine or Foxy Pears or Volpine Pears

this fruit are called Foxy pears because fox love this fruit!!
And are the category of \\\"forget fruit\\\" are typical of Emilia Romagna (Italy) and you can find it in some grocery!!It\\\'s like a little pear. In war time, in farmer\\\'s time and generaly was really an important fruit because wasn\\\'t expensive and grow spontaneus on hill. In past they boild it in water because there wasn\\\'t enough money, but now we cook it in wine and spices.

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