Poached Pears
What you need
- 4 pears
- half cup sugar
- cinnamon
- half a lemon
Salt, pepper, water and oil don’t count. Mom always had those.
What you do
Peel the pears, leaving the stalks. Simmer gently in water with sugar, cinnamon and lemon for twenty-five minutes, turning now and then.
How it feels to make
They go translucent at the edges and look like something from a restaurant.
Mom wrote on the back
Turn them every so often or they come out striped.