Hot Curried Fruit

* Exported from MasterCook *

HOT CURRIED FRUIT

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Serving Size : 12 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Fruits Side Dishes
Kooknet

Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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12 Ripe Pears
3 1/2 c Sugar
3 sm Cinnamon Sticks
10 Whole Cloves
2 Lemons -- juice of
12 Oranges
1 Winter Melon
1 bn Red Grapes -- cut into small
-clusters
1 Lemon -- sliced
1 tb Curry Powder
1/2 c Crystallized Ginger
-julienned

Peel pears, leaving stems intact. Place them in a
large, nonaluminum pot with enough water to cover. Add
sugar, spices and lemon juice. Cover pears with a
round of wax paper cut to fit interior of pot. Bring
to a boil, reduce to simmer and cook until pears can
be easily pierced with a knife.

Slice away skin and pith from oranges. Remove pears to
a serving bowl and add enough syrup to cover. Place
oranges in cooking liquid and simmer for 15 minutes or
until tender. Peel and seed melon. Cut into long, 1"
wide strips. Add melon strips to the poaching oranges
and simmer for 5 minutes. Remove to serving bowl. Add
grapes and lemon slices to poaching liquid and simmer
for 3 minutes. Remove to bowl.

Add curry powder to liquid and whisk to dissolve.
Cook syrup until reduced by half. Strain through a
double thickness of dampened cheesecloth. Drain away
any juices that have collected in serving bowl and
pour syrup over fruits. Serve fruit with a little of
the crystallized ginger sprinkled over each portion.

Source: Medford Mail Tribune, 23 August 1994 Typed by
Katherine Smith Kook-Net: The Shadow Zone IV - Stinson
Beach, CA



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