SC - Pears in Wine Sauce questions....

[Dottie Elliott]

rebecca tants 7/28/97 3:57 PM

>Two questions regarding Pears in Wine Sauce - 
>
>1) I've been served this SO many times at feasts.  Is it documentable?

Yes.  I don't have the cookbook with me but I will look it up later.

>2) Regardless, can you make it in advance and freeze it (like for pennsic)?
>Or will that wreck the texture and I should just bite the bullet and cook
>them onsite?  (Not difficult, but the person who want's them wants LOTS of
>them to go with the LOTS of Onion Sops her husband wants, which can be made 
>in advance and frozen......  The less Pennsic time over a hot stove making
>large quantities of ostensible staples, the happier I will be :-)

I do this all the time. It freezes very well.  For those who can't 
consume alcohol, I have also cooked this particular dish substituting 
apricot nectar for the wine. It tastes wonderful and also freezes well.

Clarissa
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