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For to make wardens in conserveYe Olde Recipe (Wardens were large baking pears) First make the syrup this way. Take a quart of Romney (wine) and add a pint of clear honey, and a pound and a half of sugar, and stir all together over the heat till ready and then leave to cool. This is a good syrup for many things and will keep a year or two. Then take the wardens and skin, but do not pare, and simmer them in good red wine so that they are well soaked and tender, and the wine is well soaked in to them. Then strain through a cloth or through a strainer into a vessel, adding the syrup until the vessel is almost full. Then add the powdered spices such as fine canel (a cinnamon-like spice), cinnamon, ginger and others. Put in boxes and keep as long as you like. By experience the correct amount for twenty or so wardens can be made. Modern version Ingredients: 10 oz (250ml) of good red wine, 5 oz (125ml) clear honey (orange-blossom honey was used), 4 oz (100g) sugar, 1 cinnamon stick, 1 teaspoon ground ginger, zest of 1 lemon, 4 large pears. Method: Heat all the ingredients except the pears slowly together to boiling point, stirring constantly. Skin the pears, leaving them whole. Add the pears to the syrup and simmer slowly until they are tender. Lay the pears in a dish, surrounding them with the syrup. Recipes taken from ‘A Proper Newe Booke of Cokerye’, Parker Library, Corpus Christi College , Cambridge .
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