Sauces/Gravy Pear Sauce

pear sauce.
(from The Great Western Cook Book, Or Table Receipts: Adapted to Western Housewifery, by Anna Maria Collins, 1857)

Ingredients:

1 gallon molasses​

1 quart cider vinegar​

14 lbs. pears​

race ginger for seasoning​

Instructions:

Take a gallon of molasses and a quart of cider vinegar; boil them together in a brass kettle, not failing to skim the compound well. Add fourteen pounds of peeled and quartered pears, and boil slowly till done. Do not cover them while boiling. Season with race ginger.​

 

[mofederal]

I have never eaten this one. I mean I am not a huge pear person. How does it taste?

 

[donna]

I haven't had pear sauce. But sounds like be good.

 

[Albert Sailhorst]

I've not had it either, but I think it sounds good!

 

[nitrofd]

I have never had or heard of this sauce.do you know when it says boil until done are they referring to the fruit itself or the sauce.if it is the sauce when it says till its done is thin or a reduced sauce.

 

[Albert Sailhorst]

I have never had or heard of this sauce.do you know when it says boil until done are they referring to the fruit itself or the sauce.if it is the sauce when it says till its done is thin or a reduced sauce.

I would say "reduced"....