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Title: Meat Pears In Broth
Categories: Veal, Pork
Yield: 6 Servings

8 oz Ground veal or pork
1/4 c Dried breadcrumbs
1 lg Egg
1 tb Thyme; finely chopped
2 tb Parsley; finely chopped
1/2 ts Salt
12 sm Green seedless grapes
12 Sage or parsley leaves; with
-stems
6 c Chicken stock; warm

Renaissance chefs enjoyed delighting guests with amusing culinary
tricks. They would sculpt all sorts of shapes using meat, marzipan,
and dough, and even go so far as to hide live birds in a pie so that
when the pie was cut into the birds would fly out. The rhyme "four
and twenty blackbirds" was true!

Here meatballs are shaped like tiny pears. There is also an added
surprise inside--each meatball is filled with a grape, which adds a
great fresh taste and nice crunch. Add some ready-made canned stock
and you have a simply delicious, simple Renaissance feast!

Combine the veal, breadcrumbs, egg, thyme, parsley, and salt in a
bowl. Divide the mixture into 12 equal portions. Wrap each portion of
meat around a grape and form a pear shape.

Preheat the broiler. Place the pears upright on a well-greased pan,
and broil 4 to 5" from the flame for 4 minutes, or until done. Using a
toothpick, gently embed a sage leaf into the top of each pear.

Place 2 "pears" in each serving bowl and gently top with the warm
stock. Serve.

Recipe by Esther French

Recipe FROM: <https://www.folger.edu/blogs/shakespeare-and-beyond/
francine-segan-renaissance-cooking-food-historian-recipe-pears-broth/>

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